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Centenary Storyline

Jun

2007

Grange Primary School, Falkirk Council Yvonne MacBlain Grange Primary School in the Scottish town of Bo’ness is celebrating its centenary this year. To enable pupils to appreciate and participate in this event more fully, from September 2006 until June 2007, they worked on a special project using the Storyline method. This project was co-ordinated by ...

The High School of Glasgow Junior School A Welcoming School Community

May

2007

Geraldine Low, Singapore As part of a 6-month “Leaders in Education Programme”, 6 Vice-Principals, 1 Principal and a lecturer from the National Institute of Education, Singapore, visited the High School of Glasgow Junior School on 21 May 2007. Steve Bell had very kindly made the arrangements for the school visit and he and his Storyline colleagues, Sallie ...

Swedish visitors to Falkirk Council School

May

2007

Gunnel Sköld and Åsa Eriksson, Antnässkolan, Luleå, Sweden In early May 2007 we spent two very interesting days at Larbert Village Primary School in Falkirk, Scotland. We were invited by their headteacher Mrs. Pamela Adamson as a consequence of a meeting at the Third International Storyline Conference held in Glasgow last November 2006. Both our ...

The Rock & Roll Café

Mar

2007

Gartconner Primary School, East Dunbartonshire Lynn Wilson & Gillian Lumsden As was mentioned in a previous news item the Storyline Topic entitled the Rock & Roll Café proved to be very popular with pupils in class P 4/5 of Gartconner Primary School. The official opening ceremony followed a whole class presentation at a school assembly ...

Cyber-bullying

Mar

2007

In a recent article by Douglas Blane in the Times Educational Supplement Scotland (Friday March 30th 2007), Helen Glen, headteacher at Springhill Primary in East Renfrewshire, described how she had identified a problem with a P6 class as being caused by cyber-bullying. Pupils were using mobile phones and computer chatrooms to bully other children in ...

Mini-beasts Storyline

Mar

2007

Battlefield Primary School, Glasgow District Council, Scotland Catriona Brown Battlefield Primary School in Glasgow incorporated Storyline Planning across the school from January to March 2007. The staff were allocated additional hours for the brainstorming and planning of the term’s curriculum through an integrated topic. Catriona Brown, Principal Teacher, had attended the Storyline Conference in Glasgow ...

3rd International Storyline Conference, Glasgow

Oct

2006

The general reaction of the 336 delegates to the conference was extremely enthusiastic. The keynote speakers – Dr Willie Haughey, Prof John MacBeath, Prof. Jonothan Neelands, Jackie Murphy and Prof Brian Boyd – provided valuable insights from their various educational experiences into promoting an exciting array of ideas, techniques and philosophies which linked seamlessly together ...

Book: Promoting Language Across the Curriculum

Jul

2006

Authors: Steve Bell & Sallie Harkness Published by UKLA Publications ISBN-13: 10 1 8976 38345 Format: Mini-book Link to publisher

Storyline Course

Nov

2005

Larbert Village Primary School The whole staff of Larbert Village Primary School and a few invited guest teachers attended a one-day Storyline workshop course given by Steve Bell on Tuesday 15th November 2005. As the curriculum focus changes in Scotland to encourage more creative arts, imaginative thinking and problem tackling, teachers are keen to explore ...

Developing Language Skills in Storyline Topics

Nov

2005

This year for the first time an option has been included in the B.Ed (Honours) Degree in Primary Education Course at Strathclyde University under the In-Depth Language Study Programme entitled Developing Language Skills in Storyline Topics. The participants will experience two practical workshops and be asked to give their views on the benefits of adopting ...