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.

June

15 – 18.06.10 – Leicester Early Years Conference (Eleanor Johnson will be leading a workshop on 17^th June at 4.15)

17.06.10 – East Riding Early Years MFL Conference, Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Willerby

21.06.10 – Manchester Early Years Conference

24/25.06.10 – ESIS Outdoor conference, South Wales

25.06.10 – Northern Grid For Learning Conference Newcastle

July

02.07.10 – ESIS Good Practice conference, South Wales

06.07.10 -  SWGFL  ICT conference Torquay, Riviera International Conference Centre

07.07.10 -  SWGFL  ICT conference Bristol, UWE Conference and Exhibition Centre

6/7.07.10 – Leeds Literacy Conference

September

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

October

01/02.10.10 – TES London, Olympia, London

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.

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

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

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