Education Scotland has created a new resource on Political Literacy, for education practitioners working with community and school audiences. It provides information, materials, learning approaches, and links to many organisations relevant to democratic life in Scotland. Its coverage includes politics in daily life, a timeline of the development of the Scottish Parliament, and civil rights.
We want to connect people in the community who have skills in any form of craft or trade to others who want to learn.
We’ll create a pictorial in each community as a record and celebration of the shared projects and exhibit them as part of the final show when it arrives in Fife. You will be invited to see your work on show and the play for free as part of the project.
Do you have a spare 60 – 90 minutes in your week to help elder and younger people learn a new skill or do you want to learn something new? If so, we are excited to hear from you!
We are looking for volunteers to come into our sessions and help teach/learn creative skills – sewing, painting etc.
Here’s a run down of what’s happening with the project at the moment.
Wednesday 10 – 11:30 Lochgelly Centre
Thursday 10:30 – 12:00 Glenrothes Age Concern (Scott Road)
Thursday 1:00 – 2:30 Dunfermline Carnegie Hall
Friday 10:45 – 12:15 Kirkcaldy Day Centre (Townsend Place)
Contact Lynsey at Education and Outreach
Nutshell Theatre
Phone: 07515 675 629
Email: lynseycullen1@gmail.com
Click here for all the info on the show ‘Thread’
Art, Society and Participation: Constructing the Larger Narrative. With a range of speakers from the USA, Europe and the UK, this conference offers two days of dialogue, reflection and exchange for artists and other professionals involved in delivering arts in participatory settings.
Find out more and book your place…
In partnership with the Daily Record, Creative Scotland are looking for nominations to the Creative Scotland Awards – a celebratory spotlight on the cultural success stories of 2012, and a chance to raise awareness of these stories amongst the people of Scotland.
Scottish Book Trust will be running the first Book Week Scotland, a national celebration of books and reading, from 26 November to 2 December 2012.
During Book Week Scotland Scottish Book Trust will be working with a wide range of partner organisations, including libraries, schools, museums and workplaces, to deliver a full programme of free projects and events, bringing Scots of all ages and from all walks of life together to celebrate the pleasures of books and reading.
They are currently looking for volunteers to join the League of Extraordinary Booklovers. For more information on this visit the Scottish Book Trust’s website: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookweekscotland.
The Scottish Government has announced funding to offer both PE and classroom teachers across Scotland access to training which will provide them with the knowledge, skills and experience to fully include disabled young people in PE and sports.
The National Creative Learning Network (NCLN) is a community of practice which has a leadership role in championing and advocating creativity in both formal and informal learning contexts. The Network is well represented at this year’s SLF, with members from local authorities across Scotland leading workshops and seminars throughout the two days of the festival.
Seminar Programme: Find out about the benefits of being involved in a Creative Learning Network at Fife’s CLN Showcase seminar. Or, find out what being creative means to Edinburgh’s young apprentices in the Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers session. Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme.
Education Showcase: The Showcase programme features demonstrations, experiments, drama and music making with NCLN contributions from a number of authorities. To view the Education Showcase programme click here.
Creative Learning Networks: The NCLN consists of the group of coordinators who lead each local authority’s Creative Learning Network. Visit the Creativity Portal to find out who your local Creative Learning Network contact is: http://bit.ly/Creative_Learning_Contacts.
Find out more about the Creative Learning Networks by watching one of the short films on the Creativity Portal: http://bit.ly/CLN_Creativity_Portal.
Hopscotch present a brand new fun and educational show! Find out the truth about Vikings, Saints, Kings and commoners, heroes and villains, Wallace and Bruce, Mary, Queen of Scots, Robert Burns, the Victorians and much, much more.
All the history you thought you knew and lots more besides.
SUITABLE FOR: P1 – P7 DURATION: 55 minutes COST: £395.00
Adapted for S1 & S2
DATES: Mon 10th Sept – Fri 26th Oct 2012
Invitation
To celebrate the Year of Creative Scotland, leading artists from all disciplines have been invited to deliver artistic engagement workshops with children at the Creative Scotland stall during the Scottish Learning Festival.
The Creative Scotland stall in hall 3 intends to engage, inspire and inform. The programme of activities demonstrates the many powerful and positive impacts of working creatively to deliver Curriculum for Excellence and offers an opportunity to discuss the work and partnerships with artists experienced in working in education.
The attached schedule details the times, dates and activities of the artists. Please drop in and see excellent artistic engagement in action.
The Scottish Learning Festival is open for visitors on Wednesday, September 19th from 9am-5pm and on Thursday, September 20th from 9am -4pm. For further details about the Scottish Learning Festival and to register, please visit http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/slf/index.asp
What creative activity for early years happens in your community?
Would you like more access to the arts and creativity for early years?
Would an Early Years Creative Network help?
Starcatchers is carrying out some research into the potential of an Early Years Creative Network for Scotland.
We want to hear the views of people across Scotland as part of this process – from parents, childcare professionals, artists, arts organisations, local authorities, and other local and national organisations working across different sectors with Early Years in Scotland
We would like to invite you to a consultation event to share your views. We are holding a series of events that you can attend:
Places at these events are free but must be reserved by emailing info@starcatchers.org.uk
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