Category Archives: Creativity

CPD, Creativity, Opportunities, Secondary schools

Shakespeare in the Classroom with Globe Theatre – CPD

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This one day professional development activity is aimed at secondary school teachers wishing to enhance their knowledge of using Shakespeare’s work in a classroom setting.
A specialist practitioner from Shakespeare’s Globe in London will lead the session where teachers will take part in active, practical techniques designed to assist their teaching practice in this specialist area.
Throughout the short course teachers will be supported by Shakespeare’s Globe’s educational specialist who has developed dynamic learning approaches to exploring Shakepeare’s plays with 11 to 17 year olds.
Their approach to supporting teachers will in turn aid secondary pupils to better understand characterization, themes and language.
Shakespeare’s Globe use a variety of techniques to explore and experiment with text; from the actor’s viewpoint and from the director’s, differing interpretations of the same play and interactive tasks to bring the text to life.
A short but specific focus of the day will be on Macbeth.
Venue:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Speirs Locks Studios
210 Garscube Road
Glasgow G4 9RR
Date: Friday 9 November 2012
Time: 10am – 4pm
Cost: £95

Get in Touch
To book a place or find out more information on this course, please contact the Short Courses team on:
Telephone 0141 270 8213
Email shortcourses@rcs.ac.uk
This opportunity is available in: Glasgow City
For further information, please contact shortcourses@rcs.ac.uk (Short Courses), or call 0141 270 8213

Competition, Creativity, Global Citizenship, News, Opportunities

Schools enterprise competition

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‘Micro Tyco‘ is a competition with the potential for inspiring children and young people to think and be creative in an enterprising way while also becoming aware of business ethics. The one month challenge kicks off at the start of November when participants work in teams to transform £1 into as much money as possible.

Schools can register teams online, to get ready for the start of the competition.

Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, News, Opportunities, resources, RME

New RMR web resource

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Testimony is Education Scotland’s new high quality resource to support learning and teaching in religious and moral education. It has been designed for use by both staff and senior phase pupils. Testimony illustrates how faith, belief and values can influence how a person acts. It includes examples of religious and non-religious standpoints to show how people from around the world and in Scotland have been influenced by faith. The material includes the personal testimonies of some well-known individuals alongside the stories of ordinary members of faith communities. It can be used to support learning within the new SQA award in Religion, Belief and Values and also supports the development of skills for learning, life and work.

Creativity, Events, News, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Modern Language Screenings

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The experience of hearing another language in the cinema is an invaluable way to appreciate and enjoy another culture. From September – December 2012 Filmhouse offers primary and secondary schools a wealth of great films from France and Germany, including films from the 20th French Film Festival and Goethe Insitut. These films have all been very successful in their own countries and offer a range of funny, touching and educational stories.

Screenings are great value – either £2.60 or FREE – and many are supported by an additional teaching resource for use in the classroom.

For further details please see http://www.filmhousecinema.com/learning/schools-and-teachers/ or contact nicola.kettlewood@cmi-scotland.co.uk

To book, please contact the Filmhouse Duty Manager on 0131 228 6382.

Creativity, Education Scotland, resources

New Primary Modern Languages web resource

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Education Scotland has launched a new online resource, Passeport pour la Francophonie. The resource is aimed at supporting primary teachers, to provide stimulating and exciting learning experiences at second level and will develop skills of reading, writing, listening and talking. 

The online resource provides suggestions for exploring the other curricular areas such as RME or maths and numeracy through the medium of French language and culture. Practitioners can use Passeport pour la Francophonie to enhance their professional learning both in terms of their own foreign language skills and developing innovative approaches to teaching a language. Learners will find that the activities bring languages to life by travelling through five different countries of the Francophonie.  They will discover other cultures, meet children from around the world and gain an understanding and appreciation of their native language and culture

Community Learning and Development, Creative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Education Scotland, Events, News

The Scottish Learning Festival 2012

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This week Education Scotland hosted another successful Scottish Learning Festival.   Over the two days, they welcomed around 4500 visitors, hosted 100 seminars, delivered inspiring keynote addresses and facilitated discussion and debate in the round table sessions.

You can watch the keynotes and a range of seminars on Glow TV watch again.