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CPD, Opportunities

Fife’s Cultural Roadshow

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Tuesday 27 March 2012
1pm – 6pm, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes

Fife’s Cultural Consortium warmly invites you to their second Cultural Roadshow.
This FREE event offers a series of seminars, networking and funding opportunities to groups and individuals working within a cultural context in Fife’s communities.

The Roadshow includes workshops, breakout sessions and a central Marketplace: your opportunity to meet with funders and find out what is on offer. Includes Fife Council’s Funding & Monitoring Team, Leader in Fife, Fife Environmental Trust, Heritage Lottery Fund and much more. 

To receive further information or to book a place on any of the Workshops or Breakout Sessions please contact the Cultural Partnerships Team, details below.
This opportunity is available in: Fife
For further information, please contact cultural.partnerships@fife.gov.uk (Cultural Partnerships Team), or call 01592 583255, or visit http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/culture. The deadline is Tuesday 27 March 2012 at 13:00.

CPD, Opportunities

ASE Scotland: CPD Event

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Science Fair for student and probationer teachers

ASE Scotland is here to support you as you deliver Curriculum for Excellence, providing its members and others with regular CPD and excellent publications.

Students of other disciplines who are interested in teaching are also very welcome.

Wednesday 18th April 2012

1:30 – 3:30pm

University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building: room 1F06

www.dundee.ac.uk/general/campusmap

Free admission; booking not required.

For further details contact:

Hannah Crookes, Dundee Science Centre

01382 868610

Click here for full details:ASE Science Fair 18April2012

 

Creativity, Education Scotland

Creative Resource: Transform Toolkit

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Education Scotland has published a new online resource, Transform Toolkit. The toolkit has been created by National Theatre of Scotland and Education Scotland to give every school and community the chance to create their own transformative experience.

Transform is an initiative which gives opportunities to schools and communities to work collaboratively on a large-scale creative project and allows participants to engage with and learn from artists from a range of creative industries.

Transform can be carried out by using the range of suggested tasks provided in the toolkit and/or with CPD support from National Theatre of Scotland. You can use the toolkit as a guide and it is designed to allow you to pick and choose the appropriate activities for the participants.

To use the tool kit use this link: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/resources/t/transformtoolkit/introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=ltscotland&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-609604-64

For more information contact National Theatre of Scotland on 0141 221 0970 or Simon.Sharkey@nationaltheatrescotland.com or
Education Scotland: lauren.greenaway@educationscotland.gov.uk

CPD, Opportunities

Glow TV: Schools and the Traverse Theatre

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Building relationships for the future
A Discussion Event for teachers

23/04/2012 16:30 – 18:00

Join Artistic Director (and former Drama Teacher) Orla O’Loughlin and Head of Traverse Learning Noëlle O’Donoghue, as they highlight how the Traverse Theatre can support schools to deliver the new curriculum and how we hope to engage with you and your pupils during our 50th anniversary in 2013. The session will feature an informal Q & A so come armed with your questions!

CPD, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Opportunities

Learner Voice and Pupil Participation Conference, 23 March 2012

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If you are interested in developing ‘learner voice’ and ‘pupil participation’ within your classroom, school or local authority, there will be a national conference in Edinburgh on Friday, 23 March 2012.
The event will feature sessions and workshops presenting successful and effective examples of developing and sustaining a pupil centred and participatory learning environment.
With a keynote address by Tam Baillie, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, some of the main themes covered on the day will include: rights respecting schools, community partnership projects, pupil councils, learner engagement with Curriculum for Excellence and peer education.  The event will also provide reference to global citizenship as a theme across learning highlighting how sustainability or international education allow for inclusive and pupil driven learning experiences.
Register for this free event today, or for further details please contact Diane Carson on 0141 282 5172 or email globalcitizens@educationscotland.gov.uk
Creative Learning, Creativity, Education Scotland, Marks on a Landscape, Opportunities

Wanted! Creative teachers and group workers!

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Are you creative in the classroom? Do you empower creativity in your young people?
Education Scotland is looking for teachers and CLD staff who use creativity in their work to speak up and share their creative learning and teaching approaches with the rest of Scotland through a series of very short online film clips.

Creativity in its purest sense involves generating original ideas that have value and crosses ALL areas of the curriculum (not just the arts) and we are looking for examples from subjects as diverse as PE, Languages and Maths. It could be the young people learning creative skills or an approach to lesson planning that is particularly creative. What creativity might involve can be found here: http://glo.li/xGyO32

Here are the questions we would like to put to you:

• What is creativity (to you)?

• Why be creative in your teaching?

• What happens when the young learners are engaged in a creative activity?

• What did you and your young learners do that was creative?
You might explain an example of what creativity looks like in your classroom or group.
You might detail day-to-day creative approaches or else explain a specific project, topic or development.
How did this specifically benefit you and the young people?

You will be filmed by a professional film company (they really put you at your ease) who will come to you, fit around your timetable, and the whole process of setting up and filming will take less than half an hour. Ultimately we are capturing just 3 minutes of glorious quality footage from you that will be shared through the Creativity Portal. This is a great opportunity to showcase your creativity to a national audience.

The filming will be arranged to suit you some time in the next three weeks.

It takes moments to offer your experience or suggest a colleague who you think would fit the bill:
Go to: http://glo.li/z0Mi3s
Email: Stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk
Phone: 0141 282 5194

CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Opportunities

Curriculum for Excellence Discussion at Donibristle with David Cameron

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In an effort to demystify and raise awareness of a Curriculum for Excellence, Donibristle has been fortunate enough to secure the services of David Cameron (currently working with Education Scotland) as a key speaker on Tuesday 20th March at 6.30pm.

Light refreshments will be available. 

 Please contact school on 01383 602412 for more information. 
 
Competition, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Opportunities, Primary schools

Fife primary school’s animation wins national film award!

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Well done Burntisland Primary School!

The children from Burntisland Primary School won the award for their stop motion film, Granny Mac’s Meringues.

The children from Burntisland Primary School made Granny Mac’s Meringues as part of a school project.

The children from Burntisland Primary School took just two months to create their stop motion film, Granny Mac’s Meringues.

The children were involved in writing the script, building the set and models, filming and recording voiceovers.

In the film, the Queen travels to Hisland Island to choose a hat from famous milliner Hettie McHattie for the Royal Wedding. On the boat on the way back to the mainland there is a mix up with the boxes and the hat goes missing.

The children were one of three groups shortlisted for the Best Film by Under 11s at the First Light Awards. They were up against films from Middlesbrough and Belfast.

The competition was judged by Danny Boyle and Sam Mendes .

Find out more http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/299963-primary-schools-animation-wins-national-film-award/

Creativity, Expressive Arts, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Face Britain

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Face Britain is the UK’s largest mass collaborative art project, and involves children and young people aged 4-16 in creating self portraits. The project has been designed with schools in mind and all self portraits will celebrated in a number of exiting ways including screenings on BBC Big Screens in 21 cities around the UK which will become the official Olympic Live Sites this summer.  So far over 1000 schools have signed up and submitted over 13,000 portraits.
To view the gallery visit: http://www.facebritain.org.uk/  
Click here for full details- Face Britain
For further information on Children and the Arts programmes and resources visit www.childrenandarts.org.uk