Overview
Geppetto is a lonely carpenter who decides to makes himself a wooden puppet boy called Pinocchio to be his son. But Pinocchio isn’t grateful to his father for making him and runs away to seek adventure. However, after getting into all sorts of trouble he learns the error of his ways and finds that all he really wants is to become a real boy and to make his father proud of him. Benefits to Children's Learning & Development This Nursery and KS1 show acts as a valuable stimulus that will both encourage students to read classic literature and provide them with the ideas and creativity to devise stories of their own. Our adaptation also teaches children to remember numbers and colours in an interactive and fun way.
The Cox Report 1989 recognises that; “Children construct the world through story”, and it also acknowledges the fun and the challenge of developing children’s “natural enthusiasms for story structures and role play.” It goes on to stress the teacher’s role in developing “interest in the act of reading” and how reading has an important role to play in improving children’s speaking, listening, and writing abilities.
