Thinking about Christmas by Susie

Today at Openstorytellers we prepared our secret Santa and decided Christmas lunch and wrote notes.
All the whole team will be there to celebrate and it will be relaxing and i'm looking forward to a party after all our hard work this year.
Next week a famous story teller is comming to vist, his name is Taffy Tomas and he is going to share Christmas stories with us.  The Openstorytellers team will be perform Days and Knights in the Kitchen and hopefully he'll give us some tips
I'm looking forward to Christmas Day and secret santa and hopefully opening Christmas presents.

Thursday music workshop Susan heather Ellen dayman-johns

I like to listen to music and play with instruments

I think the instruments were therapeuhic because they matched sounds to feelings.

 i went to wells and did  a music session with jane and i enjoyed it. Tim, Robin, Katie, Clemma, Brain, Vicky and Lucy were there . They are my friends ,i enjoyed their company. The music was sending me to sleep because it was relaxing and i would love to go again.
The story i'm working on is gareth off orkney. He left home because he's really keen to become a knight. He folowed his brothers and worked in the kitchen as a boy and got bullied. He  faced his fears and went through to the dark forest to face the kinghts who kidnapped leonora.
She is beutiful lady and falls in love with Gareth.
Gareth spares the red  knight and gets married to Leonora and  this is how he becomes kinght.


 

Gareth of Orkney Robin Meader

Gareth wants to be like his brothers as all of his brothers are Knights of the Round table. He travels from Scotland to England. Its a long way to  travel to Camelot where he wants to be knighted. We  don't know where abouts in England  Camelot existed but we  do know that the Sword   in the Stone was found at  different sites  in England. One version of the story is that a maiden  threw  the sword to where King Arthur was, over a lake.This leads  us to think that Camelot was by a lake. We think that this lake could have been Chew valley or Wetlands in Taunton so Camelot may have been Cadbury Castle in Glastonbury.

This proves that  Gareth has independence in moving from Scotland to England.  People can travel now  on a  public bus anywhere in the Uk with their bus  pass but in Gareth's time Gareth had a     brave heartt because he travelled on horse back from Orkney Castle to Camelot.

I remember a film called brave heart with Mel Gibson which show the strength of the celtic people.                            

Brians blog. Brian Marshall

I went to the carnival on Saturday. I saw lots of floats and I thought they were lovely. They were lots of different colours. I stood by the cornerhouse and I had a drink in the pub afterwards. I enjoyed the carnival because I was with friends and it was a lovely evening and it didn't rain atall!

I talked to my friends about days and Knights of the Round table. I told them that it was cold and horrible in the kitchen in the story and I said that the boy was stinky. They said he would never be a Knight!.

The boy believed that one day he would be a Knight.When I told my friends about the story, they clapped at me. I said to my friends 'Have you got any thoughts about how I can be the King?'. Some of my friends had some good ideas.

Guest speaker for the day Suzie Daymon- Johns

Today we had a guest speaker. My favourite part of the day was hearing the spider story. I thought that Gem, our story teller  was really good. Gem was a really expressive story teller. He made it fun!.

starting a new term Tim Lumley- Smith

Last  monday we started back at open story tellers after the summer .
I was very excited at seeing every one and we talked about our summer.
We started looking  at a new story called days and knights of the kitchen and we talked about what the kitchen was like. We said it was noisy, smelly, filthy, and many other things.  We are looking forward to this story.
 

Frome Festival Tim Lumley- Smith

on Monday the 9th July we took part in the Frome Festival .
It was good to do so people in Frome got to see us and became aware of us.
It was  an enjoyable day for me.  I think everyone enjoyed it.

This is a photo of our Business meeting on the last day of term.

This photo is of our volunteers holding their certificates

Volunteering Lucy Hayward

I work as a volunteer at Openstorytellers. I thouroughly enjoy my work as it is a stimulating environment with a creative framework for people with learning disabilities to develop their confidence and learn new skills.

I am priveleged as a volunteer to have the opportunity to feed into the creative loop of story telling whilst also learning more myself about how people with learning disabilities interact and develop their skills.

I am helping to encourage our trainees at Openstorytellers to develop a blog so that we can all stretch our creative skills further to share our experiences.

Good luck to everyone taking part!

My feedback on updownboy Katie Branch

Up down boy was about a boy whose mum encounraged him to go to college.The boy had down's syndrome his mum wanted him to have a job  and explore the world.She was putting pressure on him.


I feel i am in the same position as the boy about a decision ive made today.It  helped me to realise how important it  is to make  my own decision  and that the decision  is up to me.

WE WELCOMED THE MISFITS TO OUR COMPANY Clemma Fleet

• To make up our tree
• Misfits came
• We performed our story
• Asked the Misfits some questions on what they do as a job
• We swoped some ideas.

I felt telling the story of Jackie and the sunflower seed went really well. And i thought the Misfits enjoyed it today,

I thought katy was good to bring in cakes for all the openstorytellers to share was good thanks to katy.

I thought the Misfits were a good Company
and i would like to see them perform there story.And like to see what they do as a group,

I thought we all Benefitted and really helped each other as a team.

Why should we blog? Who should blog?

Looking forward to tomorrow when we present the new blog to the team and decide how best to use it?!

Clemma and katie and tim are learning our new story called Ceridwens Cauldron. my role is the Godess and Mother of 2 chidren, i am looking forward to practising more on the story.