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.
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A key priority of Curriculum for Excellence is to improve the life chances for all of Scotland’s children and young people, through improving attainment and raising ambition. Fundamental to this is encouraging and nurturing creativity, to improve the self-esteem, motivation and achievement of our learners.
As CfE is being implemented across Scotland, practitioners are developing their creative teaching and learning as well as nurturing creative skills in learners.
The Scottish Learning Festival 2012 offers practitioners opportunities to learn more about the importance of creative skills for themselves and for their learners.
Why not come along to one of the Glow seminars at this years’ festival
Code: K2E
Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM Education
Seminar Date: 19 September 2012 @ 16:15
Code: L2F
Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft & RM Education
Seminar Date: 20 September 2012 @ 09:30
Code: D2I
Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM Education
Seminar Date: 20 September 2012 @ 13:15
Representatives from Education Scotland, RM Education and Microsoft will take you on a tour of the evolving Glow solution. You will see the new Glow Launchpad, RM Unify, which will give users access to Office365 for education, RM Books along with other popular application for the education community. This launchpad to the cloud will allow you to tailor the apps you see and use in daily learning and teaching.
Find out more on the SLF site here
The Jolomo Schools Painting Award sponsored by Bank of Scotland will be run for the first time in school year 2012-13. Students from the senior phase at all Scottish secondary schools are invited to take part in the inaugural schools painting award. Students are asked to paint and submit their interpretation of the Scottish landscape. The winner will receive £500, with an additional £500 going to the winning schools Art Department. The winner will also have the opportunity to be mentored by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo). More information can be found by clicking on ‘How to enter’ on the home page of The Jolomo Foundation website: www.jolomofoundation.org.
‘Two in Every Classroom’ is a new interdisciplinary resource for secondary schools. It is an online resource produced by Asthma UK Scotland for secondary school teachers in Scotland. The resource aims to help schools use new and creative ways to embed asthma within Curriculum for Excellence while raising the profile of the most common long-term condition in schools. Use Watch Again to view the Glow Meet that was held on Monday 10 September about the resource
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 European Day of Languages (EDL) is on 26 September and is all about finding ways to get people in schools, colleges and the wider community excited about languages. How you celebrate is up to you! To mark EDL 2012 SCILT have launched an exciting competition.
With assistance from SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Modern Languages, the annual conference of the Scottish Association for Language Teaching (SALT) will take place on 3 November 2012 in the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Moving on from last year’s theme of a “Conference for Excellence” we are billing this as “Excellence in Practice” and the 20 seminars on offer will reflect this, offering themes which will help practitioners. Online booking will be available in September and the new SALT brochure will be available to download from the SCILT and SALT websites soon.
More information on fees is available from the events page of the website.
If creativity is important to you, it is surely doubly important to you that your children have creative minds. As their parent (or teacher or caregiver) you can do a lot to ensure your children maintain and grow their creative minds.
Read the article here!
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
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