This resource looks at ideas for food as a context for interdisciplinary learning, and how Curriculum for Excellence supports learning about food and health.
The resource includes a poster and a supporting leaflet. The poster, in the form of a mind map, illustrates the different ways we engage and learn about food. The supporting leaflet provides further information on the resource and how to consider using it through well planned interdisciplinary learning.
Scotland will host its first ever national week-long celebration of reading in 2012 – The Year of Creative Scotland, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced yesterday.
The Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs joined author Ian Rankin and Scotland’s Makar Liz Lochhead at the Writer’s Museum in Edinburgh yesterday, to announce that Book Week Scotland will be held from Monday November 26 until Sunday December 2, 2012.
People the length and breadth of Scotland will be encouraged to engage in the first ever week-long national celebration of reading, and to participate in a range of free events to be held throughout the week.
Initiated by the Scottish Government, Book Week Scotland will be delivered on behalf of Creative Scotland by Scottish Book Trust, the leading agency for the promotion of literature, reading and writing in Scotland.
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Education Scotland’s Early Years Matters magazine is published twice yearly in the spring and autumn. The Early Years team at Education Scotland is keen to seek the views of early years practitioners on this professional development publication in order to inform future issues.
We would like to invite practitioners to take part in an online survey which will only take a few moments but will be hugely beneficial to the editorial team. Responses are anonymous and will be held in the strictest of confidence.
Please complete the survey by 22 June 2012.
While we may not yet be in a full-blown “creativity crisis,” we may be heading in that very direction!
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Visit Aberdour Castle as part of your class project and book a session with the Monument Manager. Each session includes a tour of the castle and an interactive activity. NEW for 2012! Try your hand at 16th century dance – complete with lords and ladies costume.
Suitable for P1-P7
Tuesdays only
Duration – 90 minutes
Maximum number – 33 pupils
Cost – FREE
Contact Aberdour Castle to book a session on 01383 860 519
Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology and health and wellbeing.
All resources are free with your Glow log-in.
A FLASHMOB of children from four Dunfermline primary schools performed a secret song they helped compose called ‘Fife goes Olympic’.
Around 170 primary 6 &7 youngsters gave unsuspecting shoppers at the Kingsgate Shopping Centre a big surprise yesterday when they performed their song for the first time ahead of the Olympic Torch Relay in Dunfermline.
The pupils from Cairneyhill, Duloch, St Margaret’s RC and St Leonards Primary Schools have been working together on the top secret project which was supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and Fife Council under the ‘Summer of Song: Celebrating the Olympic Torch in Scotland’ banner.
The children wrote their very own Olympic Song for Fife during a songwriting process which was led by musicians from Edinburgh based charity, Fischy Music.
The charity worked with the children over the course of four weeks to compose their song and co-ordinate their special flashmob surprise.
Also helping to support the performance on the day were the Kingsgate Shopping Centre Management team and representatives from Queen Anne Singers and Dunfermline Choral Union.
As a thank you to the hard work and dedication of the children, the staff, Fischy Music and Fife Council’s Cultural Partnerships Team to make this flashmob happen, please help us promote Fife’s Secret Song – ‘Fife Goes Olympic’ far and wide. Tell everyone you know to go to www.youtube.com/Thefifecouncil to view Fife Council’s flashmob clip and also search Dunfermline Flashmob which a parent kindly put up o f almost the full concert! Get ‘sharing’, ‘blogging’ and ‘tweeting’!
For the last few months, GTC Scotland has been working with colleagues across the profession on a revision of the GTC Scotland Professional Standards. The working titles of the revised standards are: Standards for Registration (encompassing a Standard for Initial Registration and a Standard for Full Registration), the Standard for Career Long Professional Learning, and The Standards for Leadership and Management (encompassing A Standard for Middle Leadership and a Standard for Headship). A generic set of values has been developed to be used across each of the standards.
The revised standards will be available online in August, as part of a consultation exercise. A programme of Glow TV events has been arranged, to enable teachers to hear our thinking about the content of the revised standards, and to engage in discussion about this. These Glow TV events will take place on the following dates 30th August, 6th, 17th and 27th September, with the first three focussing on the individual standards and the final session looking at the overall standards framework.
Further details and an opportunity to sign up to take part in these events will be available on the Glow TV schedule before the summer break. GTC Scotland Professional Standards Glow TV Events.
The winners of this year’s Scottish Education Awards were announced on Tuesday 12 June. To see full list of winners visit the Scottish Education Awards website.
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