Epic Learning Podcast

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.

Brer Bunny, the trickster hero of southern USA, joins us this week to help you explore the sensitive issues of Anti-Bullying Week in a safe yet hilarious environment. And along the way, your young learners can master letter writing, science experiments, and more!

To discuss this week's tale, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS-KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Laura, headteacher of an International School in Lanzarote.

*EPIC NOTICE*
We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via pod.fan/epictales

If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

Thank you!

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"Brer Bunny and the Tar Bunny" excerpt | 1:50

Learning Outcomes
For more detailed learning outcomes, check out the Chapter Headings at epictales.buzzsprout.com

• All-age PSHCE: kindness; friendship; people can change; making good choices (6:59) | reforming characters; bullying; consequences; nobody’s perfect; people can change; being thoughtful (8:39) | dealing with emotions; shame; guilt; shifting behaviours (9:55)
• All-Age Literacy: trickster tales (7:42) | Brer Rabbit; stories as culture; Disney’s “The Song of the South” (14:43) | letter writing; talking through disagreements (28:20) | continuing the story; posters of classroom agreements and rules (31:27)
• All-age Science, DT, and PSHCE: trusting your own decisions; self-confidence; conformity; Asch’s experiment; Derren Brown (10:38) | designing and building; evaluating; responding to feedback (39:11)
• 4–7yrs Literacy, Science, and PSHCE: listening; fact in fiction; animal noises; phonics; mindfulness (19:40)
• 4–7yrs Science, Geography, and PSHCE: classification; jobs that people do; maps (22:05)
• 4–7yrs Literacy and Drama: inferring from the text; dialogue and direct speech; acting out characters; role play (23:59)
• 4–7yrs Science: properties of materials; science investigations; designing experiments; sticky materials (29:58)
• 7–9yrs Literacy: formal and informal letter writing (33:39) | diary writing; newspaper reports; letter writing; tracking emotions (35:11) | predicting outcomes in a story; inferring from a text; conscience alleys (36:29)
• 7–9yrs Science and PSHCE: classification; jobs people do (35:00)
• 7–9yrs History: Greek gods and goddesses; Greek myths; Ancient Greece; mythical creatures; Aborigine Dreamtime (38:13)
• All-age Numeracy: weights; units of measurement; length (39:59)
• 7–11yrs ICT and PSHCE: video editing; spreading positivity (45:24)
• All-age PE: yoga; physical movement; “Bunny Breathing” (48:11) | gymnastics; bunny hopping (50:26)

We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected]

We mark Armistice Day with the tale of a WWI British Corporal who injures his foot in No Man's Land and has no way of escaping by himself. He can hear soldiers getting closer – but are they friends coming to his rescue, or enemies coming to end his story?

This heartwarming story bears remarkable similarities to The Parable of the Good Samaritan...

Based on the family history of actor Jane Bower, adapted with permission by Chip Colquhoun. Read by Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com).

Illustration by Heather Zeta Rose.

For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including numeracy and PE, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast.

This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Jane Bower and Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Heather Zeta Rose 2021.

Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

We mark Armistice Day with the tale of a WWI British Corporal who injures his foot in No Man's Land and has no way of escaping by himself. He can hear soldiers getting closer – but are they friends coming to his rescue, or enemies coming to end his story?

This heartwarming story bears remarkable similarities to The Parable of the Good Samaritan...

Based on the family history of actor Jane Bower, adapted with permission by Chip Colquhoun. Read by Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com).

Illustration by Heather Rose.

*EPIC NOTICE*
We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via pod.fan/epictales

If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

Thank you!

For easy and fun ways to link this poem to a wide variety of learning outcomes including RE and PE, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Find all our podcasts at epictales.co.uk – along with further storytelling and learning resources, including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children.

This audio is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence.

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.

This week's Epic is a true tale of bravery from World War One, shared with us by actor and teacher trainer Jane Bower. Her grandfather's story bears remarkable similarities to the Parable of the Good Samaritan – and our panel see it as the perfect opportunity to extol the virtues of a holistic curriculum.

To discuss her story, Jane is joined by Epic storyteller Chip; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Laura, headteacher of an International School in Lanzarote.

