Developing a culture of storytelling across your primary school

Date: Friday 8^th October 2010

Venue: The Open University in the North, Hawks Road, Gateshead NE8 3DF

Times: 9:30 am to 4 pm

Cost: £30 (booking before 24^th September 2010)

About Tim Rylands

Tim is an innovative and BECTA award winning educator with a national reputation for inspiring teachers.

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Course aimed at:

Primary school leaders, Literacy co-ordinators, ICT co-ordinators, primary teachers, NQT teachers and teaching assistants.
Local Authority Primary Literacy and ICT advisers and consultants.
Initial Teacher Training teaching students.

There are only 50 places available for this national course and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Overview

Speaking and listening are at the core of effective teaching and learning.

Storytyne is an intensive and dynamic one day course for teachers in key stages 1 and 2, led by Tim Rylands and practical workshops led by experienced practitioners . In developing a culture of storytelling across your primary school, you will develop an understanding how using stories and creating narrative are important elements in enhancing and extending learning.

Objectives for the day:

Share the benefits of using storytelling across the primary curriculum
Gain practical support in developing storytelling and technology in the classroom
Understand how storytelling can raise attainment and engagement in speaking and listening, reading and writing

Outcomes:

Participants will encounter new ideas and strategies for using stories and ICT, that can be shared with your whole school
You will meet and share with other local and national teachers, leading to further collaboration between schools.
Participants will receive ICT software and resources to enable them to replicate and further develop the activities in the workshops in your own schools.

Workshops:

We have exciting speakers leading workshops, including Tim Rylands, an inspirational teacher who uses ICT to enhance the development of literacy in innovative ways.

Tim Meek of Scholastic, who has been using films and creating video games to inspire reluctant writing with boys.

Bill Lord, has worked extensively with primary schools on a range of exciting speaking and listening projects to build speaking and listening skills.

Additional workshop leaders will be confirmed here in the near future

There will also be an update on Vital’s Durham University storytelling research project and opportunities for participants to become involved. In addition, a number of commercial providers of storytelling resources will also be present on the day with discounted services and products.