Story Spinner Learning is full of ideas, inspiration and the plans you need to quickly and easily start using the Story Spinner throughout your entire school. The pack includes a DVD, CD-Rom and a booklet.
Many of your colleagues around the country have asked for support in sharing the potential of the stories across the school. In response, we have spent the last year supplying full-day, half-day and twilight Story Spinner training sessions to schools and LAs. We’ve worked extensively with top literacy professionals and teachers and together we’ve created a truly effective way of putting this training into your hands – Story Spinner Learning.
We designed it with you in mind. To help you and all of the teachers in your school save time and easily put stories at the heart of a truly creative curriculum. The award winning Story Spinner DVDs will engage and motivate your children, and are proven to have a profound impact on their reading, writing, speaking and listening.
“These professional development materials are fab! The planning, in particular, will definitely be of use to teachers. With all the uncertainty in education at the moment, the Story Spinner resource remains as good as ever and whatever happens with the curriculum, it will fit!”
- Liz Sharp, Literacy Consultant, Milton Keynes
Included on the DVD:
• An inspirational introduction by Phil McDermott, the storyteller.
• Eve Bearne (Cambridge University) talks about her research findings and how and why the stories have had the powerful impact shown in key aspects of literacy.
• Pam Dowson (Cambridge University) gives an extensive guide to planning. The planning model is based on the Teaching Sequence recomended by the National Strategies.
• Rebecca Harris and her Year 2 children work through a narrative unit, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, using the plan included on the CD-Rom. (KS1)
• Jacqui Hatchard’s year 4 children bring ‘Talk for Writing’ to life. They achieve exceptional results in their writing in just weeks. (KS2)
• There are two complete stories included ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Granddad and the Laundry Basket’.
The Booklet contains suggestions to guide staff training sessions, including ‘How to use the Story Spinner to expand existing plans’ or to develop speaking and listening.
The CD-Rom contains quick links to many areas of the curriculum, to save you time and give you lots of ideas to help you easily get started using the stories. And there is extensive planning for 7 entire units of work, one story from each DVD. You can see a sample of this planning here.
If you are considering purchasing the Story Spinner DVDs for your school, take the Story Spinner Learning on a 14-day trial. There are two complete stories included, so you have nothing to risk.
“The video clip of the Y4 class is particularly good and is an excellent example of what can be done with the stories.”
David Reedy, Senior Adviser (Primary Language and Communication) London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.