The Storyteller and the All Saints Teaching Assistants

 

The Teaching Assistants at All Saints School were very much down in the mouth (and eyes and ears also if truth be told).  Their students were bored, bored, BORED!!

The teachers at All Saints School were all bouncing around the place singing and la-la-la-ing like mad because they found teaching such jolly good fun and were having a wonderful time.

The students were sloping sneakily around the place muttering dark thoughts since they were so bored, bored, BORED!!

The Teaching Assistants (whose job it was to lift the spirits of the bored, bored, BORED students), felt that their mouths (and eyes and ears of course) would soon be dragging on the ground if SOMETHING WASN'T DONE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE!

Now, Mrs Andrews, one of the Teaching Assistants, was lolling against a wall one lunch-time, minding her own business and trying to think of something nice (like a chocolate cheesecake or a spicy vegetable pizza - YOU know the sort of thing) when a little old man in a long red coat and a bright yellow hat bumbled by.

"Wassup?" he asked coolly (he desperately wanted to be cool you see).

Sarah turned slowly and looked the little figure up and down.

"Oh, you know..." she muttered.  "Stuff."

The Storyteller (for yes it was he) stood for a while thinking.

"Hmm," he said.  "No idea what's wrong of course but if you want to cheer yourself up take a look at this."

He handed her his card and bumbled off humming to himself.

Mrs Andrews looked at the card.  It said: www.storyteller.me.uk and that was all.

For want of anything better to do she took herself off to a computer and typed in the address.

Three and a half hours later she unglued herself from the keyboard.  Her mouth was smiling, her eyes were wide and her ears were right on top of her head (well not quite but...)

She rushed into Room S5 waving the card madly.  The other Teaching Assistants hopped up and down with excitement.  They all rushed out and gathered in some of the bored, bored, BORED students, chucked them on the computers and logged them in to the Storyteller site.

Suddenly, learning WAS fun!  Suddenly the students faces lit up with delight.  Suddenly the Teaching Assistants' faces were bright and bubbly again.

Life at All Saints School was, once again, quite simply...worth it!

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