Epic Learning Podcast

1st Oct 2020 is National Poetry Day! To celebrate, the Oxford Owl's "Traditional Tales" storytellers have co-written a truly Epic poem – starring several fairy tale favourites. How many can you spot and/or recognise?

Written by Amy Robinson and Chip Colquhoun; read by David Ault (davidault.co.uk) and 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 © Chip Colquhoun and Amy Robinson 2021. Illustration copyright © Heather Zeta Rose 2021.

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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.

A wide range of common fairy tale favourites including "Goldilocks" and "Beauty and the Beast" are collected in verse to mark National Poetry Day. Discover how his poem can help your children conquer onomatopoeia, changing materials, and much 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.

Find full contents at epictales.co.uk/story/forestpoem

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"Through the Forest" Excerpt | 1:25

All-age Learning Outcomes
• Literacy: Alfred Noyes "Sherwood"; Robin Hood; inferring from the text; King Arthur (3:17) presenting stories in different formats; dramatising; Anthony Brown's "Into the Forest"; storyboarding; new vocabulary; sound walks; poetry treasure hunts; thinking about your audience; hot seating; guessing games; Twenty Questions (43:04)
• PSHCE: inclusion; sharing stories; where stories come from (9:21) | Chris Judge's "The Lonely Beast"; how we perceive ourselves and others (44:30)
• Numeracy, Science, Art: Nick Sharratt's "The Foggy Foggy Forest"; shadows; measuring; shadow puppets (35:16)

Learning outcomes for ages 4–7
• Science, Geography, Art: maps; tree identification (10:37)
• Core, PSHCE: problem-solving; Janet & Allan Ahlberg's "The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters" (14:07)
• History and Art: medieval times; "Take One Picture"; differences between now and then; the way people lived (14:52)
• Literacy: new vocabulary; repeated phrases; onomatopoeia (15:50) | common fairy tales; characters and motivations (25:29)
• Music: rhythm; pulse (19:38)
• Numeracy, Geography, PE: positional language; following directions; marking a trail; maps; orienteering; your local area (20:48)
• DT: designing & making a gingerbread house; working to a brief; joining things; building; evaluating (21:47)
• Art: drawing characters; shading; texture; art techniques (22:35)
• Numeracy, Science, DT: capacity; recipes; changing materials (24:28)
• Art, PSHCE: describing personalities; drawing characters (27:24)
• 6–9yrs Science: parts of a flower (32:00)

Learning outcomes for ages 7–11
• 7–9yrs Literacy: writing poems and verses; fast poems; repeated phrases (32:32) | Kennings; riddles; decoding texts (37:19)
• 7–9yrs DT, Art: JK Rowling's "Harry Potter"; creating a forest (37:38)
• 7–9yrs History: Ancient Greece; myths & legends; adapting settings (40:09)
• 7–9yrs Modern Foreign Languages: introducing French, German and/or Italian; comparing cultures (40:26)
• 7–11yrs Literacy: newspaper reports (45:06)
• 9–11yrs ICT, DT, Art: animation; LEGO; design & building (45:51)

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 and Amy Robinson 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

Manmade lobal warming is an urgent issue today – but did you know the ancients were telling folk tales about it centuries ago?

In this week's Epic Storytime, a woodcutter begins by trying to be kind to his environment. But when he's offered a reward for his actions, will he make the right choice?

This story is adapted from a European folk tale by Chip Colquhoun, and 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.

Manmade lobal warming is an urgent issue today – but did you know the ancients were telling folk tales about it centuries ago?

In this week's Epic Storytime, a woodcutter begins by trying to be kind to his environment. But when he's offered a reward for his actions, will he make the right choice?

This story is adapted from a European folk tale by Chip Colquhoun, and 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

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

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.

Together the panel discuss an ancient tale with surprisingly modern relevance; that of the woodcutter who overheats the world with his magical wishes. Discover how his story can help your children conquer classification charts, persuasive writing, differences between continents, and much more!

