Once again we will be exhibiting StoryPhones at the Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow and at the TES exhibition in London.

At these events we will be giving people the first chance to see our brand new product “Little Listener”. To celebrate this we will be running a prize draw for anyone that visits our stands to win a brand new Little Listener MP3 player.

The Scottish Learning Festival takes place at the SECC in Glasgow on Wednesday 22nd September and Thursday 23rd September. You can visit us on stand EY3.

TES London takes place at Olympia in London on Friday 1st October and Saturday 2nd October. You can visit us on Stand E9.

The StoryPhones team are once again travelling the length and breadth of the country showcasing the marvellous benefits of StoryPhones. Below is a list of all the events and venues that we are due to be attending. If you want any more information regarding any of the events please get in touch. We are confirming new events all the time and will be posting new details as they happen.

September

22/23.09.10 – The Scottish Learning Festival 2010, Stand EY3, SECC, Glasgow

October

01/02.10.10 – TES London, Srtand E9, Olympia, London

08.10.10 – Walsall ICT Conference

November

19.11.10 – Durham Primary Heads Conference

January

12.01.11 – 15.01.11 – BETT 2011, Stand V35, Olympia, London

February

17.02.11 – Hertfordshire ICT Conference

March

17.03.11-19.03.11 – The Education Show 2011, Stand F66, Birmingham NEC

More Stories from Giraffe World

Ingrid has written more new stories and songs about the Neckmann family and Giraffe World.  Ingrid’s stories and songs are an ideal starting point for older children to discuss their emotions, relationships, and world issues such as the environment.  Voyage under the sea with Captain Gurgle, join the Neckmann family as they start up a new business or find out how Necky Becky and Nexi sort out an argument.

New Titles, includes audio story, songs, pictures and lyrics

An Ocean Adventure with Giraffe World Tours

Nexi’s Neckwarmers

Singing With the Stiffnex

Interactive Stories from Shoo Fly

You can now purchase the interactive books to accompany Shoo Fly’s unique audio stories and poems. Titles are available from their award winning I-Fly Stories. Shoo Fly’s award winning stories entrall children with inventive and humorous tales and songs.  The narrative poems for age ranges 5-9, include engaging interactive animated book with narration and supporting resources to inspire children to become authors and create their own books. Price includes postage and packing.

New Titles include:

Jack and the Beans Talk

Little Red Hiding Hood

The Gingery Boy

The Three Little Cowboy Builders I-Fly book and Story Creator Software

Planet Rhyme Time

One Small Step

StoryPhones sponsors the Teacher Award

On Thursday 10th June we were privileged to attend the Northern Gird ICT in Education Awards at the Marriot Hotel in Gosforth. StoryPhones was attending as the sponsors of the Teacher Award.

The huge room was full of children, teachers and parents from 30 schools around the region all there because of the wonderful ways they are using ICT as in a huge variety of ways to develop their learning. Down one side of the hall were displays of the children and young people’s work and ideas. I saw displays which included animated stories, wonderful digital pictures, and resources to highlight e-safety. All of the activities the children had been participating in were creative, detailed and highly developed showing how well children are using ICT in schools, but also highlighting the dedication of the teachers and adults who were supporting them.

This is why StoryPhones was delighted to sponsor the Teacher’s award, and Simon Johnson was there to present this to Mark Darling who teaches at St John CE Primary School. He was also presented with one of StoryPhones loud speaking MP3 players to take back with him.

The whole event was great fun, thanks also to the Northern Grid For Learning who had gone to great lengths to create a festive and exciting awards ceremony for the children.

New catalogue Summer 2010

Our new summer 2010 catalogue is now available and we have added 100’s of new titles from our existing publishers and from some unique and exciting new names!  Click here to download our catalogue.

The BookShelf store now has lovely and exciting resources from the following new publishers.

Books@Press

Chunky Tunes

Ingrid Sylvestre

Yellow Door

Collins Language Clubs

Letterland

We have also expanded the range of titles from our popular existing publishers

Shoo Fly

Walker Books

Lawrence Education

Ros Bayley

Adam Bushnell

To see the full range of our resources, click on this link.

