Into the deep dark wood...

Jane Muir
Wednesday, October 24, 2001

Sometimes the children who would most benefit from group storytelling are the ones left out of it. Jane Muir explains how to bring them in 'Poor cockerel had forgotten how to crow...' begins the afternoon story in Blackbird Leys College Day Nursery in Oxford, but that's not really the beginning. It begins with senior nursery nurse Nicola Cherry giving out the story mats, one to each child (and some made of carpet samples!).

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