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"The Woodcutter's Golden Wand" Excerpt | 1:25

All-age PSHCE | 4:14
• caring for the environment, Forest Schools (5:31, 7:08, 11:06, 12:57, 15:25, 35:46, 41:18)
• be careful what you wish for, you can't always get what you want, greed, selfishness, laziness, "Bruce Almighty" (8:24)
• different roles, playing our part, every child matters (11:06)
• consequences of actions, custodianship, taking turns (18:28)
• mindfulness, mindful thinking (37:52)

Learning outcomes for ages 4–7 | 14:00
• Science: naming familiar plants, uses of wood, materials (14:25, 16:06); animals and habitats, ecosystems, minibeasts (24:18); natural materials (20:44)
• DT: carpentry, woodwork (15:25)
• Literacy: dialogue, speech bubbles, persuasive language (16:06); retelling stories, adapting settings (17:34); interpreting texts, searching for clues in texts, descriptive writing (20:44)
• Geography: local area, local wildlife, maps (17:34); holiday destinations, different countries, hot and cold countries, climates (25:22)
• DT: natural materials (20:44)

Learning outcomes for ages 7–11 | 25:51
• Literacy: punctuating speech, writing conversations, writing plays (26:04); persuasive writing, "Three Billy Goats Gruff" ( 27:19); newspaper articles, report writing, interpreting texts, inferring from texts 28:54)
• Numeracy: "Top Trump" cards (27:57)
• Science: trees (27:57, 30:29, 35:46); classification charts, materials, research projects (30:29, 34:21); Global Warming (35:46)
• Geography: maps, differences between continents and countries (30:29); Amazon Rainforest (35:46)
• DT: making games (27:57); uses of wood (30:29, 34:21); building a bird house (32:29)
• History: Iron Age, Stone Age, Bronze Age (34:21)

All-age learning outcomes | 38:28
• Science: habitats, food chains, environmental impact, circle of life, caring for the natural world (7:08, 11:06, 12:57, 41:18)
• DT and Geography: making board games based on your local area (18:28)
• Numeracy: counting forwards and backwards (18:28); statistics, charts, data collecting (32:29)
• Art: different media (35:22); natural media, representing nature, clay (40:29)
• PE: conkers (39:21)

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

Epic Storytime listeners are always the first to hear the full stories begun each week at epictales.co.uk – read by fabulous voice actors from across the Interweb.

Have you ever felt like the whole world is out to get you – but everything would change if they all knew exactly what you have to offer? That's exactly how Robin Goodfellow feels at the start of this story – but when he receives some magical fairy powers, the world has one more lesson for him...

Featuring a character of English folklore who even made his way into Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, this Epic Tale has plenty of fun and learning for your young learners too!

*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!

Check the Epic Learning podcast at epictales.co.uk/shapeshifter for teacher tips on activities using this story – including PSHCE, numeracy, and even PE!

This story is based on an English folk tale adapted by Chip Colquhoun for his book Cambridgeshire Folk Tales for Children, which you can find at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridgeshire-Folk-Tales-Children-Colquhoun/dp/0750967277

The tale is read here by Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com).

Illustration by Erica Terry-Rose.

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

Epic Storytime listeners are always the first to hear the full stories begun each week at epictales.co.uk – read by fabulous voice actors from across the Interweb.

Have you ever felt like the whole world is out to get you – but everything would change if they all knew exactly what you have to offer? That's exactly how Robin Goodfellow feels at the start of this story – but when he receives some magical fairy powers, the world has one more lesson for him...

Featuring a character of English folklore who even made his way into Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, this Epic Tale has plenty of fun and learning for your young learners too!

This story is based on an English folk tale adapted by Chip Colquhoun for his book Cambridgeshire Folk Tales for Children, which you can find at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridgeshire-Folk-Tales-Children-Colquhoun/dp/0750967277

The tale is read here by Erika Sanderson (erikasanderson.com).

Illustration by Erica Terry-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 © Erica Terry-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

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

This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; Laura, a headteacher for an international school in Spain; and Janina, an Epic Storyteller – and an Epic Mum!

Together the panel discuss an English folk tale starring Robin Goodfellow – better known as "Puck" from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Discover how the mischievous fairy prince's adventures can help your children conquer statistics, anti-bullying, animal habitats, and much more!

TIMECODES
Intros | 0:00

"The Shapeshifter" Excerpt | 1:28

All-age PSHCE | 5:01
• role models, adapting to overcome obstacles (5:01)
• joy in helping others, gratitude, kindness, anti-bullying, turning points (6:32)
• appropriate punishments (8:59)
• labels, overcoming labels, the power of words (10:57)
• meaning of names (13:45)
• naming emotions, personifying emotions (20:53)
• making other people happy, kindness challenges, "The Elves and the Shoe-maker" (24:28)
• anti-bullying (24:54)
• family trees, "can do" attitude/mindset (27:14)
• difference between "mischief" and "naughty" (29:41)
• everyone has a purpose (34:28)
• exile, isolation, social distancing (39:45)
• making others happy, ways of giving and receiving love, "secret angels" (42:12)

