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.

StoryPhones has recently been reviewed in Teach Primary Magazine and Early Years Educator to view these reviews please click the relevant link. Teach Primary and EYE

Thanks to everyone who visited us at the BETT show 2010. It was great to see so many people interested in StoryPhones and we were really busy all 4 days despite the snow!!
If you have any further questions regarding StoryPhones please contact Joanne by either joannes@ameeca.co.uk or 01207524847

For any international queries please contact simon@ameeca.co.uk or piero@ameeca.co.uk

The Language Factory has created content sets from their award winning Modern Foreign Language Resources and these are now available to buy in BookShelf, the StoryPhones download store. If you would like an easy way to introduce your children to French or Spanish, then these content sets are an ideal solution.

The Language Factory resources are simple and fun to use. Children pick up rhythm, rap and rhyme very easily and so the repetitive nature of the songs and raps help children learn the correct pronunciation and intonation for that language.

Each content set provides MP3 song tracks and PDF resources to support the audio tracks. Children can learn the French vocabulary for greetings and weather or the Spanish vocabulary for greetings and colours.

The lively songs and raps can be taught in sections and the whole song and vocabulary can be built up over time giving young children a chance to develop their language skills and gain confidence with the vocabulary and pronunciation. Once the children are familiar with the songs and raps, they can sing along to a karaoke version of the song.

To find out more please visit  www.language-factory.co.uk

At the recent Practical Pre-School Awards 2009 StoryPhones have come away with two prestigious and sought after Gold Awards. To read more, you can view the full article here.

StoryPhones is pleased to announce that LCP (www.lcp.co.uk), the publisher of a fantastic range of teaching resources, has agreed to make a range of audio titles available for StoryPhones. Thirteen new titles will be added to the BookShelf On-line store over the next few weeks as the start of a raneg of titles to be added in the future.