Two very different - and equally inspired - storymaking workshops at Bridport Primary school saw Year 4 classes Eggardon A and Eggardon B collaboratively create their own fictional words. The drama studio was full of fun and creativity for these two sessions.

Our first dual-school storymaking workshop took place with pupils from Years 3-6 at Membury and Mrs Ethelston’s primary schools. The session took place at Membury’s beautiful Village Hall, with state-of-the-art projector equipment that included an enooooooooormous screen.

We continued our Podcasting project at the Woodroffe School with a day spent with Year 10. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine we took the opportunity to use the workshop to allow the 14/15 year-olds to express their feelings about the current war.

Mountjoy School’s Maple Class was on a mission to create high jinx in the jungle during their storymaking workshop.

It was lovely to have such a great response from everyone passing by, and get some new volunteers signed up for training. If you want to know more follow the GET INVOLVED tab on the website, where you can sign up.

The workshop takes place at The LSI Building in Bridport on Saturday 9th April from 10am, and is for young writers aged between 13 and 18 years.

We will be creating poems on the theme of ‘adaptation’ to be filmed and presented before the features of this years ‘From Page to Screen’ film festival. We are excited to have the workshop led by Anthony Anaxagorou.

A wonderful International Women’s Day spent with a mix of pupils from Woodroffe School, where we explored identity and what we care about to write personal essays for individual podcast recordings.

It was a World Book Day extravaganza at Thorncombe St Mary’s primary school, with some fabulous costumes including the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland (pictured here looking a bit topsy turvy).

Storymaking took on exciting levels of development and characterisation at Mountjoy school, where Ash class created Bench and the Spirits, a tale of two characters wanting the same thing, but for very different reasons.

Ever wanted to run a newspaper, well now you can at our FREE after school creative writing workshops. Find out more and apply for a place here.

Huge thanks to David Walliams, Hugh Bonneville and Dolly Wells to take the time to appreciate the wonderful stories created by St Mary’s school and bring them to life.

As World Book Day approaches (3rd March), Bridport St Mary’s CE Primary are going storymaking mad!

Name badges arrive for our volunteers.

We spent a delightful morning meeting our newest volunteers, who kindly gave up their time to take part in a two-hour training session.

We’re delighted to have had such a glowing report from Year 11 pupils at The Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis, following our recent one-day Podcasting workshop.

We’re getting down to the business end of our six-week writing project with Sir John Colfox School; with two more sessions to go, the participating Year 9 students have each built a high-quality portfolio of writing to go into the anthology.

The finished podcasts from Year 11 students at Woodroffe School.

There’s a sense of mystery growing at Sir John Colfox School, where Year 9 pupils are tapping into their dark side to produce creative writing for an anthology entitled Eerie.

We spent a fantastic day at Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis, working with Year 11 pupils to record their own Podcasts.

This week the year 6’s at Salway Ash took us on a scary journey involving the dastardly headteacher Mr Overkill.