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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 ...

Visit to Kirkbymoorside Primary School

Jun

2003

Steve Bell Since I was holidaying in North Yorkshire in early June I took the opportunity to visit this school to view the results of several Storylines which had been initiated there. I was greatly impressed by the high quality of the work on show and by the enthusiasm and imagination displayed by the pupils. ...

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 ...

Comenius Project

Jun

2002

Kumi Tømmerbakke, a Primary 7 class teacher in Løkeberg school in Haslum, Norway, has recently reported a very interesting visit made to Gloucester Primary School in Peckham, London, as part of a Comenius project. A school in Italy, “A. Gandiglio” situated in Fano, completes the group of three schools connected to this project for a ...

“Bridging the Gap” impresses Norway!

Jun

2001

Can Storyline help bridge the gap between the generations? The answer is most certainly,’Yes! This was impressively demonstrated when teachers from Ringstabekk skole in Norway last Monday met up with Pip Tench and Ged Stanton at St. Thomas Moore High School in Newcastle, England. We got to see several examples about how young pupils were mixed ...

Two Storyline Topics in an Intergenerational Programme

May

1996

Pip Tench and Ged Stanton have developed these two Topics for use in St Thomas More RC High School in the North Tyneside Council area. They are entitled ‘The Town of the Future’ and ‘Trench Warfare’. As can be seen from the illustrations both stories provided opportunities for involving older people with secondary students in ...