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"Herbert's Foot" excerpt | 2:39

Learning Outcomes
For more detailed learning outcomes, check out the Chapter Headings at epictales.buzzsprout.com

• All-age PSHCE: hope (7:24) | who is my neighbour/enemy? (9:23) | the nature of war; pacifism (12:38) | coping with grief and loss; the Parable of The Good Samaritan; classic fairy tales; leaving the “scary moments” in; Disney’s “Finding Nemo” (17:38)
• All-Age Literacy: diary writing (10:51)
• All-age History and PSHCE: World War One; World War Two; roles in the army (14:27) | life at home during the wars (16:10) | making good choices; conscription (41:14)
• 4–7yrs Literacy, History, Drama, and PSHCE: historical re-enactment; roleplay; World War One; trenches; No Man’s Land; conscription; peer pressure; inferring from a text; making predictions; twists in the tale; making links between texts; suspense (27:08)
• 4–7yrs History: Florence Nightingale (30:58) | what is the past? (40:22)
• 4–7yrs Geography: comparing different countries; European countries (37:54)
• All-age PSHCE: equality; diversity; compassion; Kingdom 1000 (39:06)
• 7–11yrs History, PE, and PSHCE: Christmas 1914; football; friendship (43:20)
• 7–11yrs Literacy and History: communication technologies; the importance of writing (50:06) | soundscapes; onomatopoeia (53:39)
• 7–11yrs History, Core, and PSHCE: a soldier’s life; transferable skills (51:04) | First Aid; empathy; verbal and non-verbal communication (53:39) 
• All-age History, Music, and PSHCE: staying positive in difficult times; attitude of gratitude; wartime songs (56:48)
• All-age Literacy, Numeracy, Geography, History, Core, PE, and PSHCE: famous people in history; prisoners of war; perseverance and determination; the importance of holistic/cross-curricular learning; division; rationing; plotting routes; survival techniques; the value of education; responsibility (59:17) | rewriting song lyrics (1:04:07)

We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected]

Stained glass illustration: Dave Hingley.

This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Jane Bower and Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.

This week's Epic is a true tale of bravery from World War One, shared with us by actor and teacher trainer Jane Bower. Her grandfather's story bears remarkable similarities to the Parable of the Good Samaritan – and our panel see it as the perfect opportunity to extol the virtues of a holistic curriculum.

To discuss her story, Jane is joined by Epic storyteller Chip; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Laura, headteacher of an International School in Lanzarote.

*EPIC NOTICE*
We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via pod.fan/epictales

If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

Thank you!

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"Herbert's Foot" excerpt | 2:39

Learning Outcomes
For more detailed learning outcomes, check out the Chapter Headings at epictales.buzzsprout.com

• All-age PSHCE: hope (7:24) | who is my neighbour/enemy? (9:23) | the nature of war; pacifism (12:38) | coping with grief and loss; the Parable of The Good Samaritan; classic fairy tales; leaving the “scary moments” in; Disney’s “Finding Nemo” (17:38)
• All-Age Literacy: diary writing (10:51)
• All-age History and PSHCE: World War One; World War Two; roles in the army (14:27) | life at home during the wars (16:10) | making good choices; conscription (41:14)
• 4–7yrs Literacy, History, Drama, and PSHCE: historical re-enactment; roleplay; World War One; trenches; No Man’s Land; conscription; peer pressure; inferring from a text; making predictions; twists in the tale; making links between texts; suspense (27:08)
• 4–7yrs History: Florence Nightingale (30:58) | what is the past? (40:22)
• 4–7yrs Geography: comparing different countries; European countries (37:54)
• All-age PSHCE: equality; diversity; compassion; Kingdom 1000 (39:06)
• 7–11yrs History, PE, and PSHCE: Christmas 1914; football; friendship (43:20)
• 7–11yrs Literacy and History: communication technologies; the importance of writing (50:06) | soundscapes; onomatopoeia (53:39)
• 7–11yrs History, Core, and PSHCE: a soldier’s life; transferable skills (51:04) | First Aid; empathy; verbal and non-verbal communication (53:39) 
• All-age History, Music, and PSHCE: staying positive in difficult times; attitude of gratitude; wartime songs (56:48)
• All-age Literacy, Numeracy, Geography, History, Core, PE, and PSHCE: famous people in history; prisoners of war; perseverance and determination; the importance of holistic/cross-curricular learning; division; rationing; plotting routes; survival techniques; the value of education; responsibility (59:17) | rewriting song lyrics (1:04:07)

We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected]

King George III loves bonfires! And he's sure to love this one especially, since it will send George the builder to build a house for his father in heaven. But George the butler is happy too, as this means Mrs George will need a new husband...

