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‘The Street’ Storyline Workshop

Sep

2013

On the 3rd and 4th June 2013 Sinnington Community Primary School hall was converted into a street full of shops with busy chatty interaction between stall holders! Having been to many Storyline workshops in my time, I thought it only right that my staff should be trained by a ‘professional’ so with that in mind ...

18th Golden Circle Seminar

Aug

2013

Here’s a link to an old post that we missed from the new website. http://www.storyline-scotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/storyline-pdf.pdf

Swedish Class donate bake sale profits to Swaziland School

May

2013

The 7th grade, worked on a sustainable market using the Storyline approach. The students sold homemade/locally produced organic cakes to former pupils, parents and staff. Everything was sold and 7C decided to donate a portion of profits to a school in Swaziland. The money was used to buy rulers and pencils for use in their ...

Storyline Morning in the Netherlands

May

2013

Sallie Harkness and Steve Bell At the invitation of Peter Geerdink and Simon Olbertijn, who were participants at the 5th International Storyline Conference held in the University of Iceland in August 2012, we were invited to present at a Miniconference for the staff of the teacher training universities of Stenden and Meppel on Wednesday 10th ...

Global Storylines Website

Feb

2013

Marie-Jeanne McNaughton The Global Storylines website is now up and running. Diana from WOSDEC has done an excellent job in getting this all together. Please have a look if you’re interested in education or the Scottish Storyline method.

Visit to Tomsk, Siberia, Russia

Jan

2013

Steve Bell and Sallie Harkness of Storyline Scotland 19th – 28th October 2012 In October 2012 Steve Bell and I had the privilege to attend the 23rd Annual International Conference ‘Language and Culture’ in honour of the 80th anniversary of the Department of Foreign Languages of Tomsk State University, Siberia. The conference also celebrated fifty ...

German Storyline “Unser Zoo” available again

Jan

2013

The Storyline about the Zoo, published originally in 2007 was out of print. So Ulf Schwänke who is also the author of the book ‘Die Storyline-Methode’ wrote a new version called ‘Unser Zoo’ (Our Zoo). The Storyline is designed for Primary 1 to 4 and can be adapted to the reading and writing abilities of ...

Dr Ifigenia Iliopoulou, University of Volos, Greece

Nov

2012

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Ifigenia Iliopoulou, of the University of Volos, Greece, who has recently completed her PhD studies. She has been using Storyline in the area of Environmental Education with teachers in Kindergarten and in the Early Stages of Primary School. In 2003 she wrote the first book on Storyline for teachers in Greece. She ...

Journal Article

Nov

2012

´Storyline: a task-based approach for the young learner classroom´ has been published by English Language Teaching Journal. The article is based on Sharon’s thesis in which she investigated the development of Swedish pupils’ communicative skills in English when they took part in Storyline, Our Sustainable Street. The photos shown here are taken from that study ...

Storyline Course for Social Science Students

Oct

2012

Oslo University College Per Anders Aas & Siv Eie As part of a cultural study visit to Scotland 48 social science students from Oslo and Akershus University College attended a morning workshop in the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow. The purpose of the course was to introduce them to Storyline thinking and the travel topic ...