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Capital Tours at Kirkbymoorside CP School

Jun

2003

Lorna Karetnyk, Deputy Head Having been out of school for a term doing an Acting Headship I felt that on my return to school after the summer break we needed to do something special at the beginning of term that would encourage team building. The children had been split into different classes and two members ...

The Magic Key and Aberfoyle Primary

Jun

2003

Elspeth Davis and her class of 5 and 6 year old pupils have recently been involved in an exciting Storyline adventure. A series of letters, obviously very old, were discovered hidden in the playground of the school. The letter writer explained that he had lost the key to his castle in the woodland behind the ...

Intercultural Storyline challenge: Denmark meets Scotland!

Jun

2003

Danish teacher trainees using Storyline at Aberfoyle Primary School, Scotland. Tutored by experienced Storyline educator and head teacher of Aberfoyle Primary School, Carol Anne Omand, we: Anne Mette Linnet and Soren Birk Jensen from Frederiksberg College of Education, Copenhagen, got the chance to plan and teach a three week Storyline in a 3rd/ 4th form ...

Storyline News in the Times Educational Supplement (Scotland)

Jun

2003

Scottish Education & Teaching with Technology (SETT)

Jun

2003

The Scottish Learning Festival organised by SETT was held in the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow over Wednesday and Thursday 22nd & 23rd September. This major event attracts thousands of educational professionals from all over the country and has the aim of preparing teachers for the challenges of tomorrow by helping them connect with major ...

Freja and Eskil – New Danish Reading System

Jun

2003

Once again Jørgen Frost introduces a new reading system for the introductory period of school. Taking his starting point in Nils Hartmanns novel about two children from the Danish Middle Ages, and in the principles of Comprehensive reading, he offers a refreshingly new approach for tomorrow’s balanced teaching in reading. A beautiful book for reading ...

Earlier Swedish Influence

Jun

2003

School exchange links with Scotland led to an early contact with Storyline in the Alingsås school area. Two important videos were produced which helped to stimulate interest in the approach. The first was on Storyline which has examples from both Östlyckeskolan , grades 8-9 and Afzeliiskolan, primary pupils. The two examples from Östlyckeskolan include one ...

ITiS in Sweden

Jun

2003

ITiS (Information Technology in Schools) is the largest and most comprehensive national investment programme ever to be made in the school in Sweden. ITiS is just as much of an investment in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as in the development of the school. Over a four-year period 70,000 teachers working in teams will be offered ...

Mötesplats Carlssons Skola

Jun

2003

Over 240 teachers attended a one-day Storyline workshop organised in Stockholm, Sweden, by Mötesplats Carlssons Skola. Following an invitation from Henrietta Göbel, Steve Bell, accompanied by a colleague Linda Brownlow, presented a workshop which was based on the Open Market Topic. After a short powerpoint presentation the 24 groups worked enthusiastically to produce the most ...

Education for Road Traffic Safety in Sweden

Jun

2003

Camilla Henriksson of the Traffic & Public Transport Authority in Gothenburg, Sweden, has become very interested in how Storyline can be used to affect children’s attitudes to road safety. Working together with Ylva Lundin, a Storyline tutor, they have been experimenting with topics, which could help teachers to focus on traffic issues in schools. As ...