You'll need ears as sharp as a sparkler in this hilarious yet mysterious Epic Tale!

Based on the Tibetan  folk tale of "The Three Genjias", adapted by Chip Colquhoun. Read by David Ault (davidault.co.uk).

Illustration by Heather Zeta Rose.

For easy and fun ways to link this story to a wide variety of learning outcomes including numeracy and PE, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast.

This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Heather Zeta Rose 2021.

Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

King George III loves bonfires! And he's sure to love this one especially, since it will send George the builder to build a house for his father in heaven. But George the butler is happy too, as this means Mrs George will need a new husband...

You'll need ears as sharp as a sparkler in this hilarious yet mysterious Epic Tale!

Based on the Tibetan  folk tale of "The Three Genjias", adapted by Chip Colquhoun. Read by David Ault (davidault.co.uk).

Illustration by Heather Rose.

*EPIC NOTICE*
We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via pod.fan/epictales

If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

Thank you!

For easy and fun ways to link this poem to a wide variety of learning outcomes including science and numeracy, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Find all our podcasts at epictales.co.uk – along with further storytelling and learning resources, including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children.

This audio is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence.

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.

This week's Epic marks Bonfire Night with a Tibetan folk tale relocated to Georgian England – and we mean really George-ian! Discover how this fun tale full of plotting and besotting can help your children conquer democracy, speed calculations, symmetry, and more!

This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS/KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a KS2 teacher also from Buckinghamshire.

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"To Heaven and Back" excerpt | 2:38

Learning Outcomes
For more detailed learning outcomes, check out the Chapter Headings at epictales.buzzsprout.com

• All-age PSHCE: equality (8:46) | The Golden Rule (13:50) | individuality; justice (16:00) | making the most of your time (35:30) | ambitions (37:51) | what is heaven? (51:34)
• All-Age Literacy: story maps; storytelling; using voices and/or body positions to represent different characters; illustrating to help visualize characters (10:30)
• All-age History and PSHCE: big questions; death and loss; Bonfire Night; Guy Fawkes; differences between then and now (14:27)
• All-age Numeracy: maths problems; speed, distance and time; volume (40:34)
• 4–7yrs Literacy, Science, Core and Art: calligraphy; handwriting; presentation; materials; fine motor skills (22:37)
• 4–7yrs RE and PSHCE: everyone is entitled to their own opinion and beliefs (24:44)
• 4–7yrs DT and History: designing and building; comparing then and now; materials (28:23)
• 5–7yrs Literacy and History: The Great Fire of London; news reports; comprehension; inferring from a text (20:39)
• 5–9yrs History and PSHCE: what makes a significant person? (35:01)
• 7–9yrs History: Guy Fawkes (33:23)
• 7–9yrs Literacy, Science, and History: the ear; how sound travels; verbal & non-verbal communication (34:23)
• 7–9yrs Literacy: formal and informal letters; invitations (38:24)
• 7–9yrs Literacy and PSHCE: prediction; speaking kindly; giving good advice (39:24)
• 9–11yrs Numeracy, DT, and History: area; perimeter; house design; Georgian design; symmetry (42:39)
• 9–11yrs PSHCE: citizenship; democracy (42:59)
• 9–11yrs Literacy: diary writing (44:09) | report writing; scriptwriting (44:57) | creating distinct characters (45:30)
• 9–11yrs DT and History: architecture; landscape artists (46:34)
• 9–11yrs Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, and Modern Foreign Languages: writing in codes; writing in other languages (47:47)

We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email [email protected]

Stained glass illustration: Dave Hingley.

This recording copyright © Epic Tales 2021. Story copyright © Chip Colquhoun 2021. Illustration copyright © Dave Hingley 2021.

