Your comments are really helpful to us in planning the next year’s resources. Please can you help by taking a few minutes to fill in this quick survey?
To say thank you, if you can respond by the end of October we’ll enter your email in a draw for a Scottish Poetry Library goodies bag.
Primary and Secondary opportunities for the forthcoming academic year
Examples of CPD events we have run in the past –
Unlocking Shakespeare
Drama and Literacy
Directors Masterclass delivered by Dundee Rep’s Artistic Director
Inclusive Drama
Scottish Contemporary Theatre
Technical Theatre (effective use of lights and sound)
Physical Theatre
We are happy to deliver CPD’s to a cluster in situ, equally, I would be keen to discuss ideas from any teachers/artists as to what would be useful for them.
Gemma Nicol
Education, Skills and Training Manager
Dundee Rep Theatre
Creative Learning: 01382 342 660Box Office: 01382 223 530
The first of the 2012/13 Creative Conversations will be on Monday 29th October at 4 for 4.30 till 5.30 with wine and canapes afterwards (venue to follow with confirmation of attendance). Our first Creative Catalyst this session is Frank Crawford.
Frank is a former Chief Inspector (HMIe), forward thinker, innovator and enthusiastic biker. He has been centrally involved in the development of Scottish education and remains at the forefront of thinking. Frank will take a creative approach, sketching out ideas about meeting the demands of external evaluation, handling inspections, what self evaluation should really be and how we need to think about change and innovation. Frank is in great demand internationally so this is a great chance to catch up with him here in Edinburgh.
As with all previous Creative Conversations, David Cameron will facilitate the discussion and you are invited to continue the conversations afterwards with Frank, David and colleagues over wine and canapes!
This will be a popular Creative Conversation – please get back to me directly if you would like to attend and I’ll send full venue details and confirmation of your place next week.
I look forward to seeing you on the 29th.
Linda
Linda Lees
Arts and Learning Manager
City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families
Waverley Court Business Centre 1/2
4 East Market Street
Edinburgh
EH8 8BG
Tel: 0131 469 3956
Fax: 0131 529 6212
Email: linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk
This week Education Scotland launched their Sound context which includes learning journeys from early to fourth level. The context builds the storyline through our ability to make sound, sound as a tool of communication, for example through talk or by using music to convey a message. It progresses on to sound as a tool of communication at a distance and our ability to manipulate sound.
The progression begins with What’s that sound? for early level, an exploration of sound sciences and technologies through constructive play. Make the Sound provides further opportunity for enquiry-based learning, and hands-on sciences and technologies in the context of sound.
How animals use sound, sound applications and communicating through sound are three learning journeys for second level, to illustrate breadth and application, and the basis for progression to Engineering Sound at fourth level, developed in conjunction with SSERC.
Education Scotland’s new-look Schools Global Footprint Calculator is now live. This key online resource has had a significant refresh with many improvements made to the calculator to make it even easier to use. In addition to providing an exciting real life context for delivering the experiences and outcomes, the resource greatly supports Eco-Schools activities and provides learners with skills for learning, life and work as Scotland move towards a low-carbon future.
Education Scotland, in partnership with SQA, has published a resource to support the making of good assessment decisions. The resource consists of a ‘Wall’ poster and a ‘Desk’ poster.
The posters illustrate the stages of quality assurance when making assessment decisions. Assessment 3-18 must be valid, reliable, fair and manageable for all involved and must be consistently applied for all learners in all centres.
The posters can be used by local authorities, schools, colleges and other stakeholders to support the development of moderation/verification practices and as a platform for discussion.
Further support materials to exemplify these resources are in development and will be available by the end of the year.
Education Scotland has created a new resource on Political Literacy, for education practitioners working with community and school audiences. It provides information, materials, learning approaches, and links to many organisations relevant to democratic life in Scotland. Its coverage includes politics in daily life, a timeline of the development of the Scottish Parliament, and civil rights.
This event is FREE for teachers and creative and cultural practitioners within Fife.
This event has been developed to:
The Programme is in development and will be published soon but advance bookings are now being taken by contacting cultural.partnerships@fife.gov.uk or phoning 01592 583255. Please note places are limited.
Additionally, the FCLN will be compiling a magazine which will complement this event, showcasing the varied creative learning experiences already happening across Fife.
If so, please complete the attached Creative Learning Proforma and return it to heather.gibson@fife.gov.uk by Tuesday 2 October 2012 by 5pm at the very latest, for inclusion in the magazine.
National Museum of Scotland:
Dinosaur Discovery
Levels 1 & 2 (P2–P7)
You’ve been sent a large package from the other side of the world: can you piece together the clues to reveal which dinosaur is inside?
www.nms.ac.uk/schools
Free CPD session: Askasaurus
Thu 11 October, 16:00–18:00
Let us help you field all those dinosaur questions in the classroom by asking the experts!
http://tinyurl.com/8feedpw
National Museum of Rural Life: Evacuees
Level 2 (P5–P7)
Experience life as an evacuee in the countryside during the dark days of war.
www.nms.ac.uk/schools
National Museum of Flight: Flying Forces
Level 2 (P4–7)
Take part in the Flying Forces Show, then study real flying machines before making your own things that fly.
www.nms.ac.uk/schools
This exciting exhibition and workshops run at National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh until 28th October .
Explore the story of Scottish cinema-going over the past 120 years, and find out more about the celluloid portrayal of Scotland – from the silents to the present day – through the art of the original film poster, cinema advertising, and popular film magazines.
A century of Scots and Scotland on screen will be presented through a range of fascinating film footage from the Scottish Screen Archive and elsewhere – from the earliest representation of Scottishness on screen in the ‘Execution of Mary Queen of Scots’ (1895), through the depiction of Scottish life in documentary film-making, to the current explosion of award-winning films made in Scotland and by Scots.
NLS offer a FREE Cinema in the Past interactive workshop to guide pupils through the Scotland at the Movies exhibition to find out about the earliest films shown in Scotland and how Scotland has been portrayed on the big screen. Experiences: SOC 2-01a; SOC 2-02a; SOC 2-04a
Workshops are in the mornings of 26th & 27 September & 25 October and the exhibition is open Monday – Friday from 10am, until 28th October – contact Beverly Casebow to book, 0131 623 3745.
Filmhouse Cinema can also support a visit to the exhibition with film screenings, workshops and cinema tours to provide a full and very fun overview of the history of cinema; from the early years, through the golden era of cinema-going to the present day. These activities are available year-round at Filmhouse.
This supports teachers working on moving image projects and particularly for P6 and P7 classes working with Joyning The Learning: The VIB (Very Important Bear). To arrange activity at Filmhouse, plesae contact Nicola Kettlewood, 0131 228 6382, nicola.kettlewood@cmi-scotland.co.uk
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