Schools

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Sheep Tales has been busy working alongside schools to provide workshops and cross-curriculum activities.

Available now: 'Shepherding Heritage' Schools Teaching Resource

• Early Years/Key Stage 1/Key Stage 2
• A Loans box (Kist) containing:
• Audio-visual presentation recalling life as a child on a Cheviot hill farm 50 years ago
• Oral histories as a soundtrack
• Archive photographs from the last 100 years
• Shepherding artefacts (objects)
• Suggested teaching activities, linked to the relevant curriculum.

The kist is available on loan to your school for a specified period of time.
For more information, please contact us.

Photos from Warkworth C of E First School

Previous School Projects

• Glendale Middle School
• Rock Hall School
• Belford First School
• Wooler First School
• Seahouses First School
• Norham First School
• Cornhill First School
• Lowick & Holy Island Schools
• Ford First School

“Local artist and felt-maker, Anna Turnbull, came into school to work with the children in Reception. We had a wonderful time learning about the life in the past of Northumbrian shepherds. The children loved trying on the huge heavy boots and using the crook, with which some of them became quite skilful! The children enjoyed trying to work out what the different artefacts had been used for – we came up with some very interesting ideas!”

“We also had an exciting time using the sheep’s wool to create a felted wall hanging of “The Good Shepherd”. The children learned how to handle the wool in different ways at each stage in the process. They were delighted with the end result and had lots of fun along the way.”

Cath Beeby, Warkworth C of E First School