Kiltearn primary pupils re–imagine traditional stories at Evanton Community Woods with launch of storybook
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Kiltearn Primary School pupils celebrate the launch of their own storybook, featuring their illustrations which re–tell traditional stories.
The 24-page full colour storybook features the drawings of pupils from P3–P5, to illustrate the traditional stories they've learnt in the Evanton Community Wood with local artists.
The storybook was one of several projects hosted by Evanton Community Wood, to celebrate Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022.
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The series started with a Memory Cushion project with the ongoing Friday Futures group for those living with dementia. This was led by local artist Lizzie MacDougall and storyteller, who also ran the Woodland Storybook project. Other local storytellers and musicians involved the project includes: Bob Pegg, Sitakumari, Christina Stewart, Siannie Moodie, and Creeping Toad aka Gordon Maclellan from Derbyshire.
Another short project is underway for the older pupils of Kiltearn Primary, lead by Trish Matthews from Brora. This project will be based around the trees of the Gaelic Alphabet; and Bob Pegg will close the series with a session of seasonal stories, riddles and music in the Woodland Cabin as part of the family orientated Winter Woodland Walk on the early evening of December 21.
In addition, the local countryside ranger has made been making good use of the woodland for an extended series of stories by the fire.
Adrian Clark, secretary of Evanton Community Wood, said:"The response to the story projects has been excellent, it's been great to see traditional stories being re-told and re–imagined by the children and indeed by those of all ages. We are pleased that Evanton Community Wood has been able to play a big part in The Year of Stories and to stimulate people’s imagination and their enjoyment of the woodland”.
