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Article in Finnish Journal

May

2007

Ann-Maj Björkell-Holm, who works for the Inservice department of the Åbo Akademi in Vasa, Finland, has written an article about the creative activities involved in working with a Storyline topic. This is published in the Åbo University’s Educational Journal which is interestingly named ‘Hett Stoff’ translated as ‘Hot Stuff’. The publication is dated 3-4/2002 and ...

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 ...

Courses in Stockholm & Gothenburg

Mar

2007

Very successful Storyline courses have recently been run in Sweden. Mait Adegård, vice principal in Skarpnäcks skolan, organises several courses annually, and her school has become the Storyline centre in Stockholm. Skarpnäcks has a website which shows a selection of photographs from these courses over the past few years. Eva Marsh and Ylva Lundin are ...

Norwegian Educational Journal

Mar

2007

Janne Fausganger, a lecturer in the College of Education in Stavanger, has written a paper in this journal entitled ‘Storyline – with Mathematics inside or outside?’ She presented an outline of her paper at The Golden Circle seminar in Iceland in May and it was enthusiastically received by the participants. She gives very clear examples ...

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 ...

Staff Development Course in a German Special School

Jan

2007

The Schule am Schillerzentrum in Cuxhaven is a special school for mentally handicapped children. Participating in a Comenius project some teachers had been invited to Denmark a few months ago. There they got to know the Storyline approach and became immediately enthusiastic. So they wanted to know more about this way of teaching and learning. On the ...

New Swedish Brochure for Parents

Jan

2007

Tidningen Skolbarn, the educational publisher, has produced an informative brochure to up-date parents about school developments in Sweden. The articles describe the latest advice on curriculum development, on the use of Portfolio for assessment purposes and on the Storyline approach to integrated learning. The authors, Helena Moreau and Steve Wretman, are deeply involved in offering ...

News from Huamin Primary School, Singapore

Jan

2007

Mrs Jessie Siva a teacher working with 12-year-old pupils in Huamin Primary School recently contacted me to describe her enthusiasm in working with Storyline. Jessie attended a workshop organised by the Ministry of Education in January this year. Since then she has, with the support of her Headteacher Mrs Rashidah Marican, put the ideas into ...