School story competition – promoting your school, community and Commonwealth values (extended deadline: 21 February 2014).
The BBC are looking for 3 schools – 1 in the UK and 2 from other Commonwealth countries who will make a film with the help of a TV crew, which best reflects the Commonwealth values and shares what it means to be a global citizen.
Winning schools will have their films featured on the BBC Commonwealth Class website www.bbc.co.uk/commonwealthclass.
A two-day conference for musicians and music workers at all stages of their career.
Whether you are a music student, an early-career musician, professional player, or a music industry worker, you share many issues of common interest. Packed with practical tips, networking opportunities and evening showcases, Words and Music will inspire, educate and entertain musicians and workers across all genres.
For more information please visit the website http://www.horsecross.co.uk/whats-on/words-and-music or like the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/wordsandmusicperth
Below are all the performances available at theatres across Fife ( Adam Smith Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Lochgelly Centre and Rothes Halls), suitable for primary aged pupils.
PUPPET ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Adam Smith Theatre
Carnegie Hall
Lochgelly Centre
Rothes Halls
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24/01/2014 09:30-10:15 Join us live from the Glow TV Studio as we celebrate Burns with a feast of Scottish songs – and accompanying instruments. Sing along with us and learn some new songs and some new Scots language as well! |
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You can also tell us what you are doing to celebrate Burns in your schools – we want to hear about all the exciting things you are doing.
So join us to sing and share in our Burns celebration! |
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This year Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 will be commemorated in Scotland on Monday 27th January and Glow is pleased to be able to bring teachers and learners across the country a number of unique and innovative opportunities to discover and share more about this important period in history. |
| Holocaust Learning Experience Launching on Monday 20th January
The Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) ‘Journeys’ Learning Experience is a collaborative space to share what your school is doing for HMD 2014 and take part in learner activities. We will be providing interactive opportunities for learners across the country to participate in events and learn more about the Holocaust via the new Glow environment. The learning experience is aimed at upper primary and secondary learners and will include a number of learning starters and a Holocaust discussion newsfeed to share what your schools are doing to commemorate the event. Videos and audio content and a number of learner challenges will be available to help you learn more about the history of the times surrounding these events. To help support practitioners, curriculum documents will be provided with the learning experience. Visit the Learning Experience today. |
| Live Glow Meet with Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on Wednesday 22nd January Minister for Education Mike Russell recently visited Auschwitz with pupils from various schools and during this Glow TV event you will have the opportunity to hear about his experience. Viewers will also hear from pupils at Broughton High School who also visited Auschwitz last year. There will be an opportunity to ask them your own questions during the event and learn more about their experiences when they were there. For more information and to get involved, visit Glow TV. |
| What is the Holocaust? on Monday 27th January
The Holocaust was a very important period in history and every year it is commemorated in January through the Holocaust Memorial Day. In this Glow TV event find out when these events took place, what actually happened and who was involved. In addition we will also look at how similar events have taken place since then throughout history and how it has affected the survivors. |
| National Event Scotland on Monday 27th January
The Scottish National Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 event will be broadcast live across Scotland through Glow. The MacRobert Centre in Stirling will welcome Holocaust survivor Alfred Munzer and Cambodian genocide survivor Arn Chorn Pond. The event starts at 6.30pm and the 2 hour programme will be filled with performances carried out by the Roma community and Rwandan community to make this a memorable and moving event. Information on how to take part can be found on Glow TV. If this time isn’t suitable, you will have the opportunity to Watch Again. |
| Meeting a Survivor on Tuesday 28th January
As part of HMD 2014, survivors of the Holocaust and genocide are visiting schools in Scotland. On 28th January Holocaust survivor Albert Munzer will be visiting the Glasgow Gaelic School and Glow TV will be there to broadcast the event to schools across Scotland. Join us to hear Albert’s experiences and ask him questions about his life. |
| HMD 2014 Glasgow Event Live from the City Chambers on Wednesday 29th January
Glasgow City Chambers will once again host this live event through Glow for schools across Scotland. This special broadcast, taking place from 10am, is run by young people for young people and the event is handed entirely over to pupils to develop the programme and broadcast the event. |
| Arts Response Challenge with Cambodian Genocide Survivor on Thursday 30th January
There will be opportunities to join with pupils around Scotland in several national HMD 2014 events including an arts response challenge with Cambodian genocide survivor, flautist and human rights activist Arn Chorn Pond.
On the day, schools from around Scotland will share their response to the theme of HMD 2014 – Journeys in the form of music, drama, poetry and more. For more information on this event on Glow TV. |
| Although these events are all broadcast live, they’re also recorded and you will have the opportunity to Watch Again. |
| Education Scotland has developed a range of other resources on the Holocaust to help support practitioners.
Kindertransport: escaping the holocaust resource, suitable for the broad general education and senior phase, explores the significance of the children’s transport during the Holocaust. The resource includes images, downloadable materials, video stories interviews and more. |
Write a Commonwealth Games song! Big Big Sing is a nationwide celebration of singing that will inspire thousands of people to get singing in the lead up to and during Games Time. As part of this project, Big Big Sing is running an exciting songwriting competition open to Primary and Secondary School pupils in Scotland.
Big Big Sing invites pupils to write a song inspired by the Commonwealth Games, pupils can work individually or as a class to write a song between three and five minutes in length. With the games just around the corner there’s no shortage of inspiration for budding songwriters!
Join us for this exciting behind the scenes look at puppetery as teachers work with Finn Caldwell who is one of the original War Horse puppeteers. Finn has directed the puppetry for productions of War Horse in the West End and in Australia. He has also just directed the puppetry in The Light Princess at the National Theatre and is directing a children’s puppetry show called Elephantom in The Shed.
For more information click here.
20 January, 1.30 pm
Join us for another series of live broadcasts from the National Museum of Scotland which let pupils explore our collections and meet our experts face to face. You can ask questions, come up with answers and explore our object handling collections on screen.
Click here for more information.