If you would like to order content credit, or find out more about StoryPhones phone 0845 652 0906.

French Club and Spanish Club are packed with songs, rhymes, jokes and tongue twisters designed to be engaging, memorable and enjoyable. Children as young as 3 and as old as 12 will enjoy singing along to the catchy rhythms. 

Learning language from a young age should be a fun, stress-free activity. By listening and joining in as native speaking children have fun in French or Spanish, your child will be learning without even realising it. Topics such as animals, colours and the days of the week are all covered, and specially-designed tongue twisters help to ensure that the pronunciation of some of the trickier aspects of French pronunciation prove to be no obstacle at all. 

Free accompanying full-colour, illustrated transcript to assist you and your children as they learn.

Last night the annual North East Business Awards took place at Hardwick HallHotel in Sedgefield. Ameeca Ltd the creators of StoryPhones won the Newcomer of the Year Award, beating some great opposition to the top Prize. 

After receiving the award Simon Johnson, Managing director of Ameeca Ltd, commented “We are absolutely thrilled to have won this prestigious award. Everyone at Ameeca has worked so hard this last year and it is great to be rewarded in this way. The challenge is now to push on and continue to make improvements in how audio resources can be used within the classroom.”

Last night the annual Durham and Wearside regional heats of the North East Business Awards took place at the Ramside Hall Hotel in Durham. Ameeca Ltd the creators of StoryPhones won the Newcomer of the Year Award and were finalists in the Innovation Award category. 

After receiving the award Simon Johnson, Managing director of Ameeca Ltd, commented “We are absolutely thrilled to have won this prestigious award. Everyone at Ameeca has worked so hard this last year and it is great to be rewarded in this way. The challenge is now to push on and continue to make improvements in how audio resources can be used within the classroom.”

The North East Business Awards finals will be held on 29th April at Hardwick Hall in Sedgefield, where Ameeca Ltd will be a finalist.

Dance in a Bag provide a range of resources for dance and movement for young children. These unique and innovative resources lay the foundations for reading and language, maths, dance, music, movement, drama and PSE. The products consist of music tracks on a number of themes and also a set of physical resources.

Most of these resources are a little different to most that we have in the BookShelf store.  When you purchase the downloads for Dance in a Bag you are also ordering a full Dance in a Bag kit which will be sent to you by normal post.  The full cost of the kit and downloads is included in the download price and is deducted from your account balance when you buy.

We have four titles very popular from Dance in a Bag: Look at Me, I’m A Star!, Reasons and Rhymes, The Dragon’s Surprise and Dance in a Bag Favourites.  The Favourites set contains 12 lovely music tracks but does not have any other resources with it.

For more information, go to www.danceinabag.co.uk

The StoryPhones team are once again travelling the length and breadth of the country showcasing the marvellous benefits of StoryPhones. Below is a list of all the events and venues that we are due to be attending. If you want any more information regarding any of the events please get in touch. We are confirming new events all the time and will be posting new details as they happen.

February

05.02.10 – Cambridgeshire Early Years Conference

26.02.10 – 27.02.10 – East Riding Early years Conference

March

03.03.10 – East Riding SEN Conference

04.03.10 – 05.03.10 – IAPS Conference (Chester)

04.03.10 – 06.03.10 – The Birmingham Education Show

17.03.10 – NAACE ICT Conference (Blackpool)

17.03.10 – Foundation Phase Conference (Swansea)

17.03.10 – Cumbria ICT Conference

18.03.10 – Foundation Phase Conference (Cardiff)

18.03.10 – Harringey Early Years Conference

18.03.10 – 19.03.10 – Milton Keynes Early years Inclusion Conference

23.03.10 – Foundation Phase Conference (Cardiff)

24.03.10 – Foundation Phase Conference ( Cardiff)

April

21.04.10 – Foundation Phase Conference (Cymru)

22.04.10 – Foundation Phase Conference (Denbighshire)

23.04.10 – 25.04.10 – Teach Primary and Special Needs North (Manchester)

May

28.05.10 – Durham Early years Conference