Nesta are running a one day digital creativity CPD event for primary school teachers. Find out more about digital activities you can introduce into your own classroom. Choose from four workshops on website creation, animation, Scratch and Kodu. No previous experience is necessary.
Please find below details of events and training coming up over the next couple of months.
If you are interested in any of the events contact the office on 01592 611319 or email nichola@youth1st.co.uk.
Places are limited on the workshops so book now to avoid disappointment.
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Attached are flyers for all the workshops. Please complete a registration form to book a place.
Emergency First Aid
Date: 13/05/14 16/09/14
Time: 5.30 to 9pm
Venue: Youth 1st
Cost: £25 per person
Hosted by Youth 1st and delivered by qualified First Aid instructors from Thistle Medical, this session gives the first aider the confidence
to deal with most emergency situations until the arrival of the emergency services.
There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 1st May 2014.
Dynamic Youth Awards
Date: 27/05/14
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: Youth 1st
Cost: FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.
This induction training course is aimed at youth workers or volunteers who are thinking about introducing Dynamic Youth Awards to their young people. Dynamic Youth Awards are activity based and are designed to encourage young people to progressively take more responsibility in organising activities in their communities. Attendance at the induction is a requirement before you can deliver the awards to young people. This ensures that the Awards are completed to the standard that the awarding body, ASDAN require.
There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 12th May 2014.
Stand Up
Date: 02/06/14
Time: 10am to 1pm
Venue: Youth 1st
Cost: Free – Lunch will also be provided
This interactive session will explore the causes, issues and impact of sectarianism in Scotland. It will focus on providing participants with the skills to run dynamic and effective anti-sectarian workshops and programmes for young people.
These training events have been designed and developed in partnership with Nil by Mouth, Scotland’s leading anti-sectarian charity, with over a decades experience in helping challenge sectarianism.
Learning Outcomes
1. Increased awareness of the causes and issues surrounding sectarianism.
2. Greater understanding of sectarianism and how it present itself in modern Scotland, including its impacts on our society.
3. Increased confidence to deliver quality youth work on sectarian issues.
4. Increased knowledge of resources available and examples of best practice in challenging sectarianism.
To book a place please follow link below.
Youth Achievement Awards
Date: 24/06/14
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: Youth 1st
Cost: FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.
This induction training course is aimed at youth workers or volunteers who are thinking about introducing Youth Achievement Awards to their young people. Youth Achievement Awards are activity based and are designed to encourage young people to progressively take more responsibility in organising events within their community. Attendance at the induction is a requirement before you can deliver the awards to young people. This ensures that the Awards are completed to the standard that the awarding body, ASDAN require.
There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 9th June 2014.
YDance are delivering CPD Training Days for secondary school teachers this June at a venue in Glasgow covering Dance for Core PE, National 4 PE (Dance) and National 5 PE (Dance).
DATES & COSTS
Dance for Core PE (S1 to S3)
2 June 2014
9.30am to 4pm
£70 per person
National 4 PE (Dance)
3 June 2014
9.30am to 12.30pm
£45
National 5 PE (Dance)
3 June 2014
1.30am to 4.30pm
£45 per person
DISCOUNTS
Discounts are available for those who book more than one CPD Training Day with YDance. For the full range of sessions please visit www.ydance.org.
BOOKINGS
All enquiries and bookings can be emailed to cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712
Due to the success of our Commonwealth Games CPD in 2013 we have decided to add an extra date – Tuesday 29 April 2014.
This CPD Training Day is open to nursery, primary and secondary school teachers and is designed to provide you with a fun and creative session to adapt for your own classroom.
Explore three different aspects of the Commonwealth Games through dance:
– Cultures & Traditions
– Ready, Set, Go! (creative dance tasks)
– Learn the Motto, Get Inspired!
Bookings
If you have any questions and/or you’d like to book a place on this CPD Training day please email cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712. We’re more than happy to help with any queries and we also offer a discount to those who book more than one CPD Training Day with YDance – please visit www.ydance.org for more available dates.
When: 29 April 2014
Where: Glasgow
Cost: £70 per person (inc VAT)
Saturday 26 April (9.00 – 5.00 pm)
A one-day event for teachers of history and literature in Scottish secondary schools exploring the multiple ways in which Scotland has been visualized and represented through cartography, history, and literature. There will be presentations on current projects that can be used to enhance the teaching of Scotland’s rich historical and literary past; and a round table workshop session to explore the potential of future collaborations, with displays of projects, resources, and publications. Speakers include history and literature teachers from universities and schools, National Library of Scotland on historical mapping, National Trust for Scotland on Bannockburn and many more. The event is fully catered and attendance is free thanks to funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, but registration is needed via Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/mappingthenationNMS.
Active Fife are committed to providing opportunities for sports coaches and physical activity leaders as well as potential leaders and coaches to develop their ability to lead sessions for a variety of people.
Active Fife work in close partnership with a range of external organisations to ensure they are able to support and develop coaches at all levels.
The Active Fife Training Brochure below offers a wide range of courses for experienced coaches and volunteers wishing to assist at local clubs, or those looking to start coaching with little or no experience. Many of the courses are also applicable for teachers, parents, senior pupils, coaches youth workers and uniformed group leaders.
