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Primary curriculum conversation day – Friday 7 March

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Education Scotland is holding a conversation day focused on the primary curriculum on Friday 7 March in Duloch Primary School, Dunfermline. This event is aimed at school leaders.  We are keen to take stock of how the curriculum is developing in primary schools and hear school leaders’ views and experiences.

The purpose of the day is to:
•    consider how the curriculum is developing in the primary sector, particularly in relation to the raised expectations; and
•    identify areas that require further support and what that support needs to look like.

There will be opportunities to hear from a variety of colleagues as to how they are taking forward curriculum development at a strategic level in their schools as well as time for discussion.

If you would be interested in attending please contact margaret.mcguinness@educationscotland.gov.uk. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please note travel expenses are not paid for conversation days.

Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Dance, Drama, Music, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Youth Music Theatre UK – auditions

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Throughout January and February, Youth Music Theatre UK, the UK’s national music theatre company for young people (aged 11 – 21), will be heading to 24 cities across the UK looking for talented young performers and musicians to star in their new body of music theatre this summer. Now in their 10th year, they will be performing nine brand new shows right across the UK from London to Belfast as well as at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival in summer 2014.

They’re holding four auditions dates in Scotland: Sat 15 Feb – Glasgow (Scottish Youth Theatre), Sun 16 Feb – Edinburgh (The Studio at the Festival Theatre), Mon 17 Feb – Inverness (Spectrum Centre), Tue 18 Feb – Aberdeen (Danscentre).

For more information, download the flyers below:

Performer Audtions Flyer

Musician Auditions Flyer

Art, Art and Design, Curriculum for Excellence, Dance, Drama, Education Scotland, Expressive Arts, Music

Education Scotland’s Learning Blog recent post: Expressive Arts Conversation Day 2

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As agreed prior to the initial Expressive Arts Conversation Day that was held in Stirling on 25th November 2013,  for those local authorities who were unable to send representatives to the first event, a second national Expressive Arts Conversation Day will take place at Eden Court Theatre on Friday 28th March, from 9.45 am to 3.45 pm.

The event will have two key purposes:

  • to identify and discuss emerging and known issues in relation to expressive arts education with a view to agreeing actions to overcome the challenges associated with these issues
  • to establish a national primary expressive arts community
CPD, Creative Partners, Dance, Primary schools

CREATIVE LEARNING FOR PRIMARY TEACHERS / WHAT ABOUT DANCE?

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CPD Sessions this March for primary school teachers

We’re back from the festive break and raring to go with another term of fun and active CPD sessions for primary school teachers starting this March. In these sessions you can expect to take part in creative tasks and come away with fresh new ideas which can be adapted by you to deliver the Curriculum for Excellence in your classroom.

The important thing to remember about our sessions is that it’s not about teaching you to dance. It’s about helping you deliver the curriculum for excellence to your pupils in a fun way which will help them remember. It’s all about creative learning.

TESTIMONIALS

Primary teachers who have come to our sessions in the past had this to say…

“I have learned lots of useful ideas to take forward into the classroom. Gained more confidence in how to deliver a dance lesson”
Primary Teacher at Auchinleck Primary School

“Great ideas that could be easily adapted…Fantastic Training”
Primary Teacher from East Ayrshire Council

“Useful to have loads of ideas which I could then develop according to class/ideas etc. Liked how you can use a traditional dance as a starting point”
Primary Teacher at St Andrew’s Primary School

“Lots of useful ideas to use in practice also very helpful ideas of how to differentiate for different abilities”
Primary Teacher at New Cumnock Primary

“Teaching dance 20 odd years. Still getting lots of inspiration and ideas that I will take away and use tomorrow”
PE Specialist at Linlithgow Primary School

DATES

Nursery & Lower Primary

Basic Components of Dance
5 March 2014 (9.30am to 12.30pm)
@ a venue in Glasgow tbc – £40

Dance & Stories
5 March 2014 (1.30pm to 4.30pm)
@ a venue in Glasgow tbc – £40

Upper Primary

Basic Components of Dance
12 March (9.30am to 12.30pm)
@ a venue in Glasgow tbc – £40

Dance & Science (Making Science Physical)
12 March (1.30pm to 4.30pm)
@ a venue in Glasgow tbc – £40

Basic Components of Dance
19 March (9.30am to 12.30pm)
@ a venue in Glasgow tbc – £40

Dance & Numeracy (Let Numbers Dance off the Page)
19 March (1.30pm to 4.30pm)
@ a venue in Glasgow tbc – £40

BOOKING

Bookings can be made easily through our online booking form via the website

Alternatively you can email victoria@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712.

DISCOUNT

Feel free to contact us at any time with any questions you may have – we offer discounts for multiple bookings.

Art, Art and Design, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Glow TV, Music, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Glow TV – Puppetry Workshop for teachers – linked to War Horse

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Join us for this exciting behind the scenes look at puppetery as teachers work with Finn Caldwell who is one of the original War Horse puppeteers. Finn has directed the puppetry for productions of War Horse in the West End and in Australia.  He has also just directed the puppetry in The Light Princess at the National Theatre and is directing a children’s puppetry show called Elephantom in The Shed.

For more information click here.

Art, Art and Design, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Dance, Drama, Expressive Arts, Music

Expressive Arts Conversation Day 1

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The first Expressive Arts Conversation Day was held on 25 November 2013 at the Raploch Community Campus in Stirling. The event featured several stimulating practitioner inputs and lively discussion throughout.
The main themes we explored (identified during the morning session) were:
• developing appropriate expressive arts CPD
• providing appropriate support
• developing an effective model that balances creative space with skills development
• creating sustainable partnerships.
A second Expressive Arts Conversation Day is in the planning phase and we intend that it will probably take place in Inverness in February or early March to provide greater opportunity for our colleagues from further afield to attend. For more information, please read the blog post.
Art, Art and Design, Creativity, Dance, Drama, Education Scotland, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Numeracy and Maths, Science, Social Studies, Studying Scotland, Technologies

Resource Calendar (January 2014)

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The events in this calendar are celebrations, awareness days and action weeks all covering topical issues relevant to schools. Each of the events includes details of websites and support materials to help plan activities for learners.
The January events include:
· World Religion Day (19 January)
· Martin Luther King Day (20 January)
· RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch (20 January – 14 February)
· Burns Night (25 January).
Click here for the calendar.
Art, Art and Design, Creative Learning, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Dance, Drama, Expressive Arts, Music

Time to shine – Scotland’s first national arts strategy for young people launched

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Time To Shine, Scotland’s arts strategy for young people aged 0–25, was launched on 8 November by Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs and Janet Archer, Chief Executive, Creative Scotland.

The strategy – which is centred around the three key themes of creating and sustaining engagement; nurturing potential and talent; and developing infrastructure and support – sets out a vision and key recommendations to enable Scotland’s children and young people to flourish and achieve, in and through the arts and creativity.

For more information click here.

CPD, Creative Partners, Curriculum for Excellence, Dance, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Secondary schools

Teenage Girls Inspiring Fife

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Escape the office on Friday 8th November and celebrate the end of ‘Youth Work Week’.

Join us for an afternoon of café-style inspiration, interaction, information and ideas around teenage girls and physical activity……

  • Hear and see more about current work around teenage girls and physical activity
  • Learn more about the teenage brain
  • Find out who can help you
  • Great ideas… No money?… Find out about funding opportunities.

Time:     1pm-4pm

Venue: The Vine Church Conference Centre,         Dunfermline

To register and for more information contact:

Rae Prestage,

Telephone: 03451 55 55 55 + Ext 443029

Email: rae.prestage@fife.gov.uk