National Storytelling Week KS2/P4-P7 Resources

‘Soundtrack your story’: a storytelling project with Alim Kamara

Supported by Amazon, we have created a fun, interactive storytelling project for National Storytelling Week with rapper and storyteller Alim Kamara, for pupils aged 7 to 11 (KS2/P4-7). Based on the theme ‘Soundtrack your story’, the project is designed to inspire a love of story creation through music and rhythm.

The week began with a free, live storytelling workshop with Alim on Tuesday 3 February 2026, now available as a recording to watch on-demand.

The workshop acts as an exciting springboard for the classroom activities, providing inspiration for pupils’ writing.

Watch the recording below:

Key stage 2 (P4-P7) classroom resources

Our National Storytelling Week teacher resource pack for Key Stage 2 provides a flexible menu of activities to support your pupils to write raps building on Alim's workshop.

We also have family resources for children to complete at home.

Please download the KS2/P4 to P7 resources at the bottom of the page.

Writing competition

Teachers can submit pupils' raps writing to our National Storytelling Week writing competition throughout February. Winners will be notified in May.

Prizes

• Winning pupils' writing will be published in a special National Storytelling Week anthology. They will receive a printed copy of the anthology as well as a copy for their school.
• All schools who submit writing will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win a bundle of books.
• Several pupils in KS2/P4-P7 will have the opportunity to have their work performed and recorded by rapper Alim Kamara!
• To submit your students’ work, please read the guidelines and follow the link to Submittable.

Guidelines

• Submissions will be open until 27 February.
• Submissions can be a maximum of 300 words. The submissions should be in the form of rap lyrics, building on Alim's workshop and the classroom resources.
• We will not judge submissions on spelling or grammar mistakes, but the writing should be coherent and clear.
• Please upload your submissions as a Word document. Please name the document the initials of the pupil. Eg. Submission1_JD.
• Please ensure no pupil names are on or inside the document, just their initials. We cannot accept any submissions including names.
• There is no cap on the number of submissions per class or school. However, please note that you will need to upload a separate submission per pupil.

Please only submit writing created by KS2/P4-P7 pupils.

Submittable

• You will need to create an account with your email address and name. You will need to verify your account.

If you have any questions about National Storytelling Week 2026, please email Young Writers: young.writers@literacytrust.org.uk