Tag Archives: Argyll & Bute Schools

Fuselab – creativity, science, art and engineering for 16-20 year olds

Events, offers, Science, Secondary schools,

HUMANS ARE ABOUT TO POPULATE ANOTHER PLANET AND YOU COULD BE A PART OF IT. The application process for Fuselab has been extended until this Friday 17th May 2013. Anyone aged 16-20 is eligible to apply and successful applicants will be offered a travel bursary and provided with their accommodation and meals. We’re looking for 80 innovative and creative minds – scientists, artists and engineers – to help us develop a sustainable way of life, free from the constraints of the systems and structures we live by here on Earth. Challenge your thinking through Continue reading Fuselab – creativity, science, art and engineering for 16-20 year olds →

AB Awards- celebrating youth achievement.

Events, Offers & Info, Secondary schools

We are pleased to announce that the first Argyll and Bute Celebrating Youth Achievement event the AB Awards will take place on Thursday 19th September 2013. Based in Oban’s refurbished Phoenix Cinema, the authority wide event will celebrate young people aged 11 to 25 through eight categories as well as those who have achieved Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards and Youth Achievement Awards. The AB Awards, is a partnership project between Argyll and Bute Youth Forum and Argyll and Bute Council’s Youth Services and has been made possible by the generous support of sponsors. Full information and a nomination form is available HERE

Argyll and Bute Scottish Youth Parliament Elections: Make your vote count!

Messages, Secondary schools

The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) represents Scotland’s young people. Our democratically elected members, aged 14-25, listen to and recognise the issues that are most important to young people, ensuring that their voices are heard by decision makers. Continue reading Argyll and Bute Scottish Youth Parliament Elections: Make your vote count! →

Fringe Schools Poster Competition 2013

Competitions, Expressive arts, Primary schools, Secondary schools

The search for the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Poster has begun!
The Fringe Schools Poster Competition is open to all Scottish students aged 5 – 16. We are looking for a unique and eye-catching poster design that represents the variety and vibrancy of the Fringe – the rest is up to you.
Use our learning resources, including lesson plans linked to Curriculum for Excellence experiences and outcomes, to introduce your pupils to the Fringe and inspire them to create winning posters! Continue reading Fringe Schools Poster Competition 2013 →

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park offer Travel Grant Scheme for schools.

Offers & Info, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, School trips, Secondary schools

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park has launched a new pilot scheme to help schools and outreach groups experience the great outdoors in the Park by offering an Educational Travel Grant. With forests to explore, landscapes to walk and climb, lochs and rivers to sail on and rich wildlife and history to discover, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park provides the perfect outdoor classroom for schools and groups. Continue reading Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park offer Travel Grant Scheme for schools. →

ARGYLL COLLECTION WRITING COMP Winners!

Expressive arts, Literacy, Primary schools

CAST is glad to announce the winners of this year’s Argyll Collection Primary Writing Competition. There has been a large number of entries of a very high standard and the judges had a difficult time in selecting winning entries. We will be posting the winning stories on SAL shortly. Thanks to all who embraced the competition and entered your wonderful stories.
The winners for 2012 are:
first: Sylvie Lawson, Ardrishaig Primary
second: Elinor Baker, Port Ellen Primary
third: Jamie Thompson, Rhu Primary

SAL DEVELOPMENT

Debate, Learning Tech

Now that SAL has settled in to our schools and has been widely embraced as a platform for sharing, we would like to develop the site to accommodate any additional uses that you might find practical. Please click on the ‘SAL DEVELOPMENT’ post title above to access the full post and then use the ‘comment’ facility to express your development ideas. (Suggestions welcomed from all pupils and staff).

A&B at the Scottish Learning Festival.

Events

Argyll & Bute Council ran a stand within the ‘Local Authority Village’ at the Scottish Learning Festival last week. The SECC was the venue for the festival which attracts delegates and speakers from the UK and further afield. We met delegates from Estonia, Iceland, France and Holland as well as many many Scottish teaching professionals. On our stand we offered visitors the chance to make an animation using an ipad and full set inc. lighting all borrowed from Kilninver Primary. We also encouraged comments on the theme of the Festival this year which was ‘Creative Learning….Creative Thinking’. Visitors were asked to write on a blue cloud which was then pinned up to decorate the stand. Continue reading A&B at the Scottish Learning Festival. →

Projects needed for SLF Showcase!

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The Scottish Learning Festival Creative Learning…Creative Thinking
We have lots of plans for the Argyll and Bute stand at the Scottish Learning Festival. One of the most important aspects is to showcase some of the excellent activities in our schools. With this in mind could you please email Fiona Blakey a short paragraph about any of your projects that we could showcase that falls within:

Creative Learning…Creative Thinking. Continue reading Projects needed for SLF Showcase! →

Olympic Themed Youth Games in Oban

Active Schools, Events, Expressive arts, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, School trips, Secondary schools

A spectacle of dance, music and colour, inspired by the Olympic Games was showcased at the opening ceremony of the Argyll and Bute Youth Games in Oban on Thursday 14th June.
A record 598 of our first and second year pupils from Argyll and Bute’s secondary schools staged their own version of the Olympics to welcome in Bank of Scotland National School Sport Week.
A specially composed mass fusion Olympic themed dance was performed at Mossfield Stadium by all of the pupils participating in the games. Continue reading Olympic Themed Youth Games in Oban →

Coming up! Kodamba CPD: Creative Active Music Making

CPD, Expressive arts, Primary schools,

Kodamba is a music programme created for Argyll and Bute schools offering free CPD sessions.
LEVEL 1 CPD (P2-5)
15 May Lochgilphead Primary School
17 May Kirn primary school, Dunoon
22 May Park primary, Oban
24 May Dalintober primary, Campbeltown
30 May Rhu primary, Helensburgh
All sessions run from 4-5.45pm Continue reading Coming up! Kodamba CPD: Creative Active Music Making →