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Special Delivery: The William Wallace Letters
The National Records of Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Parliament, is mounting an exhibition in the Parliament from Wednesday 15 August to Saturday 8 September 2012 featuring two surviving original documents with a direct link to William Wallace. Many visitors to the exhibition are unlikely to know much about this turbulent period of Scottish history so primary and secondary pupils are invited to provide text, artwork or short films to help tell the story in a modern way.
Contributions for the exhibition must be submitted to the Scottish Parliament Education Service by Friday 15 June. Full details about this and the Education
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Programme during the exhibition are available on the Scottish Parliament website (www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace).
Apps Explained by Common Craft
What it teaches
Within the last few years, applications or “apps” have gone from being big software programs on computers to small and downloadable apps on mobile devices. This video explains what caused this evolution and how it is impacting our lives today.
Scottish Book Trust
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.
Embedding Creativity Across Learning
Creativity and You! Embedding Creativity Across Learning – May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm
The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.
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CPD – Early Years
Learning about Scotland in the Early Years, Saturday 19 May, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
The study of Scotland is right at the heart of Curriculum for Excellence. This conference will provide an opportunity to develop practitioners’ understanding of the renewed emphasis on learning about Scotland and how we can enrich the learning experience for our youngest children.
Keynote speakers:
• Liz Niven – an award-winning poet who writes in English and Scots
• Juliet Robertson – one of Scotland’s leading education consultants, specialising in learning and play outdoors
• Dr Donald Smith – Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, as well as a novelist, poet, playwright and storyteller.
Games Legacy activities across Scotland – interactive map
Remember to register your school’s activities…so far only three Fife Schools are on the map!
Creative Conversation 5
with David Cameron, Ollie Bray and Laurie O’Donnell
Creative Conversations are a series of 7 events, responding to Education and the Arts, Culture and Creativity: an Action Plan.
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Scottish Biodiversity Week 19 – 27 May 2012
This year’s theme is ….”Biodiversity is Life – Biodiversity is Our Life”.
A whole week to celebrate the variety of life on planet earth, and its importance to our lives.
National Poetry Day 2012
National Poetry Day is Thursday 4 October 2012, and the theme is ‘stars’.
During National Poetry Day, people all over the UK take part in a celebration of great poetry.
Each year there’s a theme – 2011 was ‘games’, 2010 was ‘home’ – and this year we’ll be exploring starry poems, from the night sky to fame’s spotlight. There’ll be stars on our poem postcards, dazzlingly starry posters to download and print, and shining ideas for teaching and activities.
From early August 2012, you’ll find the poems, teachers’ notes and posters right here. www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk
