Teacher Profile
Speaking at our conference in March 2024: Sally Tonge
STORYTELLER, MUSICIAN AND COMMUNITY ARTIST
Sally Tonge is popular Shropshire based storyteller, musician and community artist. She works across the UK and beyond with listeners of all ages.
She tells stories combined with music, and is especially skilled at working with young children, children with special and additional needs and people living with dementia and memory impairment.
For nearly 30 years, Sal has worked as a a professional arts developer, taking creativity into schools and libraries, prisons and pubs, shopping centres and country parks, hospices and housing schemes, arts venues and even car parks.
She is currently Storyteller in Residence in 2 special schools in the West Midlands as well as a former Storyteller and Musician in Residence for Early Years settings throughout Shropshire. She has worked with the cabaret show Three Men in a Bow Tie for over 5 years and is currently touring Sheep Tales to village halls nationally. She has acted in Lovelee productions of Silhouette and Shakespeare’s Will. She sings and plays guitar as one half of duo DayLevel and is a regular touring artist for Music in Hospitals.
Story Sticks - More than rhythm makers, these sticks can capture visual and signed, playful and kinaesthetic language from children.
Sally's Story Sticks Sacks are a bright cotton bag contains a 1000 stories within the pairs of story sticks. They are ideal for circle time and group story making. Children observe each other and the facilitator and then the stories just grow!
Story sticks enable you to create genuinely child led stories which are rewarding and enriching for old and young.
The story sticks are made from beautifully machined and specially shaped wooden dowel finished in a wax oil tested to EN71 Safety Test suitable for use on children’s toys. There will be a chance to order a sack of sticks for delivery to your setting.