posted by Rhonda McFarlane, Funding Officer, Chief Executive’s Department

Year of Young People National Lottery Fund launches today!

The Year of Young People National Lottery Fund opens today and is a joint scheme from Scotland’s National Lottery distributors, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund, sportscotland, and Spirit of 2012 a UK Trust endowed with Big Lottery funds. It offers funding of between £3,000 and £10,000 to heritage, community and sports projects that are run for and by young people aged eight to 26 years old and that improve their health and wellbeing.

The available pot of £550,000 is for projects that:

• Encourage positive mental health for young people;
• Inspire young people to lead active lives;
• Involve young people in the development, design, running and evaluation of the project
• Celebrate and share young people’s achievements.

HLF are dealing with enquiries and application help: YOYPFund@hlf.org.uk or 0131 225 945

Total funding pot of £550k

Open to not for profit orgs and schools

A new joint Lottery grant scheme led by HLF for work with young people, £3k-£10k grants, two deadlines: 30 April 2018 and 18 June 2018

Website is here to apply get info: http://national-lottery-yoyp.org.uk/  http://bit.ly/2pqbK1o

posted by Rhonda McFarlane, Funding Officer, Chief Executive’s Department

Attached is the latest issue of the Funding Alert Newsletter. The Newsletter features the latest funding opportunities from the Grants 4 Schools website over the last 2 weeks.   This issue contains 14 pages of the latest funding opportunities available to schools.  .

Highlights in the issue include:

– Grants of up to £3,000 are available for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) projects run at a primary or secondary school or college.

– Grants of up to £15,000 available to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

– Grants of up to £12,000 available to schools for projects that encourage young people’s interest in the countryside; and literacy, numeracy and science

– Grants of up to £100,000 available to high achieving schools for capital or equipment projects relating to the teaching of science and technology; or projects involving libraries, languages, music or the arts.

For further information on these; and other funding opportunities available to your school, please see the attached Newsletter.  Funding Alert 22nd February 2018

posted by Morna Duncan, Administration Assistant, Schools & Learning

For information, please see attached information received from the manager of GoApe!.

I am the site manager for GoApe! Crathes near Banchory. As a national company we are launching a creative writing competition for young adventurers and cheeky monkeys alike aged between 4 and 12. The competition has 2 categories for all writing abilities and is split for ages 4-7 and 8-12.

We would absolutely love for to have some really creative youngsters in Scotland to win some fantastic prizes including a family adventure holiday worth £5000 and is due to run from the 12^th March 2018 to 15^th April 2018. We feel this would be a great opportunity to get the pupils involved in some creative writing either in school or at home (even with the incentive of some amazing prizes). I have attached an electronic copy of the competition details.  

posted by Angela Duce, Senior Clerical Officer, Schools and Learning

Are you a nursery or Primary 1 teacher? Take a look at Ziggy’s BIG competition from @RoadSafetyScot. Find out more about the game that makes #roadsafety fun for kids at www.gosafewithziggy.com/ziggys-big-day-out #GoSafeWithZiggy

posted by Andy Garnett, Active Schools Lead Coordinator, Schools & Learning 

Please see the attached document for further information regarding the  SDS Junior Boccia Development Programme 2018

posted by Carol Lyon, Schools & Learning Support Officer

Sumdog maths contest start on Friday 9th March 2018.

Sumdog is a 5-14 computer Maths and Literacy fluency program where students practice skills aligned to CfE. We’re a social enterprise organising maths contests for schools in Angus and would like to help your students get involved. 

How do the contests work?
Students simply log onto Sumdog and answer maths questions while playing Sumdog games. All the questions are adapted to the student, so everyone has an equal chance of winning. There is a maximum number of questions per student, and results are based on accuracy, so even if you can only get on the computers for a short period of time your class can still win! Questions will reflect what you teach in class as they are aligned to CfE. 

They start on the Friday at 8am and finish on the following Thursday at 8pm.  Please see the attached flyer.  Angus contest 09.03.18

How does Sumdog know which questions to ask each student?
The students will do a diagnostic test when they first start using Sumdog. The contest starts once the diagnostic test is complete. We advise students start practicing now so the questions have adapted for the contest. 

Are there prizes?
The top 3 classes win a subscription to Sumdog’s premium teaching tools! There are also participation awards and certificates for top students. 

Where can I find out more?
Find out more, incuding how to enter here: https://www.sumdog.com/enter_contest

Contact Mara Young (mara@sumdog.com) for any questions or support getting involved.

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Sumdog is a computer Maths and Literacy fluency program where students practice skills aligned to CfE. Sumdog premium provides teachers with automatic progress-monitoring tools, detailed individual and class reports, and custom activities and assessments to differentiate practice for students.