This week we welcomed four teachers from Ringstabekk School in Oslo, Norway, who were on a study tour to Oregon. They have come to find out more about Storyline because they want to get it going again in their school and there are so many new teachers at the school who have not had a ...
In 2009 the staff of Staffansby Primary School came on a study tour to Scotland. Although based in Edinburgh they made the trip through to Old Kilpatrick to see Storyline being used very successfully by the staff of Gavinburn Primary School in the District of West Dunbartonshire. They were so impressed by what they saw ...
33 Teachers from the Kokkola area of Finland attended this two day course on Storyline which was organised by Anette Dahlvik, Director of Inservice at the University. The new building provided a beautiful working environment for the participants. There was a wide variety of experience and interest in the group and several of those attending ...
Rebecca Hamilton Onthank Primary School, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. This past term I used the Storyline approach to implement an environmental studies topic of dinosaurs with my P3 class in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. The children became palaeontologists for the term and worked together to open a dinosaur museum! They were very excited to get to work ...
When the invitation to attend the marriage of Storyline Design Director, Jeff Creswell and Caryl Menkhus, Director of Training for the Godly Play Foundation, arrived in Newton Mearns I was delighted to find that my diary was clear for the last week in November so I wasted no time in contacting my travel agent. ...
Jill L Wells & Kathy Robson A new, exciting Storyline project involving three secondary schools and five primary schools is taking place in North Yorkshire, England at the moment. Inspired by an ‘Introduction to Storyline’ presentation run by Jill Wells, Kathy Robson, Subject leader and Assistant Headteacher at Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering, researched the ...
Ana Sofia Pimenta I am a student from Denmark who, for the last couple of months, has experienced life working in a Scottish school. This has been quite an adventure for me and what a culture change I met. I have seen how Storyline has been used. I have seen how good an influence a ...
Andressa Felipin who is a member of the team of Second Language teachers (pictured below) has indicated how useful they are finding the books produced by Gisela Ehlers and her group for the Comenius Project “Creative Dialogues”. “This sharing can only be of great assistance to us,” she says,” and it will help us develop ...
Congratulations Rhonda Mitchell-Barrett who will receive her doctorate in January Her thesis was based on an analysis of the Storyline method in primary school; its theoretical underpinnings and its impact on pupils’ intrinsic motivation. This study explored the relationship between the Scottish Storyline teaching method and pupils’ levels of motivation when engaged in a Storyline ...