Granny’s Garden Friends Audio Story

This story and song by Ruth and Diana is about the wildlife that visits Ruth’s own magical garden at the edge of a lake. It is a story which will provide the perfect starting point for young children to develop their observational and listening skills, while enjoying the natural world around them.  The audio story and book are now available to buy in our download store.

 Granny’s Garden Friends download includes: MP3 audio story and song, Granny’s Garden Friends song and a set of notes packed full of ways to use the story across the curriculum. Why not buy the book too!

Neil Griffiths Audio Stories from Red Robin Books

Neil Griffiths is the originator of the highly original, award winning Storysacks. Neil’s stories are written for children aged 3 to 7, and adults that are young at heart and are illustrated by fabulous artists from around the world. They feature strong storylines, memorable characters and enchanting language, creating timeless, unforgettable stories that can be enjoyed time and again!  

 You can now download Neil’s audio stories and buy his books from our download store.

The BETT Awards Finalists have just been announced.  Our innovative MP3 audio system has won a place in the finals for the prestigious BETT ICT awards 2011. StoryPhones is a finalist in the Digital Devices category and faced stiff competition to achieve this.  The winners will be announced on January 12^th 2011 at the BETT awards evening.

We are all excited at being a BETT finalist.  The BETT Awards recognise exemplary technological products and innovations for education and children and to be a BETT finalist is a great achievement for us.

We are looking forward to attending the ceremony next year and hopefully come away with an award!

 Having won two Gold Awards at last year’s Practical Pre School Awards we were delighted to win another gold award at this September’s Awards.  With a score of 91.5% the judges felt that ‘the Little Listener was a robust, easy to use player just the right size for little hands and the children all enjoyed listening to songs and stories’.

 The Little Listener is our latest product.  It is a rugged, easy to use loud speaking and recording MP3 player, ideal for little people and the big ones too.  We want to make listening as easy as possible and our Practical Pre School Gold Award judged by children and practitioners shows that our Little Listener does just that.

 The Little Listener is accompanied by the StoryPhones software, an audio management tool as well as a media player.  Our customers can also access our growing online download store.

Having travelled north last week, this time we headed south to Olympia for the TES Education Show 2010.  Thank you to everyone who visited us.  We really enjoy meeting new visitors to our stand and got a fantastic response to our MP3 players.  We were also able to tell everyone the news that our new product, the Little Listener, our loud speaking MP3 player had received a Practical Pre School Gold Award.

 The feedback from our existing customers was brilliant.  The most popular comment was ‘the children are loving them’. We are always delighted to hear this since this has always been our aim with StoryPhones, to make listening easy for children and to open up the world of audio.

 Eleanor, one of our directors also lead one of the free workshops.  The basic message was ‘Think Audio’ or how can you use technology to make audio resources a regular part of a child’s learning environment – easy with digital technology. Thank you to everyone who attended.

 We now have a quiet time back in the office until BETT 2011.

Once again we had a warm welcome in Glasgow at the Scottish Learning Festival.  Thank you to everyone who visited our stand.  We met lots of new people and enjoyed talking to our existing customers.  All the feedback tells us that their children are enjoying using StoryPhones and having fun listening to stories and music.

 This year we had our new product available to order.  The Little Listener, a listen out loud MP3 player ideal for very young children and the not so young! We were also able to tell everyone how much our download store had grown since 2009.  We have hundreds of titles available and you can now order hard copies of books and resources to accompany the downloads.

 We will definitely be back next year and look forward to meeting everyone again.