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Divided City Event at Citizen’s Theatre – Primary Event

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18 February 2013,

11.00 am

Funded by the Scottish Government, the Citizens Theatre and South Lanarkshire Culture and Leisure are re-mounting the hit musical stage version of Theresa Breslin’s award winning novel, Divided City, with a 40 strong cast of 3rd year pupils from across South Lanarkshire. To help teachers and pupils get inside the world of the book and the production there will be two Glow meets (one Primary and the other Secondary) with the author and the creative team behind the hit musical version of Divided City.

This is the Primary event (glow password required) and will include a special opportunity to ask author Theresa Breslin questions about Divided City and find out how the creative team from the new production in Hamilton took the book from page to stage

Creativity, Events, glow meet, News, Secondary schools

Divided City Event at Citizen’s Theatre – Secondary Event

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18 February 2013,

2.00 pm

Funded by the Scottish Government, the Citizens Theatre and South Lanarkshire Culture and Leisure are re-mounting the hit musical stage version of Theresa Breslin’s award winning novel, Divided City, with a 40 strong cast of 3rd year pupils from across South Lanarkshire. To help teachers and pupils get inside the world of the book and the production there will be two Glow meets (one Primary and the other Secondary) with the author and the creative team behind the hit musical version of Divided City.

This is the Secondary event (glow password required) which will feature a lively discussion asking whether young people today have experienced sectarianism or prejudice similar to those experienced by the characters in Divided City.

Education Scotland, Events, News

Event: Health and wellbeing at times of transition

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Click on the image for more infoSaturday 16 March 2013,

Hilton Grosvenor,

Edinburgh,

9.30 am to 3.30 pm
 
Education Scotland would like to invite practitioners working in early years and primary to this event.

Aims of the day are to:
build capacity in practitioners to deliver health and wellbeing with particular reference to transition from early years to primary.
share good practice in relation to specific transition programmes which feature health and wellbeing as their focus.
provide examples of a wide variety of different types of formal and informal transitions in early years and primary.
highlight how good partnership working can contribute to smooth transitions between early years and primary.

Register online by Friday 1 March 2013 to attend this event. Early registration is advised as this event is likely to be very popular. Workshop choices will be sent out early in March

Challenge, CPD, Events, Learning, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Scottish Learning Festival 2013 – Call for Participation now open

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The SLF team is pleased to announce that the Scottish Learning Festival 2013 will be taking place on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 September 2013. The theme for SLF 2013 is Raising the bar in Scotland – transforming lives through learning.
 
The conference secretariat is now open for abstracts for proposed participation. Abstracts of 200 words for proposed sessions on the above theme should be submitted by Friday 1 March 2013

Find out more here

Creativity, Events, News, Science

Association for Science Education

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Family science extravaganza returns to Perthshire  


A free, family fun day aimed at highlighting the excitement and relevance of science is taking place in Crieff in March.
 
‘Science Fun Factory’, which will showcase the weird and wonderful elements of science in all of its forms, will be held at Crieff Hydro on Saturday 9 March 2013. Last year, the event attracted around 1,000 visitors.
 
The event, which will run from 10 am until 4 pm, is being organised by the Association for Science Education. The event celebrates the Association for Science Education’s 50th anniversary year.
 
For more information, please contact Steuart Cuthbert – telephone 01764 670751, email steuartcuthbert@ase.org.uk or website

Events, News

Laugh and Learn this Red Nose Day, 6 February, 11.15 am

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Red Nose Day is back on Friday 15 March! Join the team from Comic Relief for this pre event on Glow TV. Get top tips on making Red Nose Day in your school fun and easy and develop understanding on how money raised can transform lives. This seminar will also feature a case study from John Duncan of Westhill Academy in Aberdeenshire. He will be telling us about how his students led their amazingly successful Red Nose Day in 2011 – by having fun, raising money and learning through the process.