Epic Learning has had one mahoosive facelift! Search your podcast player for "Happily Ever Teaching", where you can now hear subject-specific off-the-shelf lesson plans 4 days a week every week! Get there before the Epic Learning Podcast disappears... Search for "Happily Ever Teaching" or visit epictales.co.uk/teachhappily

Join Epic storytellers and creative teachers as they discuss how to draw out learning outcomes from this week's Epic Tale with fun and engaging activities.

This week's Epic marks Bonfire Night with a Tibetan folk tale relocated to Georgian England – and we mean really George-ian! Discover how this fun tale full of plotting and besotting can help your children conquer democracy, speed calculations, symmetry, and more!

This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Helen, an EYFS/KS1 teacher from Buckinghamshire; Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; and Rob, a KS2 teacher also from Buckinghamshire.

*EPIC NOTICE*
We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via pod.fan/epictales

If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

Thank you!

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"To Heaven and Back" excerpt | 2:38

Learning Outcomes
For more detailed learning outcomes, check out the Chapter Headings at epictales.buzzsprout.com

• All-age PSHCE: equality (8:46) | The Golden Rule (13:50) | individuality; justice (16:00) | making the most of your time (35:30) | ambitions (37:51) | what is heaven? (51:34)
• All-Age Literacy: story maps; storytelling; using voices and/or body positions to represent different characters; illustrating to help visualize characters (10:30)
• All-age History and PSHCE: big questions; death and loss; Bonfire Night; Guy Fawkes; differences between then and now (14:27)
• All-age Numeracy: maths problems; speed, distance and time; volume (40:34)
• 4–7yrs Literacy, Science, Core and Art: calligraphy; handwriting; presentation; materials; fine motor skills (22:37)
• 4–7yrs RE and PSHCE: everyone is entitled to their own opinion and beliefs (24:44)
• 4–7yrs DT and History: designing and building; comparing then and now; materials (28:23)
• 5–7yrs Literacy and History: The Great Fire of London; news reports; comprehension; inferring from a text (20:39)
• 5–9yrs History and PSHCE: what makes a significant person? (35:01)
• 7–9yrs History: Guy Fawkes (33:23)
• 7–9yrs Literacy, Science, and History: the ear; how sound travels; verbal & non-verbal communication (34:23)
• 7–9yrs Literacy: formal and informal letters; invitations (38:24)
• 7–9yrs Literacy and PSHCE: prediction; speaking kindly; giving good advice (39:24)
• 9–11yrs Numeracy, DT, and History: area; perimeter; house design; Georgian design; symmetry (42:39)
• 9–11yrs PSHCE: citizenship; democracy (42:59)
• 9–11yrs Literacy: diary writing (44:09) | report writing; scriptwriting (44:57) | creating distinct characters (45:30)
• 9–11yrs DT and History: architecture; landscape artists (46:34)
• 9–11yrs Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, and Modern Foreign Languages: writing in codes; writing in other languages (47:47)

We'd love to hear how you get on with these ideas! Please leave us a review with your favourite podcast app, find us on social media @EpicTalesST, or email [email protected]

Have a learning outcome you'd like us to cover in a future episode? Email podcast@epictale

To mark All Saints Day on 1st November, we have a true story written by a saint about two saints! At the start of this story, Caedmon is forbidden to sing the songs of the monks and nuns in case he lose his job – or worse, his head. But then songs start appearing in his head, and he can't help singing them out...

Based on an English folk tale adapted by Chip Colquhoun. Read by Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com).

Illustration by Heather Rose.

*EPIC NOTICE*
We're proud to have produced these podcasts completely free for the benefit of schools and homelearning families since the start of the first UK lockdown. However, like many businesses, Epic is now struggling to survive this pandemic.

Can you help by sending us just £20? We only need to raise £200 to continue these podcasts in the New Year. If you find them of value, please consider donating via pod.fan/epictales

If you can't help financially, we'll still be enormously grateful if you could support us with a review on your favourite podcast app – or on your favourite social media site, tagging us in with @EpicTalesST

Thank you!

For easy and fun ways to link this poem to a wide variety of learning outcomes including science and numeracy, make sure you also listen to our Epic Learning podcast. Find all our podcasts at epictales.co.uk – along with further storytelling and learning resources, including storytelling videos and creative challenges for your children.

This audio is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 Licence.