Category Archives: Competition

Competition, Music, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

BBC Songs of Praise launches its next School Choir of the Year Competition – which gets more exciting every year!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ttc5

The BBC is looking for the best Junior and Senior School Choirs in the land!  Each school entering the competition should submit a CD of their choir singing one Christian hymn or worship song, from any published hymnbook, and one other choice that is inspired by or based upon the Christian faith.  The best choirs will compete against each other in three special editions of Songs of Praise (two semi-finals and a final), which will be recorded in Liverpool on 9 and 10 March 2013 and broadcast on BBC One next Spring.

So if you think your school choir has got what it takes, check out the BBC website at bbc.co.uk/songsofpraise, where you can find out all about the competition, watch this year’s finalists to see what your choir should be aiming for and download an application form with all of the rules, terms and conditions.  The deadline is not until 30 November, but now is the time to plan to take part so that your choir doesn’t miss the chance to be crowned champions!

Art, Art and Design, Competition, Education Scotland

Ready for 2013? Art competition with theme of preparing for emergencies

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http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/readyforemergencies/about/artcompetition.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0

Schools can take part in this competition to create pictures for a 14-month calendar. The calendar aims to communicate the importance of preparing for emergencies at home, in the community and in the car, and the easy steps that can be taken to do so.

Learners in primary and secondary schools are invited to design a picture that relates to one of the main themes, which have been categorised into topics.

For more information visit the Ready for Emergencies competition page and register today.

Art, Art and Design, Competition

Road Safety design competition

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Sustrans are asking young people to design a postcard on how 20 mph could improve their street – it could be a picture, a message, a poem or even a slogan. Can you be a two-zero hero and tell us how slower speed limits might change your life? Get creative and win a holiday, bike or even a BMX stunt display!

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/freerangekids/get-involved/be-a-two-zero-hero-competition?dm_i=6EB,UKYQ,MPEOL,2IIEZ,1

Competition, Creativity, Education Scotland, Marks on a Landscape, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Marks on the Landscape – last chance to enter the design challenge!

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Have you entered Education Scotland’s exciting design challenge?  You still have time! The design challenge is being run through the Marks on the Landscape website 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.

The competition closing date is 21 June 2012.

Challenge, Competition, Creativity, Expressive Arts, News, Opportunities, Secondary schools, Technologies

Two fantastic film opportunities for young people!

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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!

ALSO…

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! 

Click here for more details

 

Competition, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Calling all film makers!

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FILM NIGHT: WEDNESDAY 25 JULY

As part of the Aberdour Festival Family Film Night on Wednesday 25th July, Aberdour Festival is hosting its very own BAFTAs – Brilliant Aberdour Film Talent Awards. Budding film makers are invited to submit short films (of around five minutes) for showing on the night. If you have a film that you would like to show, or would like to make one especially for this event, please contact Lewis Banks for details of how to enter (01383 861267 / lewis@gallery8art.co.uk).

Submissions of all types are welcome from all ages and there will be prizes for the audience’s favourites on the night. There is a special prize for the committee’s favourite film produced by anyone under 16: Channel Fife TV has offered to work with a young person as a presenter and one as a camera operator and shoot for Channel Fife a topic of their choice. Your chance to work with the professionals! Graeme Campbell, Project Director at Channel Fife TV, said, ‘Channel Fife TV is developing a web broadcast television service across Fife and is delighted to be able to support local programme making in the community by sponsoring the Aberdour Festival Film Night.’ 

 ‘We are hoping to receive films on a wide range of topics, comedy, drama or documentary, from anyone who wants to pick up their camera or mobile phone and have a go. Maybe you could be the next Quentin Tarantino, Bill Forsyth or Steven Spielberg!’
Lewis Banks
 
Competition, Opportunities, Primary schools

“Stop Vandalism in Your Community” Storyboard Competition – Shortlist Announced

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Say4schools recently launched a competition for Primary 6 and 7 pupils in Fife Schools to create a short storyboard on the theme of “Stop Vandalism in Your Community”.

The initiative is a joint partnership between Fife’s Community Safety Panels, Fife Education Service, Fife Constabulary and Adam Smith College and is now in its second year.  The aim of the initiative is to deliver messages of safety through cartoons, animation or pupil voices.

The competition has been a great success and attracted over 700 entries from schools all over Fife.  The quality of entries has been outstanding and the judges had a difficult time choosing the 21 shortlisted entries (3 from each Community Safety Area) to attend an Awards Ceremony on Thursday 21 June at Auchterderran Centre, where the winner will be announced.

A big thank you to all pupils who entered the competition – you’re all small genius’ with great imaginations.

Click on the link to see all shorlisted entries http://bit.ly/KSBo0R

Competition, Creativity, News, Opportunities

Scottish Book Trust

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The search is on for Scotland’s Favourite Place

Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have launched an exciting new writing project to encourage people to write about the place in Scotland that they love the most.

My Favourite Place in Scotland is running from 19 March to 31 August 2012, and in that time Scottish Book Trust wants to involve everyone in Scotland in building a written picture of Scotland’s best-loved places.

Submissions should be made to Scottish Book Trust website and can be written in a huge variety of different forms, such as a story, poem, song lyrics, a short play or sketch, a letter or even diary entry.

Each submission will feature on Scottish Book Trust’s website and a selection of the most interesting and inspiring offerings will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and published in a book in late 2012.

Submissions can be made online at http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/myfavouriteplace or by post to My Favourite Place, Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunks Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.

The closing date for entries is 31 August 2012.

For more information read Scottish Book Trust press release.

Competition, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Children’s photography exhibition a resounding success

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The winning photographs in the Art in the Windows project were unveiled to the public in Cupar on 27th April, and over 200 people came to see them.

Pupils from the four primary and secondary schools in Cupar worked with a professional photographer on the ‘Art in the Windows’ project for two months, photographing themselves getting active around the town to inspire Cupar residents to get moving.

Click here for more info