Josh Gaillemin
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Josh has been a storyteller since 1998, originally working with the Horniman Museum in SE London, as part of the Education and Outreach team. While continuing to perform frequently at the Horniman, he is also a regular storyteller at WOMAD, has performed at the Victoria & Albert Museum, for the Story of London Festival, Bath Literature Festival, the Wallace Collection and visits schools nationally for storytelling performance and creative and literacy based activities and workshops.Josh is co-founder of TheWholeStory, who provide storytelling-based workshops and training to Business and the Museum & Heritage sector, as a tool to understand, develop and communicate ideas and actions. Josh has worked with the education teams of the Horniman Museum, the Geffrey Museum, the V&A Museum of Childhood, the National Maritime Museum and the National Trust. Whilst providing training and INSET for Islington and Westminster LEAs, he has worked within schools through A New Direction (formerly Creative Partnerships), and visits many schools and nurseries across London, the South East and beyond for storytelling performance and activities. Josh tells exciting traditional folktales from around the world, and his performances vary in length and content depending on age, group size and required outcome: Nursery and Reception performances last 20 - 30 minutes, are highly interactive and include helping to build Josh’s stories, hearing stories with visual aids of picture-books and taking part in popular songs and nursery rhymes. KS1 typically last 30-minutes, and can take place either on the classroom carpet or in the hall. Following the telling of a couple of animated, exciting and engaging animal stories, children often enjoy drawing their favourite characters and moments from the stories with their teacher. Year 3+4 is 45-minutes of exciting trickster tales and creation myths from many cultures. This can take place either on the classroom carpet or in the hall, and is a great model for the pupils to experience narrative structure and descriptive, detailed content. Year 5+6 have their own set of stories, uniquely chosen for this age range: these can either be told as 45-60 minutes of performance or up to 90-minutes with follow-on workshops. The workshop combined with the performance, explores the difference between spoken and written English and models and highlights the advantage of including sensory descriptive detail within narratives. The workshops conclude with the pupils becoming an Author, each writing their own ending to a folktale, before a few of them become Storytellers to share their endings with their classmates. All stories are chosen to ensure they are appropriate to each audience, from Nursery to Year 8. Typically in a day it is possible to have 3 sessions in the morning and 2 after lunch, Josh does his best to fill the day for you, to see as many forms as he can, without losing quality. Josh prefers to see individual forms in their classrooms, but can accommodate groups of up to 60 in the hall if required. INSET, workshops and training for teachers: Josh offers practical applications and approaches to storytelling. By experiencing and reflecting on these approaches participants are able to enhance interaction between and with children, leading them to an enriching, confidence and ability building experience; involving vocabulary, writing, expression, language, creativity, emotional intelligence, sociability and thinking. The outcomes of the training can be used to: - develop language and writing through speaking and listening - highlight, model, and explore issues and behaviour - introduce and model sentence or story structure, vocabulary and language - initiate creative interaction, communication and play between children - animate and reinvigorate story time and story creation. - model and mirror physical, facial and vocal expression Testimonials: “The children were captivated by the stories Josh told and loved his animated humour.” St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School “A very enjoyable day. I can still smell the rotting eggs!” Isleworth and Syon Boys. “All the children were hooked from beginning to end.” Our Lady and St. Philip Neri Infant School “Josh was fantastic. He really motivated and inspired the students.” Overton Grange School ‘Josh’s visit was excellent. All the children and staff have given me very positive feedback. Josh was such a lovely person who kept the children and staff enthralled with his stories’. Larkman Primary ‘All the children were engaged, motivated through story. Excellent day’s visit. A pleasant flexible person’. St Georges, Warminster
Teachers’ Resources: Explore the world of your author through our exciting one page class handouts. Click on The World of Josh Gaillemin,
