This is a very busy time of year for events, conferences and exhibitons. If you are attending any of the events below, please come along to meet us and find out more about StoryPhones. One thing we often notice is that once we start chatting, practitioners are soon telling us about how they could use StoryPhones in their classroom or nursery. It’s also a pleasure to catch up with our customers to hear how their children are using StoryPhones.

We always run a prize draw and have special show offers.

If you would like to meet us, here is the list of events we will be attending this term.

Reading Conference, Essex 27 February

Early Years Professional Day, Essex 27-28  Feb

EYFS Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne 2-3  March

IAPS Conference, Cirencester 7-8  March

EYFS Conference, Shrewsbury 7  March

EYFS Event, Nottingham 7 March

EYFS Conference, Middlesbrough 9  March

Early Education Conference, Cumbria 10  March

The Education Show 15-17 March

EYFS ICT Event, Camden 23 March

EYFS Event, Manchester 27 March

What are you doing for World Book Day this year? You could share a book by listening together to an audio story. Audio stories bring the written word alive with voices, music, sounds and songs. Listening together to a story can be  as pleasurable and memorable an experience as sharing a book. You can listen to old favourites or explore a new story, often if children have listened to a story first it spurs them to find the book and read it for themselves.

StoryPhones has a free audio story for you to download and share with your children on World Book Day. The Four Dragons is a lovely tale from China and tells the story of how four dragons defy the Jade Emperor to help bring rain to a drought stricken land.

Download the audio story The Four Dragons.

Download the story and ideas The Four Dragons PDF.

You can find out more about World Book Day from their wonderful website. If you are based in Wales you might like to visit the World Book Day website for Wales.

However you choose to enjoy and share a book on World Book Day, have fun!

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

St David is the patron saint of Wales and his special day is always celebrated on March 1st. St David is very important to the Welsh people and his day is celebrated with parades and special events. If you are planning any activities for this day with your children, there are some good websites offering free resources such as audio stories, songs and posters.

Our good friends at Storynory have a lovely story telling of the life of St David and this can be downloaded for free and imported into the StoryPhones software. It’s ideal for listening out loud and very suitable for KS1 and KS2 children. If you would like to download the story of St David or find out more about all Storynory’s free audio stories you can visit their website here.

The Early Learning HQ and NGFL Cymru also have resources to download or listen to. If you would like to learn more about these please click on their names to visit their websites.