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Creative Scotland, Creativity, Opportunities

Scotland’s Festivals take “One Step Further”

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The One Step Further investment programme aims to enhance the programmes of existing festivals and events during 2012, with a focus on cultural tourism.

Sixteen festivals are to receive a share of over £400,000 to help attract more visitors to Scotland during 2012: the Year of Creative Scotland.

Mike Cantlay, Chairman of VisitScotland said;

“Scotland is unquestionably one of the most creative countries in the world and these festivals will help showcase that vibrant creativity to new audiences.  Our culture is one of our greatest assets and a major draw for visitors – that’s why this programme is so important – it’s providing opportunities for visitors as well as local communities right across Scotland.”

One Step Further Investment in Fife:

  • While chamber music is at the heart of the acclaimed East Neuk Festival, One Step Further will enable it to extend its activities with several new initiatives including a new performance venue; outdoor performances by young musicians from Live Music Now; Pilgrims, an exhibition and labyrinth evoking St Andrews in the middle ages; and Littoral a programme introducing internationally renowned writers inspired by nature and the environment
Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Fairtrade Fortnight

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Begins today, 27 February…be inspired to create exciting learning experiences using this context!

It’s going to be a busy and exciting time for Fair Trade in Scotland with Fair Trade visitors from Uganda, Nicaragua, Ghana, Palestine, India, Malawi and Kenya. Here are details of Fife events;

Saturday 10 March: 2.30pm to 5pm: Talk followed by olive oil tasting, St Andrews University

Palestinian olive oil producers, Abu Kamal and Manal Abdallah will speak about how fair trade has made a difference to their lives. This will then be followed by an olive oil tasting. Venue: University of St Andrews, Venue 2, Students Union, St Mary’s Place, KY16 9UZ

Saturday 10 March: 5pm to 6pm: Meet Fairtrade producers, Cupar

An exciting opportunity to meet Palestinian Fairtrade olive oil producers, Abu Kamal and Manal Abdallah, and discuss their work. Venue: St Columba’s Church Hall, Ashlar Lane/West Port, Cupar, KY15 4AN

Competition, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, glow, Literacy and English

Fantastic Fife!

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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

Creativity, Events, Opportunities, Science

Fife Science Festival: Historic Scotland

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Terrible Trebuchets

and Menacing

Mangonels!

Discover the science, technology and historybehind medieval warfare. What technology was

used to attack St Andrews Castle and how did it

work? Tour the castle then experiment with

working models of siege engines!

Science workshops for schools as part of Fife

Science Festival. St Andrews Castle, Fife, 8 & 9

March 2012. P4-P7 pupils. £2 per pupil; adults free.

To book a session contact Historic Scotland

Learning Services;

Tel: 0131 668 8736/8793

Email: hslearning@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/learning

 

CPD, Creative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, Events, Marks on a Landscape, Primary schools, Secondary schools

CPD Event: Creative Learning!

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This session is aimed at primary and secondary teachers wishing to enhance their knowledge of the importance of creativity across the whole curriculum. It will introduce participants to Fife’s Creative Learning Network (CLN), a newly established group bringing together community representatives and key local and national cultural partners with education representatives.

This session will consider the importance of creativity as a higher order thinking skill and its relevance within CfE, launch Fife’s CLN glow group and introduce current creative resources from Education Scotland

4-5pm, ASDARC, Thursday 15th 2012

Book now…places going fast!

Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Primary schools

Fife Libraries World Book Week Event

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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!!!

 

 

Creative Learning, Creativity, Events, Opportunities, Primary schools, Science, Secondary schools

From sand dunes and robots to comedy and sport – Fife Science Festival

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Details of next month’s Fife Science Festival have been launched. For the first time in its history, Fife Science Festival has been extended to Dunfermline, with events also heading to St Andrews, Buckhaven, Burntisland, Glenrothes, Tayport and Kirkcaldy.
Funded by the Scottish Government, the Edina Trust and Podium (the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games), the festival will involve a diverse range of free events for schools and the general public.
A week-long science week will also held at Denbeath Primary School in Buckhaven with engineering insights at Adam Smith College in Glenrothes and wireless wonders at Museum of Communication at Burntisland. Secondary school pupils will also get the chance to make a prize-winning robot, while a lecture will explore what life would be like without evolution.

 

For more information, please contact Alexandra Forrest, Festivals and Events Officer, Dundee Science Centre on 01382 228800 or visit www.fifesciencefestival.org.uk

Competition, Curriculum for Excellence, glow, glow meet, Literacy and English, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Fantastic Fife!

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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!