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Register now for the Climate Week challenge

Register for the Climate Week Challenge – a fun, free and easy-to-organise event to enable your school to take part in Climate Week 2013. Climate Week is Britain’s biggest climate change campaign.

During the week of 4-10 March 2013, thousands of events and activities planned by organisations from every part of society will showcase real, practical ways to combat climate change.

The Climate Week Challenge can be held on any day during Climate Week. There are two versions of the Climate Week Challenge to choose from – one-hour and one-day – and the one-day version is judged nationally by a panel of judges.

Learners of any age are challenged to come up with creative solutions to climate change. The activity helps develop creativity, innovation and enterprise, team-working skills and experience of tackling real-life environmental issues to a deadline.

There are eight age categories, with different levels of sophistication expected, but everyone – from primary pupils to senior managers – will be given the same core task.

  • It is completely FREE.
  • Any school or organisation can take part.
  • Any number of teams can be entered.
  • No preparation is needed.
  • The Challenge will be revealed to teachers a week beforehand.
  • All that a team needs is a table to work at with pens and paper.

Opportunity for young people to create their own Social Enterprise – 11-16 year olds

Live UnLtd, InspirEngage International and Xing Education launched Create Your Career, offering 11–16 year-olds across the UK the opportunity to start their own social enterprise. Successful applicants receive up to £500 kick-start funding, a free place at an InspirEngage Skills Bootcamp and access to support. The deadline for applications is 10 December

Click here for details

The Art of Hosting – 9.30 am and 4.30 pm on 6 December 2012

As part of our Ideas Academy – developing dialogue, debate and conversation that encourage us to lead, think and act beyond boundaries; being creative, provocative, inspiring and motivating – we are delighted to bring the Art of Hosting to Glasgow on 6 December.

The Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations is a response to a world that is becoming increasingly complex and fragmented, where true solutions and innovations lie not in one leader or viewpoint, but in the larger picture of collective intelligence and wise sustainable action.

Find out more on the CLD Standard Council website.

All places are now booked but a waiting list is available.

French Transformations Theatre Company

“Granny Smith”     

 Bilingual show – French / English 

  Story, mask and acting by Tracey Boot

Touring Scotland soon !

 “Granny Smith” is our latest comic mask show. An intimate, interactive performance piece  mixing theatre, French, English and cooking !

The story line :

Come and meet « Granny Smith » who’s been living in France for many years.

Discover a rather active granny who talks about her home, her likes and dislikes, her friends and activities … an interactive performance piece which will give you a taste for French culture , French language and most importantly French food !

Tracey is an experienced bilingual performer who adapts the quantity of french and english language to suit the audience.

  •  Target audience : family & schools (6-13yrs)
  • Performance Space : min of 3m x 3m
  • Show running time :50 minutes( no Interval)
  • N° of cast : 1 female
  • Maximum of 60 people per performance       
  • We are  technically self sufficient
  • Fees : contact us for details  contact@theatretransformations.com

Teachers’ pack  available

Granny SmithANG – copie

Understand the science of fireworks

Twig on Glow – the free resource for Scottish schools – is preparing for Fireworks night with a special feature.

 • Explore the science behind explosions
• Discover how different chemical elements produce bright colours
• Understand how fireworks make such fantastic shapes in the sky

Visit the site now to explore this seasonal content, it’s free to all Glow users at www.twigonglow.com

International school partnerships

A great way for Scottish schools to continue to develop creative learning relationships with their international partners is through the ‘Connecting Classrooms‘ programme from British Council. This programme is designed to help young people learn about global issues and become responsible global citizens, supporting the development of skills which they will need to live and work in an increasingly global economy.

Get more information here

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation – NGS free workshops for 14–19 year olds

The BP Portrait Award showcases the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. BP Portrait Award: Next Generation opens up free opportunities for 14–19 year olds to creatively engage with portraiture.

The National Galleries of Scotland are hosting the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this winter. They are offering four, short taster sessions where young people can experiment with drawing techniques and two, two-day Winter Schools where young people can experience a more intense approach to drawing and painting, coached by past BP Portrait Award-winning artists.

These are free and open to young people from all over Scotland. A small number of travel bursaries are available to young people on application.

For more information or to book a place, please email Joanna Mawdsley, Schools Education Officer.