England ← Storyline Scotland

Launch of new Website

Oct

2011

Congratulations to Jill Wells, headteacher of Sinnington Primary School in North Yorkshire, on establishing a Storyline England website. Jill and her colleagues have been enthusiastic Storyline teachers for many years and I am sure this opportunity to share their experience will be welcomed by many other educators in England. www.storyline-england.co.uk

The Story of a School

Sep

2010

Ox Close Primary School, Spennymoor, Durham “Spennymoor Ox” was a community celebration of the history and contemporary use of Ox Close Community Garden adjacent to the primary school. It was designed to offer a lyrical evocation of the relatively recent but easily forgotten past and provide a permanent link to it. The Grand Opening took ...

Storyline in North Yorkshire

Jan

2010

Jill L Wells & Kathy Robson A new, exciting Storyline project involving three secondary schools and five primary schools is taking place in North Yorkshire, England at the moment. Inspired by an ‘Introduction to storyline’ presentation run by Jill Wells, Kathy Robson, Subject leader and Assistant Headteacher at Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering, researched the ...

Doctorate Success for Rhonda

Jan

2010

Congratulations Rhonda Mitchell-Barrett who will receive her doctorate in January Her thesis was based on an analysis of the Storyline method in primary school; its theoretical underpinnings and its impact on pupils’ intrinsic motivation. This study explored the relationship between the Scottish Storyline teaching method and pupils’ levels of motivation when engaged in a Storyline ...

NOJO Award for Intergenerational Storyline Project

Aug

2006

Pip Tench and Ged Stanton went down to London last week together with older volunteers and a group of pupils from St Thomas More RC School because they had been shortlisted for the NOJO (Not Older Just Old) Award. The British Charity “Help the Aged” run this competition every year. Pip and Ged were nominated ...

A Storyline Trip to Oregon

Oct

2005

Lorna Karetnyk Four teachers, Lorna Karetnyk, Ian Taylor, Gareth Sleightholme and Simon Johnson from Kirkbymoorside School, North Yorkshire, left Manchester Airport on Saturday 22nd October 2005 to spend a week in Oregon observing and working with teachers delivering Storyline. Todd Stewart-Rinier was our tireless host who gave us a most educational and entertaining week in ...

Storyline Study by Finnish Researcher

Jun

2005

Riikka Pyysalo is a Finnish PhD student in Education at the University of Cambridge, England. Her background is in educational studies, sociology and learning psychology and she completed her earlier studies at the University of Helsinki and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. While she has mainly pursued the research path she has always been interested in ...

Norwegian Teachers visit American Community School, Cobham, England

Apr

2004

On Wednesday, the 14th of April, 35 Norwegian educators from Askollen skole, Drammen, Norway visited the American Community School, Cobham, England. The purpose of their visit was to learn about effective teaching strategies including Storyline. Rebecca Plaskitt hosted their visit sharing about a current historical storyline, multiple uses of math manipulatives, and ideas for teaching ...

Storyline in the American Community School, Surrey, England

Jun

2003

Rebecca Plaskitt is an experienced Storyline teacher having first attended workshops ten years ago in Portland, Oregon. She has been successfully using this approach within her own classroom since joining the staff of the Lower School and in the process has influenced many of her colleagues. Her recent article explains how the work is progressing. ...

Storyline in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England

Jun

2003

Jill Wells and Lorna Karetnyk After an extremely interesting and few days in Denmark, we were totally converted to the idea of the storyline method of teaching. We had received advice and support throughout the conference and now wanted to channel this renewed enthusiasm into our teaching when we returned to England. We must have ...

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