Category Archives: Primary schools

Creativity, Events, News, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Modern Language Screenings

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The experience of hearing another language in the cinema is an invaluable way to appreciate and enjoy another culture. From September – December 2012 Filmhouse offers primary and secondary schools a wealth of great films from France and Germany, including films from the 20th French Film Festival and Goethe Insitut. These films have all been very successful in their own countries and offer a range of funny, touching and educational stories.

Screenings are great value – either £2.60 or FREE – and many are supported by an additional teaching resource for use in the classroom.

For further details please see http://www.filmhousecinema.com/learning/schools-and-teachers/ or contact nicola.kettlewood@cmi-scotland.co.uk

To book, please contact the Filmhouse Duty Manager on 0131 228 6382.

Creativity, Learning, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools, Technologies

Finding out about Glow at The Scottish Learning Festival

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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

Events, glow meet, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Games Legacy: Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games – Mascot Glow Meet

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Thursday 20 September (1.45 pm -2.15 pm)

Join us live from the Scottish Learning Festival on 20 September and be one of the first people in Scotland to welcome the Glasgow 2014 mascot which will have been launched that morning.

There will be an opportunity to meet the mascot, see the schools premiere of his animated short film and engage with his prominent friends in a question and answer session.

Creative Learning, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Check out what’s available from Hopscotch Theatre Company

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Hopscotch present a brand new fun and educational show!  Find out the truth about Vikings, Saints, Kings and commoners, heroes and villains, Wallace and Bruce, Mary, Queen of Scots, Robert Burns, the Victorians and much, much more. 

All the history you thought you knew and lots more besides.

 SUITABLE FOR: P1 – P7    DURATION: 55 minutes     COST: £395.00

Adapted for S1 & S2
DATES: Mon 10th Sept – Fri 26th Oct 2012

Click here for more info and how to book! 

Creativity, Dance, Drama, Events, Expressive Arts, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

The Byre Theatre presents…auditions for Snow white!

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Do you love acting?

Do you love singing and dancing?

Are you aged between 10 and 21?

Would you like to be part of the biggest performance in St Andrews?

Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.

 This year’s fantastic family panto at the Byre Theatre is Snow White, written and directed by Gordon Barr, and we’re looking for talented young people to join our company and act alongside our professional cast.

Perhaps you fancy being part of “The Forest Crew” – a bunch of misfit lost boys (and girls) hiding out in the forest, always ready for mischief and determined to help our heroine, Snow White, get her happy ending.

Or maybe you’d like to be part of the all-singing, all-dancing “Mirrorettes” – a girl group full of sass, class and bursting with attitude.

If you would like to be part of the cast of this year’s spectacular Byre Theatre panto, then we’ll be holding auditions on Sunday 9th September between 2p.m. and 6 p.m. at the Byre Theatre.

 The young cast will rehearse weekly and during the October half-term before working with the professional cast from 19th to 28th November and then performing from 29th November to 30th December. (Please note this will require successful cast members to be excused from school for some rehearsals and performances)

 To sign up for an audition, contact Ashley Foster on 01334 468728 or e-mail ashley.foster@byretheatre.com

Competition, News, Opportunities, Primary schools

European animal life – competition for primary schools

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The new European Parliament office in Scotland competition for primary pupils asks them to create images to illustrate a 2013 Calendar on the theme of ‘Europe’s rich Animal Kingdom’. The competition is now open for entries to be submitted until the deadline of 9th October.

The organisers are especially keen to see artwork of some of the rarer European animals, birds and insects. The diversity of species which live in Europe provides plenty of scope for creative young people.

The artwork will be judged by a panel of MEPs and European Parliament officials, with prizes and a presentation to the winner. The winner of the competition will feature in a calendar made up of children’s drawings from all over Europe, and will also illustrate one month, along with eleven runners up, in the official EP Office in Scotland 2013 calendar. All schools entering the competition will receive a copy of the finished calendar, and a selection of the illustrations will also be exhibited at the EP Office in Edinburgh.

Good luck to all the Scottish children who take part.

CPD, Learning, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Social studies

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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.