Register here (glow password required)

CPD, Creativity, Events, News, Opportunities

Creative Leadership Symposium

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The Arches | Thu 21 Feb 2013 | 3pm-6pm | 

Free but ticketed (call 0141 565 1000 to reserve your place)

How do we embed creativity into the core curriculum? How can we be responsive to the individual needs of students and learners? What is classroom inertia and how does creative practice offer a way of reimaging how a curriculum is offered?

Is it possible for artists, creative educators and teachers to work collaboratively to offer a more radical pedagogy measured by more than subject achievement? Who might lead this and does it work? Is it effective? What are the benefits of this approach? How might this impact on future pedagogical approaches?

For the culmination of their creative leadership project 100 Little Pennies, run by Gary Gardiner at Oakgrove Primary School in Glasgow, The Arches are hosting a symposium event, followed by drinks, nibbles and an opportunity to network.

Introduced by Dee Heddon (University of Glasgow), contributors include Gary Gardiner andMurray Wason (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), David Cameron (Director of The Real David Cameron LTD), Helen Nicholson (Professor of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway) and Lesley Dunlop (Education Consultant).

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Creative Learning, Events, News, Opportunities

Running on the Cracks-The Tron Theatre

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WED 6 – SAT 16 FEBRUARY, 7.45pm
£12 (£7)

WORLD PREMIERE
RUNNING ON THE CRACKS
By JULIA DONALDSON

ADAPTED AS A PLAY BY ANDY ARNOLD
DIRECTED BY KATIE POSNER

Run. Keep running. You’re doing the right thing. Lay low. Head down. Don’t look back. Just keep running, but whatever you do don’t tread on the cracks……

Leo’s world has been turned upside down. With her parents gone and a creepy uncle becoming too close for comfort she’s certainly sure of one thing…she must get out. Leo’s on the run. She knows what she’s running from. Problem is where is she running to?

Adapted from the novel of the same name by the internationally acclaimed children’s writer Julia Donaldson, Running on the Cracks is a fast-moving new play about runaways, identity, survival and how friendships can develop in the strangest situations.

To support the Tron Theatre’s production of Running on the Cracks, Tron Participation is offering a range of opportunities for schools, youth groups and individuals to take part in workshops, talks, performances and therapeutic drama

Workshop Offer
Bringing a group to see Running on the Cracks? Then why not book some FREE workshops.

Pre and post show workshops are on offer to groups. These will allow participants to explore the themes from the production in a practical way. Working with a drama specialist these workshops will allow groups to explore and discuss issues such as making choices, consequences, danger, protection and relationships. Post-show workshop will include a contribution from Aberlour, who we are working in partnership with on this project. They will discuss risk awareness and keeping safe if someone feels like running away.

Glow Meet
Join Julia Donaldson, children’s laureate for a Glow Meet live from the Tron on Tuesday 29th January at 1.45pm. Julia will discuss her inspiration for the book and will answer your questions. Don’t miss this opportunity to speak with one of the UK’s leading children’s author.

How to book?
To book your free workshop call box office on 0141 552 4267 to book your groups show tickets.
Once you have completed this step you will be passed through to Participation who will schedule your workshops.

glow, News, Opportunities

Paper Creativity Challenge – Ernest, 15 January 2013, 11 am

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Now it is your chance to Glow Meet with Catherine Rayner as she reads her book ‘Ernest’. During this session you will have the opportunity to read and explore the story of Ernest, a rather large moose, with early years pupils and then Catherine will work with older children and demonstrate to them how to illustrate texts. Ideally learners should have paper and paint so that they can also try the techniques.

Find out more here (glow password required)

Events, News

All Credit to Scotland event – 8 February 2013

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The SCQF Partnership in collaboration with the West of Scotland Colleges Partnership (WOSCOP) is hosting a national conference on Friday 8 February 2013 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow. 

 The event will be opened by Angela Constance MSP, Minister for Youth Employment, and will highlight a number of projects undertaken to promote the credit rating of informal and non-formal learning.

The event will also hear from colleagues from other countries on the work they are undertaking in this area.