Category Archives: Technologies

Enter the national billboard design challenge

Education Scotland has launched a national challenge for learners to design a double-sided billboard to be seen by people entering and leaving Scotland.

The design challenge is being run through the Marks on the Landscape website  , an interdisciplinary learning resource focussed on creativity skills, within the learning context of the land regeneration project Fife Earth.

The challenge is aimed at those working within second, third and fourth curriculum levels. It could be incorporated into planning for a number of curriculum areas including art and design, social studies, religious and moral education, technologies and sciences, and the themes of sustainability and global citizenship.

Learning Opportunity: Historic Scotland – DUNFERMLINE ABBEY

What’s available?
• Free visits for educational groups
• Medieval Pilgrims activity – supports topics such as Medieval Scotland, Malcolm & Margaret, local studies/Fife. Contact HS learning Services direct on 0131 668 8793 or hslearning@scotland.gsi.gov.uk 
• Downloadable resources
• Project participation

A visit / activity at this site will support Experiences and Outcomes in the following areas: Social Studies, Health & Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, Literacy, RME.

Contact Dunfermline Abbey direct on 01383 739 026

Travel subsidy available for visits to all of these sites – 75% of your transport costs covered!
For information on Learning Services, free resources and our Travel Subsidy scheme please go to
www.historic-scotland.gov.uk or give us a call.

See our Glow Group http://glo.li/fklhhh, and/or find us on the Creativity Portal www.creativityportal.org.uk

In Dunfermline, Fife, off the M90 (KY12 7PE)

Learning Opportunity: Historic Scotland – Aberdour Castle

What’s available?
• Free visits for educational groups
• Steward-led tours
• Medieval Castle Life handling box of objects for group leaders
• Discovery Sessions (choose from 16th century dance or handling sessions)
• Downloadable resources
• Project participation

A visit / activity at this site will support Experiences and Outcomes in the following
areas: Social Studies, Health & Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, Literacy, Technologies.

Contact Aberdour Castle direct on 01383 860519

Travel subsidy available for visits to all of these sites – 75% of your transport costs covered!
For information on Learning Services, free resources and our Travel Subsidy scheme please go to
www.historic-scotland.gov.uk or give us a call.

See our Glow Group http://glo.li/fklhhh, and/or find us on the Creativity Portal www.creativityportal.org.uk

Raspberry Pi computer

Raspberry Pi

A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today.

 “This is about getting kids to engage creatively with computers: doing interesting things. And to be fair that doesn’t even have to be programming: it can be art, it can be design, using computers in a creative way”

Dr Upton

Find out more!

BBC News: The Raspberry Pi computer goes on general sale

BBC News: Raspberry Pi computer: Can it get kids into code?

 

E-Safety live event 22 March, Heriot Watt University Conference Centre

Edinburgh Workshops

The Scottish Government and the UK Safer Internet Centre are running an e-safety live event on 22 March with a choice of 12 workshops on topics such as ‘Online Gaming’ and ‘Protecting your Professional Identity’.

The event will be of interest to teachers, e-safety leads, headteachers, organisations working with children, social workers, local authorities and trainers. For enquiries, please email esafetylive@saferinternet.org.uk.

Queen Anne High School Mural Participants

When Visit Dunfermline and Dunfermline Athletic Football Team set the task of developing a mural to enhance the entrance to the East (Away) Stand at East End Park, four Advance Higher Art students from Queen Anne High School jumped at the chance.
As Anna Ginnerup Strachan, Rachael Robertson, Emily Stewart and Caitlin Stewart are all also studying photography they decided that would be the best medium to use to produce their mural.
The result is a vibrant collection of scenes from some of the most famous landmarks in the town. Featuring the Abbey, City Chambers, the Palace and the Glen Gates topped off with three amazing flying Dragon Gargoyles, the finished project really captures the essence of Dunfermline!

 

FCLN Meeting 19/1/12 Curriculum for Excellence: Creativity and Culture

Creativity and culture across the whole of the curriculum!

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.