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Art and Design, Competition, Creativity, News, Opportunities, Secondary schools

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation – NGS free workshops for 14–19 year olds

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The BP Portrait Award showcases the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. BP Portrait Award: Next Generation opens up free opportunities for 14–19 year olds to creatively engage with portraiture.

The National Galleries of Scotland are hosting the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this winter. They are offering four, short taster sessions where young people can experiment with drawing techniques and two, two-day Winter Schools where young people can experience a more intense approach to drawing and painting, coached by past BP Portrait Award-winning artists.

These are free and open to young people from all over Scotland. A small number of travel bursaries are available to young people on application.

For more information or to book a place, please email Joanna Mawdsley, Schools Education Officer.

Competition, Creativity, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

My Place Photography Competition

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The My Place Photography Competition is a built environment photographic project run by the Scottish Civic Trust for primary and secondary school-aged children throughout Scotland.  It aims to provide young people with the opportunity to express their thoughts, experiences and perspectives on the heritage, buildings and archaeology around them.

Click here for more information

Competition, Creativity, Events, glow meet, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools, Technologies

What does remembrance mean?

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This year Poppyscotland has teamed up with Glow TV to bring you a series of events about remembrance. 

This is the first of this thought provoking series. During this Glow Meet you will get the chance to hear from and chat with St Brigid’s Primary school as they talk about their experience of entering and winning Moving Stories 2011 and how you can enter the competition this year! Other Glow TV events on Remembrance will take place on 8 November and 22 November

For full details of this event, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule (Glow log-in and password required).

Competition, Creativity, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

We-CTV, the Scottish Youth Parliament’s anti-knife crime project

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Download the entry pack here

The deadline for entry to We-CTV, the Scottish Youth Parliament’s anti-knife crime project, has been extended until Monday 5th November 2012 – there’s now just a week to get your entries in!

All the young people you work with have to do in the next week is spend an hour or so putting together a storyboard and completing the entry form – in return you get to help them to engage with the issue of knife crime and enter a national competition, with the chance to win top notch prizes. 

If you are intending to participate, it’d be great to hear back from you to help us to work out how many entries we’re likely to have – give us a call (0131 557 0452) or send an email to steven.k@syp.org.uk to let us know.

This is a great opportunity to engage with knife crime in a quick, fun way.  The project is supported by the Scottish Government’s No Knives, Better Lives initiative – find out more information and download everything you’ll need to enter at www.syp.org.uk/wectv.  

 

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National Library of Scotland

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Hansel and Gretel competitions

Writers and schools in Scotland are invited to take part in competitions centered around ‘Hansel and Gretel’. The Grimms’ fairy tale is the focus of a revolutionary creative project by Scottish Ballet, ‘Hansel & Gretel & me’.

If you are a competition winner, your story will help inspire the development of a new ‘Hansel and Gretel’ ballet production, to be premiered in 2013/2014. The competitions are a collaborative venture between Scotland’s national ballet company and the National Library of Scotland. Find out more on the National Library of Scotland website.

Primary Schools Competition

Adults Competition

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Headline writing competition

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The Daily What has launched a headline writing competition for nine to 16 year olds.

The winning entry will be picked by the editor-in-chief of the Herald & Times newspaper group, from a shortlist chosen by the Daily What News team.

The winner’s headline will be published with the story on the Daily What News website, and will appear in the Herald newspaper. 

Deadline for entries is Sunday 21 October 2012

Competition, Creativity, Global Citizenship, News, Opportunities

Schools enterprise competition

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‘Micro Tyco‘ is a competition with the potential for inspiring children and young people to think and be creative in an enterprising way while also becoming aware of business ethics. The one month challenge kicks off at the start of November when participants work in teams to transform £1 into as much money as possible.

Schools can register teams online, to get ready for the start of the competition.

Art, Competition, Creativity, Expressive Arts, Opportunities, Secondary schools

The Jolomo Schools Painting Award

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The Jolomo Schools Painting Award sponsored by Bank of Scotland will be run for the first time in school year 2012-13.  Students from the senior phase at all Scottish secondary schools are invited to take part in the inaugural schools painting award.  Students are asked to paint and submit their interpretation of the Scottish landscape.  The winner will receive £500, with an additional £500 going to the winning schools Art Department.  The winner will also have the opportunity to be mentored by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo).  More information can be found by clicking on ‘How to enter’ on the home page of The Jolomo Foundation website:  www.jolomofoundation.org.

Competition, News, Opportunities, Primary schools

European animal life – competition for primary schools

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The new European Parliament office in Scotland competition for primary pupils asks them to create images to illustrate a 2013 Calendar on the theme of ‘Europe’s rich Animal Kingdom’. The competition is now open for entries to be submitted until the deadline of 9th October.

The organisers are especially keen to see artwork of some of the rarer European animals, birds and insects. The diversity of species which live in Europe provides plenty of scope for creative young people.

The artwork will be judged by a panel of MEPs and European Parliament officials, with prizes and a presentation to the winner. The winner of the competition will feature in a calendar made up of children’s drawings from all over Europe, and will also illustrate one month, along with eleven runners up, in the official EP Office in Scotland 2013 calendar. All schools entering the competition will receive a copy of the finished calendar, and a selection of the illustrations will also be exhibited at the EP Office in Edinburgh.

Good luck to all the Scottish children who take part.