posted by Louise Kirby, YMI Coordinator, Schools & Learning

Angus Council Schools & Learning have received funding from Youth Music Initiative (YMI), part of Creative Scotland to fund a range of music projects across Angus schools in School Year 2016 – 2017.

A range of short and/or long term projects include –

• Kodaly with all P1-3s across Angus, including class teacher CPD (check CDP online)
• Pipe Drumming with D2 Percussion with P3/4 at Hayshead.
• Arbroath Pipe Band After School Group at Hayshead.
• Drake will be delivering to some of the ASN resources schools in primary and secondary.
• Nordorff Robbins will be delivering Experiential Music Making within ASN resources schools. They specialise in areas, including autistic spectrum disorder, children with complex need and social and emotional and behavioural development.
• Rock College at Arbroath Academy.
• Bass Guitar After School Group at Warddykes.
• Musical Futures at Ladyloan and St Thomas.
• Rock Fest on 13^th June 2017, a platform for young people to perform in give a safe and professional environment.
• Braebach at Brechin High, a 3 day project.
• Jam Time with P7s in selected schools working with P7s with the guitar.
• Music Technology, upskilling Arbroath Academy staff and pupils.

These projects link into the YMI outcomes –

• Young people have more opportunities to take part in enjoyable and quality music making opportunities
• Young people who would not normally have the chance to participate take part in music making opportunities
• Young people develop their music and music making skills
• Young people develop their skills for life, learning and work
• Young people increase their awareness of music and culture across Scotland, the UK and the world
• Young people influence or lead youth music opportunities, and have their voice heard in design and delivery
• People delivering youth music develop their skills and confidence
• Organisations in the music sector and beyond work together to strengthen the youth music sector for the benefit of young people

If you feel your school would benefit from a music project/CPD/support please contact KirbyL@angus.gov.uk with a proposal for consideration for our funding application for 2017 – 2018.

posted by Rodger Hill, Service Manager, Schools and Learning

Twig Assignments are now available to Glow users through TwigonGlow. This feature allows teachers to set Twig films as homework and track results while testing students on what they’ve learned.

Teachers can also track their students’ week-to-week progress and see exactly where each student would benefit from some more assistance.

The feature can be accessed through the MyTwig panel for both teachers and students:
https://www.twigonglow.com/my-twig/

TWIG have released a tutorial for assignments that can be found here:
https://www.twig-world.com/assignments/

TWIG also have a general system requirements information page for the whole site which can be found here:
https://www.twigonglow.com/support/system-requirements/

posted by Rodger Hill, Service Manager, Schools and Learning

I work in the Educational programmes Unit at East-Madrid Education office, one of the five educational district offices in the province and region of Madrid (Spain). One of my tasks is to help the schools in this area (infant – primary – secondary and vocational) look for internationalisation possibilities, contacts with schools in other countries and participation in programmes such as Erasmus+ (that’s to say learning and play not only outdoor but also abroad.  I help them get acquainted and start eTwinning virtual projects (https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm), or look for good teacher training courses and job-shadowing positions and apply for Erasmus+ KA1 funding to attend them (https://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/ ) or help them search for partner schools to apply for KA2 funding for international partnerships around a common interest (such as  ICT use in the school context, skills development, teacher improvement, subject centered teaching, community learning, STEM or any other topic). I also advise some of them to find positions for vocational and upper vocational students to go abroad for internships, etc.

We cover a territory with 179 Primary schools, almost 100 Secondary, etc.  Besides, here we have a very strong specific bilingual programme which implies that many of the schools are bilingual, offering a third of the curriculum in English, so communication among the schools wouldn’t be a problem in principle.  There are interesting projects all over the place (here’s an example: http://www.educa2.madrid.org/web/tecnorurales ) and there are also teachers interested in sharing projects, participating in international partnerships, or in the possibility of sitting courses, experiencing job shadowing in schools in other countries, welcoming colleagues from other countries for short job shadowing visits or other possibilities…

if you consider there might be any collaboration possibilities please contact me at:

M Inmaculada Reguero MélidaUnidad de Programas Educativos – DAT-Madrid Este
C/ Jorge Guillén, s.n., Alcalá de Hres. 28806-Madrid
Tfno.: 918872114 / Fax: 918872138
Programas Internacionales<http://www.madrid.org/dat_este/supe/programas-internacionales/programas_internacionales.html>    –    Idiomas<http://www.madrid.org/dat_este/supe/lenguas-extranjeras/lenguas_extranjeras.html>

posted by Rodger Hill, Service Manager, Schools and Learning

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