Category Archives: Opportunities

Youth Music Theatre (UK) Auditions!

Youth Music Theatre (UK) will be touring the country this January and February searching for talented young performers and musicians, aged 11-21. We invite all dancers, singers and/or actors to come along to an audition and take part in one of our group workshops. No need to prepare anything!

Our musicals are fully residential and take place around the UK for two weeks over the summer holidays. You can also gain a Grade 8 Trinity Guildhall Certificate in Musical Theatre by taking part (Grade 8 is the highest grade, equivalent to A* at A-level).

Audition for what?

Kick-start your career in performing arts and audition to perform in musicals including Great Expectations, The Salsa Sisters, Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music, the Dark Tower and a feature film, The Vanishing Place. Read more online

About your YMT audition
Auditions are workshop based and last around 2.5 hours. They are good fun and led by a team of industry professionals.
We run around three workshop sessions over an audition day (depending on the city) slots are 9:30am-12 noon, 12:15pm-14:45pm and 15:45pm-18:15pm.
Watch some previous years’ YMT YouTube footage from inside the audition room and see what it’s all about.
Book your audition
All you need to do now is book your audition and come along! Book your audition online or by calling us: 0844 415 4858. Workshop-auditions are £35 (inc. VAT).
If you are a musician or if you are interested in working backstage, please call the YMT office to book your audition/interview slot. Musician auditions and backstage interviews are free of charge.
We look forward to seeing you at your audition.

Good luck! YMT

National Library of Scotland Talk: ‘The Firth of Forth: An environmental history’

Professor T C Smout presents a captivating exploration of the Firth of Forth, showing how man has interacted with the environment over thousands of years. How have humans affected the wildlife? Why has pollution been easier to control than over-fishing? And what were the consequences of cleaning-up? Christopher Smout is Historiographer Royal in Scotland and Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews.

29 January
18.00
Free.

Book online or phone 0131 623 3734

Paper Creativity Challenge – Ernest, 15 January 2013, 11 am

Now it is your chance to Glow Meet with Catherine Rayner as she reads her book ‘Ernest’. During this session you will have the opportunity to read and explore the story of Ernest, a rather large moose, with early years pupils and then Catherine will work with older children and demonstrate to them how to illustrate texts. Ideally learners should have paper and paint so that they can also try the techniques.

Find out more here (glow password required)

StAnza Poetry Festival launch-St Andrews

Eleanor Livingstone, the Director of StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, introduces the programme for 2013, with poems and music from special guests. StAnza will take place in St Andrews from 6-10 March 2013 featuring more than 60 poets, including Liz Lochhead, Robin Robertson, Mark Doty, Gillian Clarke and John Hegley. Admission to the launch is free, but advance booking advised via NLS.

30 January
18.00
Free.

Book online or phone 0131 623 3734

Study in the USA- S5 pupils

 

The Sutton Trust is inviting applications for its innovative ‘US Programme‘, which gives bright state school students a taster experience of what undergraduate study at an American university offers. The programme completed a successful pilot year in 2011/12, and the Trust is now expanding the programme.

Visit Education Scotland’s Global Citizenship blog for more info

Tesco Charity Community Awards (UK)

The Tesco Charity Community Awards for grants for children’s welfare and/or children’s educations (including special needs schools) will re-open for applications on the 1st December 2012.

Through the Awards, one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000 are available to local projects that support children and their education and welfare.

Click here for more info

Assessing progress and achievement professional learning resources

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Education Scotland has recently published Professional Learning Resources on assessing progress and achievement designed to support quality assurance and moderation activities.

The resources are a work-in-progress and draw on emerging practice from practitioners from 3-15. We would very much like to hear what you think about what has been produced so far. Your feedback will help inform on-going work on annotated exemplification of achievement of levels in each of the curriculum areas to be shared through NAR.

Click here for more info

The teaching of history, a model for collaboration

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is hosting an event, ‘History: A Model for Collaboration’, on 2 February 2013 to enable representatives of all the groups who are deeply committed to the teaching and learning of history to get to know each other better, to forge links and to discuss in practical terms what a History Learning Community in Scotland could be.

Find out more on the RSE website.