What a fantastic and unique Film-Making scheme for your young people. We are looking for twenty 16-19 year olds to get involved in the Edinburgh International Film Festival and make a short film, which will be screened at the Filmhouse in August! 
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Are you aged between 16 – 25? Could you make a sci-fi film in just a few short days? If you are up for the challenge you could get your film screened at EIFF this year!
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TALK BY STEWART SVAASAND: WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
– 5.00pm – 6.00pm
– Church Hall (upstairs)
– FREE
– Age 14-21
A rare opportunity to be guided by a top professional TV and film director Stewart Svaasand. Stewart’s work includes Hollyoaks, Missing, One Last Chance being shown later tonight and Waterloo Road Reunited. Stewart will outline the challenges and opportunities in the creative industries – a not to be missed event for any young person determined to succeed in this field.
Did you know Fife Council have been developing a secret project within the Dunfermline and West Fife areas over the last 4 weeks? The project involves some specially chosen primary school pupils, to celebrate the Olympic Torch coming to Fife. We can’t tell you any more just yet … shhhhhhh!
National Records of Scotland (NRS) Schools Programme: bookings open for September 2012 – March 2013NRS education website.
The National Records of Scotland has launched its September 2012 – March 2013 programme of free workshops and Glow Meet sessions for primary and secondary schools. New topics include ‘What is the Census?’ and ‘Newhaven Families’.
Full details of the Schools Programme and the booking form are available on the
A new Olympics project, allowing pupils to create and work with music through an online tool from ABC Creative Music is now free to 6 local authorities, with a free trial available to all others.
The six local authorities include: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, and Western Isles.
Due to popular demand and a great response from P4 and 5 teachers who have seen the material we have created a separate course so that teachers can use this resource from P4-7 (Year 3 – Year 6). Check out the fantastic Medal Ceremony Interactive!!
Here is a short movie about our Olympic project – WIN THE GOLD:
http://www.abcmusic.org.uk and then click on the SITE TOUR button.
On Youtube: http://youtu.be/gg7iN5XOxs0
On Screencast: http://www.screencast.com/t/69wG4wiOATD
WIN THE GOLD is a fun Olympic themed song and range of flexible projects for P4-7 (Year 3-6) that class teachers can use to add music to an Olympic project.
To sign up log into ABC Online at www.abcmusic.org.uk <http://www.abcmusic.org.uk> and go to Staffroom>Request & Unlock Trial Course and choose WIN THE GOLD – OLYMPICS 2012.
The National Records of Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Parliament, is mounting an exhibition in the Parliament from Wednesday 15 August to Saturday 8 September 2012 featuring two surviving original documents with a direct link to William Wallace. Many visitors to the exhibition are unlikely to know much about this turbulent period of Scottish history so primary and secondary pupils are invited to provide text, artwork or short films to help tell the story in a modern way.
Contributions for the exhibition must be submitted to the Scottish Parliament Education Service by Friday 15 June. Full details about this and the Education
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Programme during the exhibition are available on the Scottish Parliament website (www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace).
The search is on for Scotland’s Favourite Place
Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have launched an exciting new writing project to encourage people to write about the place in Scotland that they love the most.
My Favourite Place in Scotland is running from 19 March to 31 August 2012, and in that time Scottish Book Trust wants to involve everyone in Scotland in building a written picture of Scotland’s best-loved places.
Submissions should be made to Scottish Book Trust website and can be written in a huge variety of different forms, such as a story, poem, song lyrics, a short play or sketch, a letter or even diary entry.
Each submission will feature on Scottish Book Trust’s website and a selection of the most interesting and inspiring offerings will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and published in a book in late 2012.
Submissions can be made online at http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/myfavouriteplace or by post to My Favourite Place, Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunks Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.
The closing date for entries is 31 August 2012.
For more information read Scottish Book Trust press release.
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