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Category Archives: Science
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Commonwealth Games inspire Woodland Workout
Forestry Commission Scotland is encouraging young people to feel the benefit of the Commonwealth Games with a new Woodland Workout pack.
Targeted at 3-14 year olds the pack promotes opportunities for quality, fun and safe physical activity in the outdoors and includes ideas for games, physical activities and staging ‘adapted’ Commonwealth sports in the woodlands.
The pack, complete with teachers’ guide, encourages young people to have fun but to also be responsible for their well-being and consider risk. As well as considering potential hazards in their activity space and taking risks with solving problems, it also allows children the chance to learn how to manage ‘failure’ through reflecting on performance to set new challenges.
The Woodland Workout, with Commonwealth Games supplement has been issued to schools across Scotland and is available to download.
New CPD sessions at DCA
Click on the link below to download the booklet from DCA detailing new creative CPD sessions for the next academic year.
DCA aim to combine their classroom experience with exciting programme content and ‘really useful’ resources so that teachers take away something that can be used in class the next day. There is a charge but within that they provide tea/coffee and cake/nibbles to keep folk going.
2050 Climate Group Opportunity
Young Scot, Scotland’s award-winning national youth information and citizenship agency, and the 2020 Climate Group, the national group working to deliver a low carbon future for Scotland. We are writing to ask you to help us to raise awareness and circulate an exciting new opportunity for young people; the 2050 Climate Group.
The 2050 Climate Group is a pioneering initiative within Scotland with the ultimate aim of empowering young people to shape Scotland’s low carbon future. The group will present a national platform to represent the voice of young people to engage, influence and shape the transformational change required for Scotland to progress to a low carbon economy. Group members will have the opportunity to engage in decision making at a national level and share their views, experiences and findings.
The 2050 Climate Group will make a unique contribution towards ensuring that young Scots have the opportunity to raise awareness of issues surrounding climate change and sustainable solutions and show young people that they need to be actively involved in creating a low carbon future for all. No formal qualifications are necessary but we do expect that all members have some degree of influence and leadership experience and will be able to commit to the group for a minimum of one year. It will provide young representatives with the opportunity to be part of leading the drive to a low carbon future for Scotland, undertake high quality training, improve skills and partake in great networking opportunities.
We are inviting young people aged 18-30 from across Scotland, who are passionate about the environment and want to make a difference, to apply to volunteer with this exciting new climate group and help to lead the drive to a low carbon future. This is an excellent opportunity for young individuals from business, NGO, Third Sector and community backgrounds, who are already having an influence in their communities, to make an even bigger impact.
Here is the link to the information: https://www.youngscot.org/mag/2996-18-30-we-need-you-to-help-stop-climate-change.
An Audience with Graham Smith
The journey of ‘technology’ as it meets weather … as it meets art!
Join Fife Contemporary Art & Craft for the screening of ‘Six Years of Mondays’, a documentary artwork about a man called Graham
Smith living in Lochgelly, Fife, who has been making timelapse recordings of the view from his bedroom window everyday from 6am to 6pm since 2006. Graham will share his journey; from his interest in the local Scottish Weather, his technological background and how this led to the creation of www.fifeweather.co.uk, the UK’s only mobile weather lab (www.weatherevents.net), the timelapse recordings and Youtube channel.
Learn how Graham’s recordings were the basis of a commissioned piece of work by artists Thomson and Craighead (www.thomson-craighead.net) as part of Fife Contemporary Art & Craft’s ‘Weather Project’, which took place in Levenmouth and resulted in the creation of ‘Six Years of Mondays’ short video.
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft will share how the short video work takes us through a visualisation of six years of Mondays where each ‘year’ is soundtracked differently offering a range of contexts from which this contemplative landscape can be viewed. There will be a chance to ask questions at the end of the event with both Graham Smith and Fife Contemporary Art & Craft.
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014
Time: 7pm – 8.30pm
Venue: The Studio, Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, Lochgelly,
KY5 9RD
Cost: FREE
Bookings: 01592 583303 or boxoffice.lochgellyc@onfife.com
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Lantra Secondary School Awards now open for nominations!
Lantra Scotland, the sector skills council for the land-based and aquaculture industries, is seeking early nominations for their Secondary School Awards which take place at the Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards in early 2015. The award is open to both urban and rural secondary schools with the winning school in each category receiving £250.00.
The Secondary School Awards recognise school projects and activities which support and encourage increased knowledge and understanding in rural learning. To highlight and celebrate the success of school initiatives, Lantra has brought forward the closing date for nominations this year to 16th May 2014. This will allow the judging panel to visit the nominated schools during the Spring season, enabling them to get a more comprehensive look at the entrants and their respective projects in full bloom.
The award finalists will be announced at Lantra Scotland’s stand at the Royal Highland Agricultural Show on Thursday 19th June, and the winning schools will be announced at the award ceremony and gala dinner early in 2015.
For more information about the Secondary School Awards and to access a downloadable nomination form please visit:
http://www.lantra.co.uk/Downloads/Scotland/LBLOYA-2015-Schools-nomination.aspx.
For all other enquiries please contact Lantra Scotland on tel: 01738 646 762 or e-mail lantra.scotland@lantra.co.uk
Sustainable Arts: Support and Training
Measuring and reporting your environmental performance is an increasingly critical part of running an arts organisation and/or venue.
Aside from the obvious environmental and cost-saving benefits, improving your environmental performance helps to build stronger relationships with funders, artists, participants, suppliers, touring promoters, staff and audiences.
Creative Carbon Scotland currently works with over 100 arts organisations in Scotland, supporting them to engage with and work towards a more sustainable Scotland. This includes running year-round training workshops and support programmes across Scotland which provide organisations with the tools and knowledge they need to measure and reduce carbon emission from energy, water, waste and travel.
We are keen to ensure that our work is available to as wide a range of arts and cultural organisations as possible and want to hear from any arts organisation, individual artists and venues who would like to make use of this service.
Click here to register with us now to get started or contact Fay Butler at fay@creativecarbonscotland.com to find out more.
We look forward to hearing from you!
