Intergenerational Storyline Bringing the Generations Together in North Tyneside

This article has been written to provide the reader with insight into a council run Intergenerational service based in North Tyneside, UK. It involves partnerships between schools and Social Services, who create curriculum led projects. These are primarily school based, that bring generations together from the local community. The focus of the article is a teaching method called Storyline, which through EU funded programmes, became a European model of best practice for Intergenerational learning. It has been developed successfully in North Tyneside to bring younger and older people together, giving them a narrative theme to study which sets intellectual challenges for the participants to respond to.