Education Scotland’s Early Years Matters magazine is published twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The Early Years team at Education Scotland is keen to seek practitioners’ views on this professional development publication in order to inform future issues of the magazine.
Please take part in the online survey which will only take a few minutes to complete but will be hugely beneficial to the editorial team. The survey closes on Friday 30 November 2012.
As announced on Engage for Education last week, the Scottish Government and its partners are developing a new CfE senior phase benchmarking tool to help local authorities and secondary schools to analyse, compare and improve the performance of pupils in the senior phase of Curriculum for Excellence. One of the early tasks on which the project team are seeking views is the name of the tool. A canvassing exercise has been launched on Engage and Glow and will run until Friday November 30. The results will be passed to the Project Board and CfE Management Board for their final consideration. Take part here,we would welcome your ideas and suggestions.
22/11/12 10:00 – 11:30This year Poppyscotland have teamed up with Glow TV to bring you a series of events about remembrance. This is the final event in this series.
From 20th – 23rd November 2012, Surgeons’ Hall Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons will host a unique theatrical and educational event. ‘Wounded’ is a new play, which has been written by members of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre for students from S3 upwards.
Wounded is a free educational event which has two aims: to bring to life elements of the Curriculum for Excellence, particularly in History, English, Drama and Citizenship; and to support outreach initiatives for students, enabling interaction with museum collections.
This is your chance to watch ‘Wounded’ from the comfort of your own classroom.
On Friday 30 November at 11am we’re holding The Reading Hour.The idea is to get as many people in the country as possible reading at the same time. This is an easy, fun way to participate in Book Week Scotland, and gives you a chance to build excitement and anticipation!
We have a free learning resource full of ideas to help you make the most of The Reading Hour. You can download it online here
We’ve already had a great response to The School We’d Like competition, which we are running with Zurich Municipal. The competition offers three lucky schools the chance to win £5,000.
There’s still time for your school to enter – all we’re asking you to do is to tell us how you would spend it making your school an even better place to learn. Each winning school should use the prize money to help make their winning idea a reality.
This is an opportunity for the whole school – teachers, students and school councils – to put their heads together. Maybe purchasing new equipment for your school band would revolutionise your music department? Or perhaps you want to develop your anti-bullying programme? Or plan an educational trip? The judges are looking for some really inspiring and creative ideas that will make a difference to your school.
To get you started, we’ve created a series of teaching resources that will inspire your students to come up with an exciting idea on how they can improve their school. In addition we have a great poster for you to download from our website to spread the word about this exclusive competition within your school.
For more information and to register your interest please click here.
Learning Lessons from the Past
Sunday 11 November 2012 was Remembrance Sunday and with Holocaust Memorial Day 2013 coming soon in January, it’s a fitting time to think about planning your activity to commemorate the Holocaust and other genocides. On Remembrance Sunday we take time to remember and reflect on the sacrifices made by our courageous men and women who fought in the First and Second World Wars and in more recent conflicts, who gave their lives for the peace and freedom we enjoy today.
It was these men and women who liberated concentration camps such as Bergen Belsen and allowed persecuted people to walk free. They were not the only ones who rescued people facing persecution, ordinary men and women such as Paul Grüninger did what they thought was right. It was these individuals who also fought against hatred and allowed communities to come together. To continue their actions and bring your community together on Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2013 read our Theme Paper Communities Together: Build a Bridge and order your free Campaign Pack today.
To bring your school community together on 27 January visit our education website for free our resources.
On 20 August, StAnza launched its new documentary film of this year’s festival, which took place in March this year. The film was previewed on YouTube, Facebook and has been uploaded on StAnza’s website, but this was the first time it had been screened in front of a live audience: during the ‘St Andrews: A Year of Celebration’ showcase in Edinburgh. The short film goes behind the scenes and captures the vibrant atmosphere of StAnza in its St Andrews setting.
The team behind StAnza International Poetry Festival have launched a new blog to bring young poets together online. The blog will have the low down on the latest poetry news and will also encourage young poets to write poems and share them online. StAnza already has a great history of encouraging fife teens and children with their ever-popular annual poetry competition and the time has now come to build on that success by reaching kids in the rest of Scotland and, hopefully, world -wide!
School pupils and their teachers are invited to choose an inspirational painting, photograph, print or sculpture from the National Galleries of Scotland’s Collection and to create a piece of poetry or prose not exceeding 1,000 words in length.
Works may be viewed in person, or online at www.nationalgalleries.org/onlinecollections
There are three categories for school pupils:
Category A School Pupils Under 12
Category B School Pupils 12-14 Years of Age
Category C School Pupils 15-18 Years of Age
There will be ten awards in each category: Winner, two Runners-up and seven Special Merit.
All will be included in a public reading at the Scottish National Gallery in April 2013.
Full details of rules, and a very comprehensive and helpful resource, can be found here.
The closing date is Friday 18 January 2013.
Register for the Climate Week Challenge – a fun, free and easy-to-organise event to enable your school to take part in Climate Week 2013. Climate Week is Britain’s biggest climate change campaign.
During the week of 4-10 March 2013, thousands of events and activities planned by organisations from every part of society will showcase real, practical ways to combat climate change.
The Climate Week Challenge can be held on any day during Climate Week. There are two versions of the Climate Week Challenge to choose from – one-hour and one-day – and the one-day version is judged nationally by a panel of judges.
Learners of any age are challenged to come up with creative solutions to climate change. The activity helps develop creativity, innovation and enterprise, team-working skills and experience of tackling real-life environmental issues to a deadline.
There are eight age categories, with different levels of sophistication expected, but everyone – from primary pupils to senior managers – will be given the same core task.
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