Twig on Glow – free resources for Scottish schools
Twig World is an award winning online resource that brings learning to life. Mapped to Curriculum for Excellence, Twig now offers over 800 short films and a vast library of support material for science, maths and geography.
Twig on Glow includes all content from Glow Science as well as new materials. Glow Science will continue to be available until January 2013.
SLF 2012 takes place on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 September in the SECC, Glasgow.The theme for this year’s festival is Creative Learning…Creative Thinking.The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF. There will be the following keynote speakers:
The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is available on the SLF website.
Join in the Summer Reading Challenge 2012 and step into the Story Lab to celebrate the world of stories and imagination. Story Lab is linked to the 2012 Olympics as the nations of the world gather for the Games.
Children aged 4 to 11 are invited to read six library books over the summer holidays. They join at their local library and a summer reading challenge pack gets them started. There are stickers and rewards to collect along the way and a gold medal is the ultimate achievement! By linking to the Story Lab website, children can also read, collect, share, create, transmit and broadcast stories.
The Challenge runs from the 2nd July to the 2nd of September, and children can sign up at any Fife Library.
Look out too for the programme of summer events and activities in libraries over the holidays. Details can be found on posters, at www.fifedirect.org.uk, or ask at any library.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/events/2012/eventgeneral_tcm4727005.asp
Education Scotland, in association with Scotland’s Colleges, is presenting this national conference on how well colleges and schools develop learners’ essential skills, building upon their prior experiences and preparing them for further learning or employment opportunities.
Authors Live: Roald Dahl Day Celebration
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/event/authors-live-roald-dahl-day-celebration
To celebrate Roald Dahl Day (and the 30th birthday of the BFG) Scottish Book Trust is streaming a celebratory event live from the BBC on September 13th. A great way to provide a focus for the new term’s work. It’s suitable for P2-P7 – register to watch it now
Funding Available for Author Visits
Did you know Scottish Book Trust provides funding to help you bring a writer/illustrator in to help with your projects? Whether you’re a school, book group, community learning group, writers’ circle or something else entirely, you’ll find lots of information in Scottish Book Trust’s newly revamped Live Literature Funding section.
Scottish Book Trust Needs You!
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookweekscotland
Do you love books, and want to share your passion with others? Join Scottish Book Trust’s League of Extraordinary Booklovers, a team of book enthusiasts that will help others with advice and support during Book Week Scotland!
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/
This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.
Following on from the success of last year’s Young People’s Day event, The Scottish Parliament is inviting young people from all across Scotland to this year’s ‘Get the Picture!’ event. We are working in partnership with the Scottish Youth Parliament, YoungScot and Fife Youth Radio to create an event to remember.
We are looking for a wide range of groups of young people aged 16 to 25 years old from all over Scotland to come and make this event even bigger and better than ever before! We would be very grateful therefore, if you would pass this e-mail on to any groups that you think would like to take part in this popular event.
One of the themes of this year’s Festival of Politics is ‘Positive Change’ and we have been working with a group of MSYPs to create a dynamic programme to reflect this. Groups will have the opportunity to represent themselves at the Marketplace which will have a bustling festival feel and take part in 4 debates on topics that groups taking part will suggest.
Groups wishing to attend the Get the Picture event should complete the online Booking Form or email Frances Paulo at frances.paulo@scottish.parliament.uk
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/gettinginvolved/52053.aspx
The Scottish Government has announced that Education Secretary Michael Russell has appointed the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Muffy Calder to convene an ICT Excellence Group to consider the future development of the schools’ intranet ‘Glow’.
The new ICT Excellence Group will draw on the experience and expertise of end-users, and educational technology experts to scope the long-term user-centred future of Glow.
The group members are as follows: Prof Muffy Calder, Prof Ian Sommerville, Prof Mike Sharples, Mr Ewan McIntosh, Mr Charlie Love, Prof Bill Buchanan, Mr Hamish Budge, Prof Jeff Haywood, Mr Neil Winton, Mr Tony Rafferty, Mr Fraser Speirs, Ms Jaye Richards Hill and Mr Martin Dewar who will facilitate the involvement of two school pupils in the group.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/07/schools05072012
http://www.engageforeducation.org/2012/07/glow-schools-it-excellence-group-set-up/
This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/
FCA&C recently held a summer school in collaboration with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. Aimed at 5th and 6th year pupils who were hoping to go on shortly to art school, the 2 day event was experienced by 10 pupils from all over Fife. They met 3 practising artists who described their career path to date and also gave them some practical sketching exercises. It was so successful that we hope to make this an annual event. As one pupil commented on leaving “…opened my eyes as to what art college would be like and in fact really
got me excited about going.” You can’t get better than that and we wish them all a lot of success in their future.
