Pupils from Larbert High School today, Tuesday 13th March, attended the launch of the Keys to the Castle Competition at Stirling Castle.
The Keys to the Castle Competition is organised by Historic Scotland in partnership with Springboard Scotland and is open to all secondary schools in Scotland.
http://www.swgfl.org.uk/News/E-Safety-Live-2012/Edinburgh-Workshops.
The Scottish Government and the UK Safer Internet Centre are running an E-safety live event on 22 March with a choice of 12 workshops.
One of the workshops is ‘Social Media in Schools: Opportunities and Challenges’. Hosted by Ollie Bray of Education Scotland the workshop will examine the opportunities and challenges presented to schools and school leaders regarding social media. It will include advice for schools on social media policy and ICT policy as well as curriculum progression.
The event will be of interest to teachers, e-safety leads, headteachers, organisations working with children, social workers, local authorities and trainers. For enquiries, please email esafetylive@saferinternet.org.uk.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
1pm – 6pm, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
Fife’s Cultural Consortium warmly invites you to their second Cultural Roadshow.
This FREE event offers a series of seminars, networking and funding opportunities to groups and individuals working within a cultural context in Fife’s communities.
The Roadshow includes workshops, breakout sessions and a central Marketplace: your opportunity to meet with funders and find out what is on offer. Includes Fife Council’s Funding & Monitoring Team, Leader in Fife, Fife Environmental Trust, Heritage Lottery Fund and much more.
To receive further information or to book a place on any of the Workshops or Breakout Sessions please contact the Cultural Partnerships Team, details below.
This opportunity is available in: Fife
For further information, please contact cultural.partnerships@fife.gov.uk (Cultural Partnerships Team), or call 01592 583255, or visit http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/culture. The deadline is Tuesday 27 March 2012 at 13:00.
Science Fair for student and probationer teachers
ASE Scotland is here to support you as you deliver Curriculum for Excellence, providing its members and others with regular CPD and excellent publications.
Students of other disciplines who are interested in teaching are also very welcome.
Wednesday 18th April 2012
1:30 – 3:30pm
University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building: room 1F06
www.dundee.ac.uk/general/campusmap
For further details contact:
01382 868610
Click here for full details:ASE Science Fair 18April2012
Building relationships for the future
A Discussion Event for teachers
Join Artistic Director (and former Drama Teacher) Orla O’Loughlin and Head of Traverse Learning Noëlle O’Donoghue, as they highlight how the Traverse Theatre can support schools to deliver the new curriculum and how we hope to engage with you and your pupils during our 50th anniversary in 2013. The session will feature an informal Q & A so come armed with your questions!
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If you are interested in developing ‘learner voice’ and ‘pupil participation’ within your classroom, school or local authority, there will be a national conference in Edinburgh on Friday, 23 March 2012.
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The event will feature sessions and workshops presenting successful and effective examples of developing and sustaining a pupil centred and participatory learning environment.
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With a keynote address by Tam Baillie, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, some of the main themes covered on the day will include: rights respecting schools, community partnership projects, pupil councils, learner engagement with Curriculum for Excellence and peer education. The event will also provide reference to global citizenship as a theme across learning highlighting how sustainability or international education allow for inclusive and pupil driven learning experiences.
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Register for this free event today, or for further details please contact Diane Carson on 0141 282 5172 or email globalcitizens@educationscotland.gov.uk
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Are you creative in the classroom? Do you empower creativity in your young people?
Education Scotland is looking for teachers and CLD staff who use creativity in their work to speak up and share their creative learning and teaching approaches with the rest of Scotland through a series of very short online film clips.
Creativity in its purest sense involves generating original ideas that have value and crosses ALL areas of the curriculum (not just the arts) and we are looking for examples from subjects as diverse as PE, Languages and Maths. It could be the young people learning creative skills or an approach to lesson planning that is particularly creative. What creativity might involve can be found here: http://glo.li/xGyO32
Here are the questions we would like to put to you:
• What is creativity (to you)?
• Why be creative in your teaching?
• What happens when the young learners are engaged in a creative activity?
• What did you and your young learners do that was creative?
You might explain an example of what creativity looks like in your classroom or group.
You might detail day-to-day creative approaches or else explain a specific project, topic or development.
How did this specifically benefit you and the young people?
You will be filmed by a professional film company (they really put you at your ease) who will come to you, fit around your timetable, and the whole process of setting up and filming will take less than half an hour. Ultimately we are capturing just 3 minutes of glorious quality footage from you that will be shared through the Creativity Portal. This is a great opportunity to showcase your creativity to a national audience.
The filming will be arranged to suit you some time in the next three weeks.
It takes moments to offer your experience or suggest a colleague who you think would fit the bill:
Go to: http://glo.li/z0Mi3s
Email: Stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk
Phone: 0141 282 5194
In an effort to demystify and raise awareness of a Curriculum for Excellence, Donibristle has been fortunate enough to secure the services of David Cameron (currently working with Education Scotland) as a key speaker on Tuesday 20th March at 6.30pm.Light refreshments will be available. Please contact school on 01383 602412 for more information. |
The children from Burntisland Primary School won the award for their stop motion film, Granny Mac’s Meringues.
The children from Burntisland Primary School took just two months to create their stop motion film, Granny Mac’s Meringues.
The children were involved in writing the script, building the set and models, filming and recording voiceovers.
In the film, the Queen travels to Hisland Island to choose a hat from famous milliner Hettie McHattie for the Royal Wedding. On the boat on the way back to the mainland there is a mix up with the boxes and the hat goes missing.
The children were one of three groups shortlisted for the Best Film by Under 11s at the First Light Awards. They were up against films from Middlesbrough and Belfast.
The competition was judged by Danny Boyle and Sam Mendes .
Find out more http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/299963-primary-schools-animation-wins-national-film-award/
Face Britain is the UK’s largest mass collaborative art project, and involves children and young people aged 4-16 in creating self portraits. The project has been designed with schools in mind and all self portraits will celebrated in a number of exiting ways including screenings on BBC Big Screens in 21 cities around the UK which will become the official Olympic Live Sites this summer. So far over 1000 schools have signed up and submitted over 13,000 portraits.
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