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Category Archives: Competition
Lantra Secondary School Awards now open for nominations!
Lantra Scotland, the sector skills council for the land-based and aquaculture industries, is seeking early nominations for their Secondary School Awards which take place at the Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards in early 2015. The award is open to both urban and rural secondary schools with the winning school in each category receiving £250.00.
The Secondary School Awards recognise school projects and activities which support and encourage increased knowledge and understanding in rural learning. To highlight and celebrate the success of school initiatives, Lantra has brought forward the closing date for nominations this year to 16th May 2014. This will allow the judging panel to visit the nominated schools during the Spring season, enabling them to get a more comprehensive look at the entrants and their respective projects in full bloom.
The award finalists will be announced at Lantra Scotland’s stand at the Royal Highland Agricultural Show on Thursday 19th June, and the winning schools will be announced at the award ceremony and gala dinner early in 2015.
For more information about the Secondary School Awards and to access a downloadable nomination form please visit:
http://www.lantra.co.uk/Downloads/Scotland/LBLOYA-2015-Schools-nomination.aspx.
For all other enquiries please contact Lantra Scotland on tel: 01738 646 762 or e-mail lantra.scotland@lantra.co.uk
Scotland’s Stories of Home
Scottish Book Trust has launched an exciting new writing project to encourage pupils and teachers across Scotland to write about what home means to them, with a selection of entries to be published in a free e-publication. Scotland’s Stories of Home will run from 23 March – 30 June, and in that time Scottish Book Trust wants to build a written picture of what Scotland means to the children who live here. Is it your house, your home town, your home team or your homeland? Is it your family, your friends or your online community? Is it a smell, a taste, a sound or a sensation?
Submissions should be personal pieces of writing about real-life experiences and should be no longer than 1000 words. They can be written in a variety of different forms, such as a story, poem, song lyrics, a rap, a letter or even diary entry, and should be submitted via the Scottish Book Trust website. To help school pupils contribute their responses, Scottish Book Trust has designed a resource pack full of activity suggestions, aimed at primary and secondary school teachers and librarians who would like to use the Scotland’s Stories of Home project in their school. The resources are available at scottishbooktrust.com/storiesofhome.
With enjoyment and choice at the heart, these resources will help pupils of all abilities develop writing, research and talk skills while exploring the objects, places or concepts that mean most to them. A selection of pupils’ stories, chosen by a panel of young people, will be published in a free e-publication available to download during Book Week Scotland 2014.
Would you like to win £1000 for your school or group?
Enter Scotland’s Environment Website Youth Discussion competition by 31 March for a chance to win.
We have £1000 to award to the best school/group entry and £100 for the best individual entry. We have lots of other exciting prizes including HP tablets, educational experience days with a “green” theme, a backstage tour of The Hydro and tickets to the Irn Bru Carnival 2014.
To enter, just answer the following question: “What needs to change in your local community that will make a positive difference to your environment and what role can you play in making it happen?”then submit your answer in an imaginative way.
Follow the link for further information about this competition and to get an entry form:www.environment.scotland.gov.uk/yd
The competition is easy to enter and is relevant to many areas of the curriculum including drama, art, science, English and even modern languages. This means entering the competition can easily be dovetailed into current project work or class topics. The competition entry rules are very flexible which enables teachers to choose the level of input they feel is appropriate and suitable for their pupils. A number of useful teaching aids and resources have been developed that provide a good starting point.
You can choose to present your answer in a number of formats from a simple drawing, painting or report to something more complex such as a video, website or photographic essay; be as creative as you want!
The competition is open to all young Scots aged between 5 and 18 years old and you can enter as an individual or as a group e.g. Eco Group, class, youth group. The closing date is 31 March 2014 so there is still time to enter – what are you waiting for?
Your entry may also be eligible for the Young Reporters for the Environment competition. It is being run in Scotland by Keep Scotland Beautiful and is open to young people aged 11 to 21 years.
Cannes-struther International Short-Film Festival!
Please find below information regarding an exciting project that we are undertaking here at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, Scotland.
For Festival of Museums 2014 and to accompany our new exhibition ‘Distant Shores’, we will be holding a mini-international film festival, on the theme of coastal life.
The competition culminates in a glamorous Gala Awards evening on the 17th May in the museum, when Anstruther will be reinvented as Cannes-struther!
Even if you may be a bit distant to join us for the evening we would still love for you to be involved by submitting a film entry. All the entry criteria are available on our website http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/events/view/47/festival-of-museums-2014 and in the documents below, we are keen to encourage entries from all ages and abilities.
