The British Academy is offering two awards of £4000 specifically for Scottish schools that want to develop creative ways of improving language teaching and learning. It could go towards helping you to work with your local primary schools, take forward business links, or develop a new course.
Category Archives: Literacy and English
World Book Day-March 1
Today is World Book Day, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.
Fantastic Fife!
The 3 winners were:
Early Primary Category
Ben Easton (P4) King’s Road Primary School in Fife
Later Primary Category
Niamh Corkey (P6) Kirkcaldy West Primary School
Secondary Category
Molly Broadley (S6) Cults Academy
The four runners-up in each age category were:
Early Primary Category
Evyn Kelly (P1) Our Lady of the Missions Primary School in East Renfrewshire
Jasmine Scott (P3) Mauchline Primary School in East Ayrshire
Lily Childs (P4) Park Primary School in Argyll and Bute
Abby Taylor (P1) Burravoe Primary School in the Shetland Islands
Later Primary Category
Evie Campbel (P7) Robslee Primary School in East Renfrewshire
Lily Bircham (P7) St Madoes Primary in Perth and Kinross
Caroline Baillie (P7) Sandaig Primary School in Glasgow
Isla McMillan (P6) Eaglesham Primary School in East Renfrewshire
Secondary Category
Alexander Orr (S2) Cults Academy in Aberdeen City
Rowan Ah-See (S6) Cults Academy in Aberdeen City
Amy Galloway (S5) Auchmuty High School in Fife
Danuelle Jackson (S5) Carluke High School in South Lanarkshire
Fife Libraries World Book Week Event
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Book and Film Event
Tuesday 28th February 2012 at 10am or 7pm
Film Tickets Only £2.50 per child (Teachers & adults helpers FREE)
Film Ticket with Coach Transport to the Event £5 per child (Teachers & adults helpers still FREE!!!)
****FREE TRANSPORT AVAILABLE ****
to the first 10 schools to apply to be part of our
Across the Generations Project
Thanks to special funding from the Creative Learning Network, these special showings also offer schools the chance to encourage families to read and share book experiences together. Our unique Across the Generations Project encourages children to invite an adult from their family to come with them to the event, helping you to encourage literacy and strengthen the bond between school and home.
To be eligible you simply need to…
Offer your children the chance to bring a parent, grandparent or other adult with them to the show,
either in the morning at 10am or in the evening at 7pm.
Submit your Booking Form and we will hold a place for each child with an additional free adult ticket allocated for each one,
you then send a letter home inviting adults to come with the class and confirm the adult numbers later.
Just asking the adults to come makes you eligible to apply for FREE Transport!
The film ticket costs £2.50 per child but all adults are FREE and if you are among the first 10 schools to apply we can provide coach travel from schools anywhere in FIFE to the Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy completely FREE.
Questions?? Problems??
Find more details in the BOY World Book Week Event flyer or contact me,
Maggie Gray on 01592 583204
Don’t delay – apply today!!!
Fantastic Fife!
Two Fife children have came first place in their categories in a National writing competition!
A pupil from Kings Road PS in Rosyth came first in the lower primary category and a pupil from Kirkcaldy West PS came first in the upper primary category…a fantastic result for Fife! In the secondary school category a Fife pupil from Auchmuty HS, Glenrothes was a runner up.
There were over 450 schools taking part from all across Scotland in the Glovember writing competition and with Fife children winning two out of the three categories, we at Fife’s CLN feel they should be exceptionally proud of their achievement.
Well done Ben and Niamh!
Children’s writing competition 500 Words returns to Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2
Chris Evans said: “We were overwhelmed last year to be inundated with thousands of truly creative and fantastic entries from nearly 30,000 kids, and in 2012 we need your help to make the competition even bigger than before. To read is good, but to write is even better and dare I say it, can even be more fun.”
Fife Children are top readers!
Glow Meet-Big Book Brain Quiz 2012
Everyone had a fantastic day at the Big Book Brain Quiz held at the Rothes Halls on Friday…over 90 school teams took part in the hall and 61 schools with over 1, 500 participants joined in the fun online through a glow meet!
All the children did exceptionally well, proving just how much they have been reading over the last few months!
It was a very close finish and after tie-break questions the winners were announced!
1st. Park road PS
2nd. Crail PS
3rd Canongate PS
Well done the winners and to all who took part!
Burns Day!
Have a look at this fantastic website to help you celebrate our language and culture!
- Stooryduster
National Storytelling Week – 28 January-4 February 2012
The annual National Storytelling Week is organised by the Society for Storytelling and aims to promote what it describes as ‘the oldest art form in the world’.
Visit the Education Scotland website for more info and resources!
FCLN Meeting 19/1/12 Curriculum for Excellence: Creativity and Culture
Creativity and culture in Curriculum for Excellence!
Click on the image above to see why creativity is so important!
All quotes taken from the Curriculum for Excellence principles and practice documents for each subject.
