Category Archives: Learning

Finding out about Glow at The Scottish Learning Festival

Glow is changing, see the new solution

A key priority of Curriculum for Excellence is to improve the life chances for all of Scotland’s children and young people, through improving attainment and raising ambition. Fundamental to this is encouraging and nurturing creativity, to improve the self-esteem, motivation and achievement of our learners.

Creativity can mean different things to different people. For some it means being imaginative or inventive, taking risks or challenging convention. For others it is about original thinking or producing something new.

As CfE is being implemented across Scotland, practitioners are developing their creative teaching and learning as well as nurturing creative skills in learners.

The Scottish Learning Festival 2012 offers practitioners opportunities to learn more about the importance of creative skills for themselves and for their learners.

Why not come along to one of the Glow seminars at this years’ festival

Code: K2E
Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM Education
Seminar Date: 19 September 2012 @ 16:15
Code: L2F
Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft & RM Education
Seminar Date: 20 September 2012 @ 09:30

Code: D2I
Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM Education
Seminar Date: 20 September 2012 @ 13:15

Representatives from Education Scotland, RM Education and Microsoft will take you on a tour of the evolving Glow solution. You will see the new Glow Launchpad, RM Unify, which will give users access to Office365 for education, RM Books along with other popular application for the education community. This launchpad to the cloud will allow you to tailor the apps you see and use in daily learning and teaching.

Find out more on the SLF site here

National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012 #slf12

The National Creative Learning Network (NCLN) is a community of practice which has a leadership role in championing and advocating creativity in both formal and informal learning contexts. The Network is well represented at this year’s SLF, with members from local authorities across Scotland leading workshops and seminars throughout the two days of the festival.
Seminar Programme: Find out about the benefits of being involved in a Creative Learning Network at Fife’s CLN Showcase seminar. Or, find out what being creative means to Edinburgh’s young apprentices in the Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers session. Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme.
Education Showcase: The Showcase programme features demonstrations, experiments, drama and music making with NCLN contributions from a number of authorities. To view the Education Showcase programme click here.
Creative Learning Networks: The NCLN consists of the group of coordinators who lead each local authority’s Creative Learning Network. Visit the Creativity Portal to find out who your local Creative Learning Network contact is: http://bit.ly/Creative_Learning_Contacts.


Find out more about the Creative Learning Networks by watching one of the short films on the Creativity Portal: http://bit.ly/CLN_Creativity_Portal.

Scotland is Going Global!

Calling all secondary schools…NUS Scotland and partners have been working on an exciting new project to encourage more Scottish students to study abroad as part of their course. The project includes an academic year of action around study abroad opportunities.

Fife is one of three pilot areas where we hope to roll out a training module (‘Scotland’s Students are Going Global!’) in partnership with the Scottish European Educational Trust.

For more information on the project, please do not hesitate to contact Kristellys Zolondek kristellys.zolondek@nus-scotland.org.uk

Social studies

National Records of Scotland (NRS) Schools Programme – bookings open for September 2012 – March 2013

The National Records of Scotland has launched its 2012-13 programme of free workshops and Glow Meet sessions for primary and secondary schools. New topics include ‘What is the Census?’ and ‘Newhaven Families’.

Full details of the Schools Programme and the booking form are available on the NRS education website.

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Glow TV

http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/

This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.

Scottish Youth Theatre- Outreach sessions

Scottish Youth Theatre are offering outreach Storytelling Sessions during weekends of 10 September – 31 October 2012 for children aged 7 and under.
 
Community Groups etc. can hire them in for £150 per one hour sessions (maximum audience 40 people).

 

Scottish Youth Theatre
The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF

t: 0141 552 3988
e: info@scottishyouththeatre.org