Learning outcomes for ages 4–7 | 17:25
• Core: problem-solving 17:44)
• Science: camouflage (19:05); classifying creatures, mini-beasts (25:30)
• Literacy: shapeshifters, Harry Potter (19:31); making predictions ( 20:39); tracking emotions, emotion graphs, drawing evidence from the text (20:53); JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" (20:53); "Cinderella" (24:54)
• Numeracy: counting, Venn diagrams, statistics, bar charts, pictograms, tally charts (25:30)
• Geography: different continents (34:28)

Learning outcomes for ages 7–11 | 29:16
• Literacy: comparing texts (29:41); Roald Dahl's Matilda (29:41); Louis Sachar's There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Louis Sachar's Holes (29:41); Latin phrases ( 37:57)
• Science: adaptation (32:39); animal reactions, animal behaviours (36:39)
• Numeracy: estimation (32:39); Roman numerals (33:46); currency (34:11); area and perimeter (34:28)
• History: Roman numerals, kings and queens (33:46); Tudor times (34:11); Latin (37:57)
• Languages: Latin phrases (37:57)

All-age learning outcomes | 38:33
• Science: animals and habitats (17:44, 32:39, 34:28)
• PE: obstacle courses, gymnastics (19:31, 38:52)
• RE: names, name choices (27:14)
• History: impact of time (34:28, 39:45)
• Drama: animals, reactions (36:39)
• Literacy: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (39:45)

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 easy, fun, and engaging activities.

This week, Epic storyteller Chip is joined by Bex, a Deputy Head from Cambridgeshire; Laura, a headteacher for an international school in Spain; and Janina, an Epic Storyteller – and an Epic Mum!

Together the panel discuss an English folk tale starring Robin Goodfellow – better known as "Puck" from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Discover how the mischievous fairy prince's adventures can help your children conquer statistics, anti-bullying, animal habitats, and much more!

*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

"The Shapeshifter" Excerpt | 1:28

All-age PSHCE | 5:01
• role models, adapting to overcome obstacles (5:01)
• joy in helping others, gratitude, kindness, anti-bullying, turning points (6:32)
• appropriate punishments (8:59)
• labels, overcoming labels, the power of words (10:57)
• meaning of names (13:45)
• naming emotions, personifying emotions (20:53)
• making other people happy, kindness challenges, "The Elves and the Shoe-maker" (24:28)
• anti-bullying (24:54)
• family trees, "can do" attitude/mindset (27:14)
• difference between "mischief" and "naughty" (29:41)
• everyone has a purpose (34:28)
• exile, isolation, social distancing (39:45)
• making others happy, ways of giving and receiving love, "secret angels" (42:12)

Learning outcomes for ages 4–7 | 17:25
• Core: problem-solving 17:44)
• Science: camouflage (19:05); classifying creatures, mini-beasts (25:30)
• Literacy: shapeshifters, Harry Potter (19:31); making predictions ( 20:39); tracking emotions, emotion graphs, drawing evidence from the text (20:53); JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" (20:53); "Cinderella" (24:54)
• Numeracy: counting, Venn diagrams, statistics, bar charts, pictograms, tally charts (25:30)
• Geography: different continents (34:28)

Learning outcomes for ages 7–11 | 29:16
• Literacy: comparing texts (29:41); Roald Dahl's Matilda (29:41); Louis Sachar's There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Louis Sachar's Holes (29:41); Latin phrases ( 37:57)
• Science: adaptation (32:39); animal reactions, animal behaviours (36:39)
• Numeracy: estimation (32:39); Roman numerals (33:46); currency (34:11); area and perimeter (34:28)
• History: Roman numerals, kings and queens (33:46); Tudor times (34:11); Latin (37:57)
• Languages: Latin phrases (37:57)

All-age learning outcomes | 38:33
• Science: animals and habitats (17:44, 32:39, 34:28)
• PE: obstacle courses, gymnastics (19:31, 38:52)
• RE: names, name choices (27:14)
• History: impact of time (34:28, 39:45)
• Drama: animals, reactions (36:39)
• Literacy: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (39:45)

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@epicta

The Epic Storytime Podcast is back! Be the first to hear the full stories begun each week at epictales.co.uk – read by fabulous voice actors from across the Interweb.

Since 13th September is Roald Dahl Day, we're celebrating the iconic children's author with a folk tale from his home town of Great Missenden! Dahl was almost certainly aware of the deliciously horrid "hero" of this tale; maybe she will inspire the creativity of your children as much as she inspired him?

This story is adapted from a European folk tale by Chip Colquhoun, and read by David Ault (davidault.co.uk).

Illustrated by Erica Terry-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 story 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.

After you've listened to this podcast, please leave us a review – we'd love to know what you think!

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