What We Offer: School Workshops
Our workshops can be bespoke to your choice of book genre, theme or title. Or alternatively, Story Detectives can create a standalone session or a series of after school one hour sessions aimed at EYFS / SEND and KS1 children, featuring a variety of engaging and popular children’s stories.
Each one hour session is designed for children in either small groups or whole classes, with opportunities for partner, group and independent work using fun props, clues and costumes throughout.
Children work with characters and scripts, encouraging them to solve weekly or individual cases to reveal a missing storybook from Storyland.
Every practical workshop supports reading, writing and inference skills and encourages children’s confidence when reading with peers, in front of an audience or recording their own clues in their very own case books!
Contact us for your very own after-school workshop personalised package, which also works as part of the new government incentive to provide each school with an enriched education experience.
Story Detectives After‑School Club
Inspiring young readers through stories, clues and creative investigation
Story Detectives offers a unique after‑school experience designed to spark imagination, strengthen early literacy skills, and build children’s confidence through playful, story‑rich adventures. Our workshops can be fully bespoke to your chosen book genre, theme or title, or delivered as a standalone session or series of one‑hour weekly workshops featuring a variety of engaging and popular children’s stories.
Our sessions are ideal for:
EYFS, SEND, and KS1 children
Small groups or whole classes
Schools seeking creative, curriculum‑supportive enrichment opportunities
What happens in a Story Detectives session?
Each one‑hour workshop blends storytelling, drama, puppetry and problem‑solving to create an exciting literacy adventure. Children become mini detectives, working with characters, scripts and clues to solve weekly or standalone cases. Their mission: to uncover the missing storybook from Storyland.
Sessions include:
Partner, group and independent activities
Fun props, clues, costumes and character interactions
Opportunities to read aloud, perform, collaborate and create
A personal case book for recording clues, ideas and story discoveries
Literacy skills woven throughout
Every workshop is carefully designed to support:
Reading fluency and confidence
Early writing skills
Inference and comprehension
Speaking and listening
Creative thinking and problem‑solving
Children learn to read with peers, present to an audience, and express their ideas through storytelling and detective‑style investigations.
Perfect for schools
Story Detectives can be tailored to complement your curriculum, current topics or school reading focus. Our personalised packages also align with the new government initiative encouraging schools to provide enriched educational experiences beyond the classroom.
Get in touch
If you’d like to bring Story Detectives to your school, we’d love to create a bespoke after‑school package just for you. Contact us to discuss themes, scheduling, group sizes and personalised options.