For further information please contact
Sports Development on 01383 602393 or
SportsDevelopment.Enquiries@fife.gov.uk
For some of us maths is not our favourite subject, we don’t find Compare Bears and plastic sorting sets particularly motivational! In this workshop Rob, will look at innovative tools for making learning Maths stimulating and achievable for children and young people, improving numeracy in and outside of the classroom. With examples of games, puzzles, curiosities and mathematical “magic”, these workshops are about enriching teachers’ own view of maths, as well as offering numerous ideas that can be transferred straight to the classroom. Rob will also address some strategies for getting parents on board, including tips on maths activities that parents can incorporate into their busy lives.
Discounts available:
Discounted rate: non-member individuals and small organisations (incl early bird discount) £81.00
Discounted rate: member statutory and large voluntary organisations (incl early bird discount) £81.00
Discounted rate: member individuals and small organisations (incl early bird discount) £68.00
About Rob Eastaway – Rob has written and co-authored 11 books, including the bestselling two part book collection Maths for Mums and Dads. He is the Director of Maths Inspiration, a national programme of theatre-based lecture shows for older teenagers. He regularly appears on BBC radio to comment on topical issues related to maths and maths education. He is a former President of the Mathematical Association and has a degree in Engineering and Management Science from the University of Cambridge. He has three young children.
Who should attend: . This event is for teaching staff, early years practitioners, and others involved in education children and young people; as well as parents and carers.
Blue Block Studio
Development of Blue Block Studio, our innovative programme of creative play and storytelling for babies and young children, which will be visiting 10 communities across Scotland as part of the Culture 2014 programme celebrating the Commonwealth Games, is well under way! We’re very excited that some venues are now on sale and others will be joining them very soon.
Blue Block Studio is a space specially designed for babies under 24 months. It is a creative place for babies and their adults to listen, to explore, to build, to watch, to lie down, to look and to touch. See www.starcatchers.org.uk/things-to-do/blue-block-studio to check which community we’ll be visiting near you!
Performances of Yellow Valley, the musical-storytelling performance created for children aged 2-4 years which will accompany Blue Block Studio, are also on sale, and again more will be added over the coming weeks. See www.starcatchers.org.uk/things-to-do/yellow-valley for more details and venues.
A Small Story
Dates for the Scottish tour of ‘a small story/ eine kleine gesichte’ our co-production with Berlin-based Theater o.N, are now on our website at www.starcatchers.org.uk/things-to-do/small-storyeine-kleine-geschichte-scotland with most venues now available to book!
The show is for children aged 2 and over and is all about the small stories which make up big stories life – love, marriage, babies, friendships, everything! It has been made by Andy Manley and Ania Michaelis with design by Fred Pommerehn and music by Danny Krass.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see this fabulous international performance!
Our Creative Skills Programme is in full swing! Early years practitioners in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Fife, Inverclyde and South Lanarkshire took part in a What is Creativity? session with Heather at the start of the year and have begun practical sessions delivered by Early Years artists. Sessions have been well attended with early years practitioners from a variety of settings, and early feedback is positive with a high percentage of participants having already started using skills and techniques they’ve learned in the sessions in their own practice.
The HNC Childcare students at Glasgow Kelvin College and Dumfries and Galloway College also continued their training, with music sessions led by Greg Sinclair. The students seem to have carried the same enthusiasm from last year’s sessions into the new year – long may it continue!
Expecting Something
We’re more than halfway through our second block of Expecting Something, our project with the Family Nurse Partnership Edinburgh and Lothians. In this block lead artist Sacha Kyle has been looking at the concept of there social and connected mother and baby, and our young mothers, babies and mothers-to-be, have been enjoying relaxing music and movement with various visiting artists. Our mums, their partners, friends or family are also looking forward to the last couple of sessions in this block, where we’ll be going on trips to Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and Edinburgh Zoo! All together now “We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo, How about you, you, you…”
For more information on everything that Expecting Something have been up to see Sacha’s blog at http://expectingsomething.wordpress.com.
Nickum
We’re getting closer and closer to the culmination of our Nickum project, in conjunction with the RSNO, and nursery and family centre venues in Aberdeen are now confirmed for the mini-tour of the work-in-progress Hup. Abi and Hazel, our lead artists, along with musicians Liz Lloyd and Andrew Huggan have only had one week of intensive rehearsals but already Hup is coming together and enthralled the 0-24 month audiences who saw shadings at Out of the Blue, Leith and Ashgrove Family Centre, Aberdeen.
To read all about Nickum and Hup see Hazel and Abi’s blog at http://nickumaberdeen.wordpress.com
What’s on at Youth 1st
April 2014
Introduction to Fundraising (for youth workers and volunteers)
Date: 17/04/14
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: Auchmuty Learning Centre
Cost: FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.
This practical course will provide participants with an introduction to fundraising. It will help you to understand the different types of funding available,
make sense of the jargon and build your confidence in applying for funding.
There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registrations is 3rd April 2014.
Children’s Rights (for youth workers and volunteers)
Date: 24/04/14
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: Youth 1st
Cost: FREE for Youth 1st member groups and voluntary youth organisations. £15 per person for all others.
This training session will give an overview of children’s rights and provide a greater understanding of working with children using a rights based approach.
There are STILL PLACES AVAILABLE on this workshop. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment. Deadline for registration is 7th April 2014.
