We are always pleased to hear how childen are benefitting from using their StoryPhones systems. Durning the past year children across the world have also had the opportunity to gain from our innovative MP3 audio systems. We wanted to share a comment that has just arrived from one particular school in Australia.

“We have loved using this resource. The benefits over a traditional listening post is the lack of all the wires. The students are able to get on task quicker and pack up quicker since they don’t have to detangle wires etc. From a teachers point of view it is quite easy to put the files on and off the devices. I can see benefits using these over iPods due to the ease of transferring files. It is also a benefit to be able to put different content on the different StoryPhones. All in all they are a great product.”  Thank you to Hambledon State School, Queensland, Australia for this comment.

 The Little Listener is our loudspeaking, recording MP3 play, ideal for listening out loud and recording your children’s stories and ideas. The rechargable battery let’s you and your children take listening any where you want, indoors or outside.

You can now choose from six vibrant colours – red, blue, green, yellow, purple  and orange.

Everyone here at StoryPhones has their favourite colour, which one will be yours? If you would like to find out about all of the Little Listener’s features, you can visit our website by clicking here.

StoryPhones has been shorted listed for an ERA Award.  These awards  focus on the resources, services and people that  make a practical impact on learning and the day-to-day work of the teachers in the classroom.

We are delighted to have been shortlisted in the ‘Best Early Years Resource or Equipment – involving ICT’. The winners will be announced on 18th March during the Education Show. So, fingers crossed!

StoryPhones, along with the rest of the country has struggled on through the snow this week. Well done to everyone who has managed to get into work or school.  We are based in County Durham and have seen a lot of the cold, white stuff this week.  However, these are the views from our office window, so there are compensations.  Ducks apparently don’t feel the cold which is probably just as well.  Some snowy StoryPhones activities will be posted soon.

StoryPhones is now tweeting.  We will be tweeting about the latest StoryPhones news, ideas, new resources and events.  You will be able to find out it first on Twitter. Just follow @StoryPhones.  If you want to sign up to follow us click here.

To read our latest tweets click on the Twitter icon above.

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.”