Category Archives: Competition
Peachy Keen Primary School Competition
If you’ve seen the amazing Peachy Keen bike in action driving an animation in The Kingdom of If we’d like to invite your pupils to use their imaginations and think of another use for cycle power.
Peachy Keen have generously sponsored a schools competition where an innovative design could become a reality.
See details here: PeachyKeen competition form FINAL (1)
Safer Internet Day 2013-competition
Safer Internet Day 2013 will take place on Tuesday 5 February 2013, with the theme of Online Rights and Responsibilities, encouraging users to ‘Connect with Respect’.
The Scottish Government has launched a competition to raise awareness of the day. Full details are on the Scottish Government website.
500 words competition!
BBC Radio 2 competition
If you’re aged 13 or under, what are you waiting for? Get writing!
We want you to send us something mad, magical, mind-blowing or mysterious…
You could win yourself a pile of books as tall as Chris Evans, and 500 books for your school library!
Calling all teachers and librarians
Download our free 500 Words Resources pack which is full to the brim with ideas to encourage children to read and write.
Plus download our posters using the links below and help spread the word!
Enter the competition poster (1mb)
Become a judge poster (1mb)
Find out more from the official website
Chance to be Chancellor educational tool
The Citizenship Foundation has an online digital educational tool, Chance to be Chancellor, which gives students a chance to learn about, and share their opinions on, Budget 2013.
Chance to be Chancellor challenges students to make informed decisions on spending and taxation.
Chance to be Chancellor runs until 15 February 2013 and is open to all 14-18 year olds. To find out more click here
Our Europe – competition for Scottish secondary students
A new film-making competition for Scottish high school students aims to promote knowledge about the European Parliament and European Union and develop the ICT skills of young people.
Get full details here at the Global Citizenship blog
What difference would £5,000 make to your school?
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.
National Galleries of Scotland
Inspired? Get Writing! Creative Writing Competition 2013
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.
Junior Saltire Prize 2013
To help to raise awareness amongst young people of the exciting developments and opportunities of marine renewables in Scotland for the third successive year the Junior Saltire Award for primary and secondary school pupils is being organised. The competition is managed by Skills Development Scotland (SDS) in partnership with the Scottish Government and SCDI’s Young Engineers and Science Clubs Scotland.
This award is open to all primary P5-P7 and secondary S1-S3 and S4-S6 pupils in Scotland. Working in teams of up to four, pupils will design and build a model marine energy device to operate under test conditions. Schools can submit multiple entries provided each is registered separately.
Deadline for registration: 21 December 2012.
Download a registration form.
Register now for the Climate Week challenge
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.
- It is completely FREE.
- Any school or organisation can take part.
- Any number of teams can be entered.
- No preparation is needed.
- The Challenge will be revealed to teachers a week beforehand.
- All that a team needs is a table to work at with pens and paper.
