primary school
programme (Prep - 3)
stories alive!
As Victoria’s longest running educational theatre company, with over thirty years experience in presenting theatre to tens of thousands of students in school incursions across Victoria, The Flying Bookworm Theatre Company can proudly say that we know our audiences and their needs.
Our programmes are carefully selected to ensure we bring vibrancy and theatricality to your students’ learning. You can expect your students to be enlivened, entertained, engaged and educated by their experience, and that your students will leave the performance motivated to build on that experience.
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Our actors are highly trained, but they are not the stars of the show... your students are! Our Stories Alive! programme emphasises participation and even puts some of your students in starring roles.
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We offer two primary school programmes for students in grades prep to 6.
For our grade prep to 3 students we have our ‘Stories Alive!’ programme which combines classic stories, story telling and fables. Each performance goes for approximately 50 minutes and contains three stories which are selected by... YOU! By choosing the stories from our programme that suit you best, you can ensure that your students get the most out of the experience. Our story selection changes each year and include poetry, fairytales and world stories. You can find our 2026 story choices below.
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For our grade 3 to 6 students we have our ‘Banjo’ programme which brings together three of Banjo Patterson's classic poems in an exciting and crazy educational performance of Australiana and bush poetry, which brings out the energy, excitement and brilliance of Patterson's language. It's poetry, but not as you know it.
“Just wanted to pass on a note to your actors to thank them for their wonderful performances at Trinity. The whole school totally enjoyed the live theatre experience. The staff and the students loved the stories and plays brought to us by the Flying Bookworm. The children were thrilled to be involved in all the plays and enjoyed the fun and hilarity that live performances bring. It was wonderful.”
- Trinity Albury
opening stories: (choose one)
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Ogden Nash's classic poem about a young girl and her pets burst to life on stage!
When Belinda and her cowardly pet dragon Custard discover a pirate trying to steal their treasure, it's time for Custard to finally find his courage.
Will Custard save the day? Will the pirate be foiled?
All will be revealed with a realio, trulio, little pet Dragon.
The Little Red Hen has found a seed and can't wait to plant it! All they need is a little help from the other animals.
But today, no one seems to want to help!
Surely they won't have to do all of the work all by themselves without any help at all...
Not too hot, not too cold, this story is just right.
This highly requested, beloved story about figuring things out returns to Bookwormland! See Goldilocks and the 3 Bears bring fun (and porridge) to the stage in this classic fairy tale.
main stories: (choose two)
This lovely little duck is just looking to make friends. But the other animals are all being not very nice.
It seems they don't like that the duckling looks different. But what's so bad about looking different?
This timeless fairy tale that shows all the ways in which being yourself is the best thing you can be makes it's long awaited Flying Bookworm debut.
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The Little Red Engine just want's to get up and over the hill. But oh dear! They've run out of puff!
Can any of the other engines out there help them?
What do you do when you can't do it alone and no one will help?
Will they be able to make it?
We think they can, we think they can, we think they can...
What an exciting day! Our 3 Little Pigs are heading out on their own to build their very own houses.
Poor Mummy Pig will miss them so much! But she not worried about them. After all there's nothing to worry about, sepecially not a big, bad, wolf...
You'll huff and you'll puff and you'll laugh yourself silly.
Join Hans and Helga as they tell the famous much loved tale, that has become our most popular story ever! Three great goats and one tricky troll, make for a fantastic lesson in friendship, problem solving and the downside of greediness. But he’s very silly and great fun.
The goats may come in small, medium and big, but the fun only comes in EXTRA LARGE in this marvellous misadventure.
You cheeky monkeys!
That poor Cap Seller really is having a bit of a hard day. No one wants to buy his caps, he doesn't have any lunch and now those cheeky monkeys have stolen all his caps! Getting them back is certainly going to be tricky and take everything they've got.
The minimum performance fee for a Primary school Magic Journey performance is $795 for up to 100 students in a single session.
Performances with greater than 100 students have an additional fee of $7.95 for every student thereafter.
All prices are inclusive of GST.