Botheredness: storytelling, learner investment and joy

04 Jun 2026
Main Stage
Hywel will explore the following:
• Storytelling and learning: the research into how stories engage and motivate learners
• Embracing enactive practice through simple Drama pedagogy to support great planning
• Getting children to lean into learning
• Encouraging great talk from reluctant students
• Putting some ‘oomf’ into curriculum delivery
• Transformative practice through transformed and informed delivery
• Contextual and Storytelling approaches to help children be curious about the world
• Employing discerning pedagogical decisions
• Powerful Botheredness models as a boon to creative practice and placing learning into contexts that bring the abstract to life
The session will be pacy, informative, and fun.
Speakers
Hywel Roberts
Hywel Roberts - Create Learn Inspire LTD