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Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, News, Primary schools, resources, Secondary schools

New resources added to Testimony website

February 9, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

Testimony is Education Scotland’s high quality resource to support learning and teaching in religious and moral education. This site illustrates how faith, belief and values can influence how a person acts and lives their life. It includes examples of religious and non-religious standpoints to show how people from around the world and in Scotland have been influenced by faith, belief and values.

New resources have now been added to the site including some BBC Class Clips that are relevant to the different sections. There are also additional video clips that will act as a stimulus for class discussion and debate. These can be used in conjunction with the text or adapted to suit the needs and context of your classroom.

CPD, Creative Partners, Creativity, News, Opportunities

FREE CPD Opportunity – ‘A Kingdom of IF’ – Twilight CPD Session

February 9, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

Fife Contemporary Art and Craft are delighted to offer primary teachers across Fife a FREEtwilight CPD session, supported by Fife’s Creative Learning Network. This CPD session compliments ‘The Kingdom of If – Art and Sustainability in Fife’ MAC’s* 2012-13 Exhibition which has been organised by FCA&C, and curated by Jonathan Baxter. The CPD session explores the educational resources created to link the exhibition with cross curricular art and environment themes, with participants trying out hands-on art activities which can then be used in the classroom.

The activities will be led by the exhibition organisers and artists Jonathan Baxter & Sarah Gittins.

Date(s): 18 February 2013 and repeated on 28 February 2013

Venue: Lecture Hall, Auchterderran Centre

Time: 4pm-6pm

Cost: FREE

Participants: Primary School Teachers

How to Book a CPD Session:

Course information is available on the Fife CPD System and applications should be made in the normal way.

*MAC – Fife’s Mobile Museum. MAC is a free service which comes out to schools and community venues around Fife. Interested in bringing MAC to your school? Contact Janet Klak on 08451 555 555 Ext 472779 or email janet.klak@fife.gov.uk

(flyer attached) MAC Exhibition

CPD, Creativity, News, Opportunities

Creativity and Learning in the Wild

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

Tuesday 26 February 2013

10:00 – 16:00

The Falcon Education Centre, Aviemore

This active, outdoor event aims to inspire lecturers to work creatively out of doors, developing interdisciplinary skills with creative approaches. The event will also offer an opportunity to develop an understanding of the John Muir Award and how this can be used to enhance learners’ skill and qualifications. A major feature of the day will be designing and carrying out activities including shelter building, generating ideas of how to use this as potential evidence for assessment.

View programme and book online

Global Citizenship, News, Opportunities

Cultural Exchange opportunity in Los Angeles for socially-engaged emerging leaders

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

The British Council has established an exchange programme in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), which aims to facilitate creative partnerships between emerging leaders in cultural practice for social action in UK and LA. We are offering three grants of around $6500 each to support socially-engaged emerging cultural leaders from the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) to undertake residencies of two to three weeks with one or more host organization(s) in Los Angeles. Attached is a PDF with full guidelines for this opportunity.

The residencies will take place in the City’s 2013-14 fiscal year, starting July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014. This is the second part of an exchange program that has seen three Los Angeles based cultural leaders undertake residencies in the UK during the 2012-13 fiscal year.

All applications need to be in by 15 March.

UK DCA Pilot Phase 2 Guidelines

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Twig wins prestigious industry award for second year running

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

Twig World, the creators of Twig on Glow, have been awarded a prestigious BETT Award in the Digital Collections and Resource Banks category. For the second year running, the Glasgow-based start up has won this top education award for outstanding digital content.

Judges praised Twig for a “well-designed and presented resource that can be used to support the curriculum as well as independent learning”. Twig is provided free to all Scottish local authority schools via Glow, at www.twigonglow.com.

News

Experts pool knowledge to tell the complete history of Scotland

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

Experts from a wide range of disciplines are pooling their skills and knowledge in a bid to piece together a comprehensive record of Scotland’s past.

Archaeologists, historians, scientists and specialists in climatology and the natural sciences hope that by bringing their research and data together in one place, they’ll be able, eventually, to map out the history of Scotland in its entirety.

They’ve produced a graphic novel-style guide – Telling Scotland’s Story – illustrated by the Scottish comic artist Sha Nazir of Blackhearted Press and written by RCAHMS Communications Manager James Crawford, to explain the project.

Find out more here

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

Scottish Learning Festival 2013 – Call for Participation now open

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

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

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

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

Challenge, Competition, Global Citizenship, News, Opportunities

The Big Pedal (28 February – 20 March 2013)

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

Sustrans invites schools to register for this free competition. The Big Pedal will be taking place from the 28 February to 20 March 2013.

It is a ‘cycle and scoot to school competition that all schools can benefit from taking part in’.

If schools do not want to commit to the whole event they can choose to join in one or all of the three daily stages.

Find out ‘How it works’

News, Science

Higgs Prize kicks off FM science showcase

February 6, 2013 Ms Higgins Leave a comment

An annual prize to honour the world-renowned Edinburgh University scientist who has given his name to the Higgs boson is to be announced by the First Minister, launching a week showcasing Scottish science.

The annual Higgs Prize will be open to Scottish school students who excel in physics. It will be formally launched by the First Minister and Professor Peter Higgs at a reception at the First Minister’s official residence on Tuesday 5 February.