Story Explorer:
Drama workshop
✓ Nursery - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional drama facilitator
✓ Literacy, World Book Week
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Experience stories first-hand using the skills and techniques of professional theatre
Story Explorer workshops empower children from Nursery to Year 6 to explore stories first-hand, by embodying the characters and reimagining its world.
With the guidance of a professional actor, the children use drama exercises and activities to step into the story, exploring its setting and imagining how the characters move, feel and think.
Ideal for World Book Week and available throughout the year, this experience helps children develop essential skills in oracy, presentation, and confidence — with clear benefits for their writing, speaking, and listening back in the classroom.
The class-by-class sessions are differentiated for EYFS, KS1 and KS2. Younger children will get to experience the story with the facilitator in-role as one of the characters, while older children have the opportunity to recreate parts of the story and to discuss and debate the decisions of the characters. Each drama workshop can last between 35 and 90 minutes depending on your chosen tale, and we can work with children from EYFS to KS2.
Created by:
Abigail Rosser
Find out more about our creatives.
- We work with children in their usual classes.
- Sessions are 35 - 40 minutes for Reception, 35 - 60 minutes for KS1 and 40 - 90 minutes for KS2.
- We can work with up to six classes per day.
- To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session.
- To work with more than seven classes we can visit across multiple days.
- We will send you a suggested timetable when you enquire and we can work with you to create a timetable that works for your school day.
World Book Day will be celebrated on Thursday 5 March 2026, and between 23 February and 13 March, we’ll be running workshops inspired by our specially chosen selection of fairytales. For more information, please head to our dedicated Book Week page.
- To think critically about the story by experiencing it first-hand.
- To expand vocabulary and develop a stronger command of spoken English.
- To develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional actor-facilitator.
- To explore different ways of communicating, both verbally and physically.
Watch us in action!
Get a flavour of the West End in Schools experience with our new workshop highlights video.
Book Options
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2, UKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2
Traditional Tale
LKS2, UKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2,
Traditional Tale
UKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2
Traditional Tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1, LKS2
