Explore how passionate storytelling is key to outstanding literacy provision. Learn how to upgrade your story times with fun and interactive drama techniques, move away from the carpet and go beyond the book to lead engaging moments that weave stories into play. Thinking practical, go-to tips for stories that can be used everyday without any extra ‘stuff’.

Olivia Corbin-Phillip, known as Stories with Liv, is a storyteller and literacy consultant specialising in early years. Liv specialises in interactive and responsive storytelling that put children at the centre of the adventure. She is interested in how stories find themselves in all areas of our lives, and in particular how they present in the play and oracy of young children. Liv is an advocate for early years workforce, championing the work of practitioners and teachers to make the academic work and arts-based research reachable to those on the ground in nurseries and schools.