In November 2012 it was announced at last that the BBC CBeebies channel had commissioned twenty-six 14-minute live-action dramas, from Coutts’s Cromarty-based production company Move On Up. Katie Morag to film on location on the Isle of Lewis". Highlands and Islands Enterprise. 14 February 2013. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017 . Retrieved 14 July 2014. We had a great time. What could be more fun than sitting in a room full of bright, funny, creative people, scones a-plenty, reading Katie Morag stories to each other and then working out how we could adapt them?

The perky little girl made her debut in Katie Morag Delivers the Mail (1984) and to date fourteen stories have appeared, as well as several omnibus volumes. If you would like to experience the world in which Katie Morag lives there are many many adventures to be had in any of the Scottish Hebridean Islands,The series has been dubbed into Scottish Gaelic, for broadcast on BBC Alba. Known as Ceitidh Mòrag, the series began on 7 January 2014. [15] Cast and characters [ edit ] Main cast [ edit ] While you’re teaching this topic, you can use these colourful display posters to decorate your classroom. They feature key characters and settings such as Liam, Grannie, the Redburn Bridge, and the Post Office.

The series was scripted by a team comprising Sergio Casci, Stuart Hepburn, Martin McCardie, Jan Storie, and Louise Wylie. They used the method of Team Writing For TV. This ensures that the concepts of theme, tone and narrative coherence are successfully carried across the large number of episodes of a long running TV Series. Crucially, it requires all writers to be present at all storylining sessions, and for detailed beat outlines to be created by the entire storylining team. [6] Casting [ edit ] You might also be interested in our differentiated reading comprehension exercise on the Scottish islands, which comes in an interactive PDF format. Jaine Lumsden, Artistic Evaluation: Katie Morag at the Citizens, Scottish Arts Council, 20 October 2005In the end the series was filmed a ginormous bit in the Outer Hebrides in Lewis and a wee bit in the Inner Hebrides, on Coll. QCA Geography Year 2 Unit 3: An Island Home, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 2000. As of January 2011, a Google search for KS1+"Katie+Morag"+"An+Island+Home" finds almost 3,400 hits Family: Katie Morag lives with her parents Isobel and Peter, her little brother Liam and her baby sister Flora Ann. Mr McColl is the shopkeeper in the village shop and Mrs McColl is the postmistress. The Isle of Struay is a fictional Scottish island, home to Katie Morag. Here is where she has all of her fun adventures with her little brother and two grannies. Watch the video below to take a tour of this beautiful island with Katie Morag herself! Katie Morag to return in new series on CBeebies and CBBC". BBC News. 18 June 2014 . Retrieved 13 July 2014.

Some of the existing stories would prove impossible for us to adapt; some of the scenarios were totally impractical, which is why it was really excellent to have the director and producers there, for their practical reigning-in of the blue-sky thinking! This presentation offers important information about the Isle of Coll for kids. Topics covered include: Stephen Fraser, Katie Morag gets politically correct, Scotland on Sunday, 18 July 1999. Accessed via NewsBank In November 2012 it was announced that the BBC's CBeebies channel had commissioned a series of 26 14-minute live-action dramas, to be made by Coutts' Cromarty-based production company Move on Up. [19] [20] If you do manage to find some of the locations we filmed in, please be aware of your safety and also that there are people who live and work very close by , who were very kind and patient with us, and we don't want their lives to be disrupted in any way so please be sensitive. Also parking is not easy, as we found when we were planning how our cast and crew would arrive on set!I'm totally not looking forward to seeing myself. I'll have to watch though, but I might hide my eyes! Main cast Move On Up is based in Cromarty, North East of Inverness. From the outset we were determined to keep as much of the production in the Highlands as we could, beginning with the writing. You can use this PowerPoint to introduce your learners to the topic of the Scottish Islands and to lead on to learning about the history, landscape, and culture of each of the different islands or island groups. During the discussions we talked about doing an episode that explored the theme of death, even in a small way. Our series already portrayed all kinds of emotional, sometimes uncomfortable feelings, and we didn’t want to leave out grief. But we couldn’t have one of our human characters die; it would be far too traumatic for our young viewers. We felt we couldn’t even have a beloved animal die for the same reason. But we could perhaps allude to the inevitability of one dying, thereby creating a natural setting for the big questions that might emanate from any child. It’s difficult to find words of comfort - especially for those of us who have no religious faith. But the more we talk about death and dying the more healthily we can expect our children to cope with it when, in due course (but hopefully not for a very long time) they encounter it.

Generations of readers had cherished each syllable and every tiny detail of her illustrations for over thirty years. We had to make the programmes authentic to the books - funny, touching, beautiful and wise, and make them resonate, for Mairi, for the BBC and for Katie Morag fans everywhere. The book also contains positive themes relating to diversity and getting along with people from different walks of life...and of course a happy ending! Never in a thousand years! With the first book, I was given a brief to write and illustrate a picture storybook. My own children were teenagers by this point and so it was a self-indulgent nostalgia re-run of my children’s upbringing on the Isle of Coll. Where-ever you go, we know that if you go to the Highlands and Islands with an open heart you will most certainly find what you are looking for... We recommend the area as an ideal family holiday, Just like the Katie Morag character in the books, and on the screen, everything is there for YOU to make what you will of it. There are wild beaches with all their sea life to be found, ancient history in the standing stones, incredible bird life, wild moors, unbelieveable flowering machair in the summer time, boat trips, old ruins, little secret coves, strange legends, ceilidhs and summer shows, and of course delicious local produce to sample - it's all there . KATIE MORAG wins RTS Scotland Award". Sayle Screen. 19 June 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014 . Retrieved 13 July 2014.Before disillusionment sets in, and you decide to take the boat to Mull or Rum instead of Coll, I can assure Katie Morag aficionados that the first clutch of Struay characters in the first books did have Collach forbears, old friends. Granma Mainland, however, is my mother visiting Coll in the ’60s, handbag and all. A great resource to follow on from this one is the Let's Learn About Scottish Islands Differentiated Reading Comprehension worksheet collection. These simple, brightly designed worksheets feature selections of vocabulary and empty boxes for your learners to fill in. They also feature some text and follow up questions, and space for a drawing!As they are differentiated, these worksheets are accessible to the varying ability levels of your class! The biggest difference is that there are more episodes than there were stories. The scriptwriters have taken the characters, the locations and the relationships and created six brand new stories and six special episodes. They have come up with new original ideas while still being very faithful to the original stories. I have written one script myself which was a very different process because I had no illustrations to rely on. Seventy young redheads hope for stardom in Katie Morag film, Aberdeen Press and Journal, 30 June 2005. Accessed via NewsBank.