Hidden Stories’ Animation Competition
Red Kite Animation and Edinburgh Museums & Galleries present an exciting animation competition designed to celebrate Edinburgh’s rich heritage and the art of animation.
Budding animators are invited to submit short animated films of 1-3 minutes, based upon either a real or imagined backstory to an object of their choice, housed in one of Edinburgh Museums & Galleries, including the City Art Centre, Museum of Childhood, Laursiton Castle and the Museums Store.
Check www.edinburghmuseums.org for details of venues.
Submissions from any groups or individuals are invited for anyone living or studying in Scotland in the following three competition categories :
Primary School age
Secondary School age
Matriculated students in Further or Higher Education.
The deadline is 31st March 2014
Entries are free.
More information available at:
http://www.redkiteworkshops.co.uk/competition.html
For tips on how to make an animated film click here
Judging
Entries will be judged by a panel of animation professionals and educators including: Will Anderson, Jared Taylor and Sueann Smith, and Cllr Lewis.
Benefits
For older, aspiring animators, this is a wonderful opportunity to have their work seen by some of Scotland’s most esteemed animation professionals and, for younger animators, an opportunity to enjoy being creative and have fun.
Prizes
Grand prize… a bespoke Red Kite Animation Workshop.
Winners films will be showcased in an exhibition at one of the venues within the Edinburgh Museums & Galleries; as well as on the Red Kite Animation and Scottish Animation Network websites, reaching hundreds of animation professionals worldwide.
Contact Fiona Henderson, Workshop and Education Officer at Red Kite Animation for more information
Red Kite Animation
89 Giles Street
Edinburgh EH7 8BZ
0131 554 0060
2014 Fringe Schools Poster Competition
There is still plenty of time to enter the 2014 Fringe Schools Poster Competition and be in with a chance to win £750 for your school! The winning design will become the official poster for the 2014 Fringe and all shortlisted entries will feature in a special exhibition in Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe.
Closing date for entries is 17:00, Friday 07 March 2014
The Fringe Schools Poster Competition is open to all school children in Scotland aged 5 – 16, and we are looking for a unique and eye-catching poster design that represents the variety and vibrancy of the Fringe – the rest is up to you!
For full details of how to enter, the design brief, what your pupils could win and terms and conditions download the entry pack at www.edfringe.com/poster . You can request a printed pack by emailing poster@edfringe.com or by calling 0131 226 0036.
Good luck! We look forward to receiving your entries!
WorldSkills: registration opens Monday 10 February 2014
A reminder that registration for WorldSkills UK National Competitions opens again on Monday 10 February 2014.
There are a number of tools available to assist with pre-competition activities that can be carried out at your college to prepare competitors for participation in WorldSkills UK competitions:
- Take a look at the WSUK Coaching Manual
- The Competitor Preparation Toolkit is available to help competitors fully prepare themselves ahead of the regional and national competitions
- There are also a number of Lesson Plans, which are designed to help you guide and support individuals and groups of learners as they prepare to participate in competition activities.
Registration is open from Monday 10 February 2014 until Friday 21 March 2014. Find out more on the WordSkills UK website.
18+ Scotland’s young innovators challenged to transform our society
Young people across Scotland are being challenged to find groundbreaking ways to address the country’s most pressing social problems. The Young Innovators Challenge is open for entries, with a new focus on social innovation, ideas which will help address some of society’s most complex issues. Entrants with the best ideas stand to win £2,500 and support to help develop their plans further. The challenge is open to all young people living in Scotland over the age of 18 in college or university education or on apprenticeship programmes.
EXTRA WEEK FOR SUBMITTING – My Place Photography Competition
*NEW* Deadline Friday 7 February 2014 *NEW*
Due to our new website launch we have extended the deadline for submitting images by one week. Sign up now to take part in a national competition that encourages your pupils to get out doors, get involved in the subjects of architecture, placemaking, civic pride and photography.
· Every image submitted will be displayed on our online gallery and exhibited in our exhibition at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, from March to May 2014.
· Winning entries are published in the International Photographic Experience catalogue, shared across Europe.
· Winners will receive a camera for themselves and one for their school.
The Scottish Civic Trust’s My Place Photography Competition is a Scotland-wide heritage photographic project for schools.
It encourages children to look at their built heritage in the places they live, and through the medium of photography, develop an understanding of the things around them.
To take part:
Register as a member – sign up FREE HERE
Submit your students images – click HERE for guidance
For more information on the competition background click HERE
