Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology and health and wellbeing.
All resources are free with your Glow log-in.
A flashmob of children from four Dunfermline primary schools performed a secret song they helped compose called ‘Fife goes Olympic’ today.
Around 170 primary 6 &7 youngsters gave unsuspecting shoppers at the Kingsgate Shopping Centre a big surprise when they performed their song for the first time ahead of the Olympic Torch Relay in Dunfermline.
The pupils from Cairneyhill, Duloch, St Margaret’s RC and St Leonards Primary Schools have been working together on the top secret project which was supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and Fife Council under the ‘Summer of Song: Celebrating the Olympic Torch in Scotland’ banner.
The children wrote their very own Olympic Song for Fife during a songwriting process which was led by musicians from Edinburgh based charity, Fischy Music.
The charity worked with the children over the course of four weeks to compose their song and co-ordinate their special flashmob surprise.
Fischy Music has worked directly with children for over 14 years and their resources, promoting emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing, are used in thousands of schools across the UK and beyond.
Also helping to support the performance on the day were the Kingsgate Shopping Centre Management team and representatives from Queen Anne Singers and Dunfermline Choral Union.
Heather Gibson, Area Cultural Co-ordinator from Fife Council who lead the project said: “This really has been a top secret project as we wanted to make sure everyone got a big surprise!
We were delighted to receive funding from Creative Scotland and the council to make this project come to life. We also worked closely with the council’s Education Service who advised us on potential schools to develop the project with and also recommended the specialised skills Fischy Music could bring to this very exciting idea.
I’d like to thank them, the children and staff from the schools involved, who really embraced this idea from the very beginning and who were delighted to be involved in making Fife Secret Song a reality.”
As a thank you to the hard work and dedication of the children, the staff, Fischy Music and Fife Council’s Cultural Partnerships Team to make this flashmob happen, please help us promote Fife’s Secret Song – ‘Fife Goes Olympic’ far and wide. Tell everyone you know to go to www.youtube.com/Thefifecouncil to view Fife Council’s flashmob clip and also search Dunfermline Flashmob which Colin Weaver (parent) kindly put up of almost the full concert! Get ‘sharing’, ‘blogging’ and ‘tweeting’!
TeachMeet – teachers sharing ideas with teachersThe Scottish Learning Festival is great. It’s a fantastic opportunity to find out about what’s going on, have your thinking stretched and network with colleagues from across the country, and beyond. However, it’s midweek. Many classroom teachers struggle to make it to SLF as they’re too busy teaching classes! And anyway, in Scotland a festival is not really a festival unless it has a fringe festival. Enter, TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe
The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website.
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.
In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.
The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.
What a fantastic and unique Film-Making scheme for your young people. We are looking for twenty 16-19 year olds to get involved in the Edinburgh International Film Festival and make a short film, which will be screened at the Filmhouse in August! 
Click here for more details!
Are you aged between 16 – 25? Could you make a sci-fi film in just a few short days? If you are up for the challenge you could get your film screened at EIFF this year!
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Positive and inspiring use of the internet is at the heart of the Childnet Film Challenge 2012. Childnet is inviting all schools and youth organisations in the UK to enter their challenge. Two separate projects are in place for primary and secondary aged children.
Visit Creativity Portal for more info
As part of the Year Of Creative Scotland 2012 we are asking members of the public to collaborate with us in the creation of a unique feature-length documentary film.
We want you to take out your cameras and record your own personal videos about Scotland’s past, present and future.
Project submissions are open from 20 March to 21 June 2012 and you can submit as many video contributions as you like.
We will then gather together all this footage and edit it into a unique, first in a lifetime, vision of Scotland in the Year 2012
Two day workshops are being held in Fife…click NLWorkshopRegistration to register.
Culture Hack Scotland is a fast-paced and highly creative event that challenges designers, technologists and artists to make innovative new culture-related projects in just 24 hours.
If you are a designer, a developer or a creative technologist and you want to make something amazing, new & culture-related in the time it take the earth to revolve around its axis, then this is the event for you.
If you work in the arts & culture sector and want to learn more about the skills and thinking required for programming, then join our Culture Track which includes a Learn How To Code workshop…click here for more info.
2012 is the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, and celebrates the contribution that older people make to life and society. One aspect of this theme is the quality of the relationship and interaction between the different generations in society, and among the initiatives addressing this theme are two which will interest teachers..click here for more info.
Education Scotland has launched a national challenge for learners to design a double-sided billboard to be seen by people entering and leaving Scotland.
The design challenge is being run through the Marks on the Landscape website , an interdisciplinary learning resource focussed on creativity skills, within the learning context of the land regeneration project Fife Earth.
The challenge is aimed at those working within second, third and fourth curriculum levels. It could be incorporated into planning for a number of curriculum areas including art and design, social studies, religious and moral education, technologies and sciences, and the themes of sustainability and global citizenship.
