Our TPS EAL students entertained and educated the school by presenting some of Aesop’s Fables in a storytelling assembly.

The EAL students in Taunton Prep School all have another mother tongue than English. Indeed, for many of our students, English is their third or even forth language. In celebration of National Storytelling Week, these students showed enthusiasm and nerve by standing in front of the whole school and reading and acting out some of Aesop’s Fables.

During the assembly, five fables were covered, including The Tortoise and the Hare, The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, and The Ant and the Grasshopper. Pupils from all year groups were involved, with two Year 8 pupils creating the visuals and doing the introductions, and the other EAL pupils reciting and acting out the fables.

Highlights included: Year 3 and 4 Giulia and Victor acting out the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing; and Year 7 and 8 pupils using the whole chapel as a track for the hare and tortoise to race around!

The assembly was a huge success with these exceptional pupils being given the opportunity not only to consider the meaning of certain stories and their morals, but also to consider how certain stories can travel through time and languages and still be relevant today.