Category Archives: Primary schools

CPD, Creative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, Events, Marks on a Landscape, Primary schools, Secondary schools

CPD Event: Creative Learning!

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This session is aimed at primary and secondary teachers wishing to enhance their knowledge of the importance of creativity across the whole curriculum. It will introduce participants to Fife’s Creative Learning Network (CLN), a newly established group bringing together community representatives and key local and national cultural partners with education representatives.

This session will consider the importance of creativity as a higher order thinking skill and its relevance within CfE, launch Fife’s CLN glow group and introduce current creative resources from Education Scotland

4-5pm, ASDARC, Thursday 15th 2012

Book now…places going fast!

Funding, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Get Moving Fund…time is running out, apply now!

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The Cultural Partnerships Team are keen to encourage and support schools and youth organisations who wish to provide exciting experiences, opportunities and activities that bring together creativity and learning to benefit the lives of children and young people. Recognising that transport costs are a real barrier to participating in cultural opportunities we have put in place the Get Moving Fund.

The fund is open to schools and organisations to aid participation for young people in creative learning experiences. It is available to support activity taking place between now and March 31st 2012 and applications should be made using the attached form.  Funding is available to cover transport costs up to a maximum of £250.

 The planned activity should meet at least one of the following Actions from the Cultural Strategy:-

  • Action 2– Identifying the barriers to cultural participation and ways of overcoming them.
  • Action 3– Encourage communities to maximise cultural opportunities to celebrate their strengths and their heritage.
  • Action 5 – Increase access to participation in cultural activity and creative learning opportunities.

 Please note that the fund is limited and applications will be assessed on a first come first served basis.

 Should you have queries, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01592 583255

Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Primary schools

Fife Libraries World Book Week Event

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Book and Film Event

Tuesday  28th February 2012 at 10am or 7pm

Film Tickets Only £2.50 per child (Teachers & adults helpers FREE)

Film Ticket with Coach Transport to the Event £5 per child (Teachers & adults helpers still FREE!!!)

****FREE TRANSPORT AVAILABLE ****

to the first 10 schools to apply to be part of our

 Across the Generations Project

Thanks to special funding from the Creative Learning Network, these special showings also offer schools the chance to encourage families to read and share book experiences together. Our unique Across the Generations Project encourages children to invite an adult from their family to come with them to the event, helping you to encourage literacy and strengthen the bond between school and home.

To be eligible you simply need to…

Offer your children the chance to bring a parent, grandparent or other adult with them to the show,

either in the morning at 10am or in the evening at 7pm.

Submit your Booking Form and we will hold a place for each child with an additional free adult ticket allocated for each one,

you then send a letter home inviting adults to come with the class and confirm the adult numbers later. 

Just asking the adults to come makes you eligible to apply for FREE Transport!

The film ticket costs £2.50 per child but all adults are FREE and if you are among the first 10 schools to apply we can provide coach travel from schools anywhere in FIFE to the Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy completely FREE.

Questions??  Problems??

Find more details in the BOY World Book Week Event flyer or contact me, 

Maggie Gray on 01592 583204

Don’t delay – apply today!!!

 

 

Creative Learning, Creativity, Events, Opportunities, Primary schools, Science, Secondary schools

From sand dunes and robots to comedy and sport – Fife Science Festival

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Details of next month’s Fife Science Festival have been launched. For the first time in its history, Fife Science Festival has been extended to Dunfermline, with events also heading to St Andrews, Buckhaven, Burntisland, Glenrothes, Tayport and Kirkcaldy.
Funded by the Scottish Government, the Edina Trust and Podium (the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games), the festival will involve a diverse range of free events for schools and the general public.
A week-long science week will also held at Denbeath Primary School in Buckhaven with engineering insights at Adam Smith College in Glenrothes and wireless wonders at Museum of Communication at Burntisland. Secondary school pupils will also get the chance to make a prize-winning robot, while a lecture will explore what life would be like without evolution.

 

For more information, please contact Alexandra Forrest, Festivals and Events Officer, Dundee Science Centre on 01382 228800 or visit www.fifesciencefestival.org.uk

Competition, Curriculum for Excellence, glow, glow meet, Literacy and English, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Fantastic Fife!

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Two Fife children have came first place in their categories in a National writing competition!

 

A pupil from Kings Road PS in Rosyth came first in the lower primary category and a pupil from Kirkcaldy West PS came first in the upper primary category…a fantastic result for Fife!  In the secondary school category a Fife pupil from Auchmuty HS, Glenrothes was a runner up.

There were over 450 schools taking part from all across  Scotland in the Glovember writing competition and with Fife children winning two out of the three categories, we at Fife’s CLN feel they should be exceptionally proud of their achievement.

Well done Ben and Niamh!

Competition, Creative Learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

National Galleries of Scotland art competition for schools

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In 2012 the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) art competition for schools celebrates its ninth year and the NGS has welcomed a new title partner. The Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools hopes to inspire children across the country with the National Galleries of Scotland’s superb collection of artworks.

Click above for more info!

Over 30,000 children from all over Scotland have participated since 2004. An exhibition of the winning works from 2011 is on show at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from 20 January – 24 May 2012 so why not go along and check out the talent on display?

This year’s winning works will be proudly displayed at the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

There are six categories to choose from: Nursery; Lower and Upper Primary; Secondary and Special Education Schools. With clear links to Curriculum for Excellence and fabulous prizes to be won make sure not to miss the closing date of 4 May 2012.

Full details on www.nationalgalleries.org/schoolartcompetition

Creativity, Health and Wellbeing, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Fife Diversity Week 12th to 18th March

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Diversity week is an opportunity for Fife’s schools to be part of the celebration of Fife’s rich and diverse culture. Everyone can contribute to making this event a success and there are many different ways in which you can do this.

Diversity enriches our lives, consider how dull life would be if we all looked alike, thought alike, and acted alike! By learning to recognize our similarities and appreciate our differences, we can overcome prejudice and intolerance and work towards a better world.
 
If you would like to discuss any ideas you have / would like support in putting something together for diversity week, please contact:
Zahida Ramzan or Colm Wilson at: Enquiry.Equalities@fife.gov.uk 
Tel. 08451 555 555 ext 441242
 
 
 

 

 

Creative Learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Opportunities, Primary schools, Science, Secondary schools

Fife Science Festival 2012

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Here are some of the creative learning opportunities on offer to schools at this years Fife Science Festival…book your places now!!!

Friday 9th March

10am-12 noon & 12:30pm-2:30pm

Terrible Trebuchets and Menacing Mangonels!

Discover the science, technology and history behind the Medieval warfare in this fun and interactive workshop from Historic Scotland!

£2 per pupil, adults free, Booking is essential-contact Historic Scotland Education Office on 0131-668-8736 or email hslearning@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

www.historic-scotland.gov.uk

P4-P7

St Andrews Castle

The Scores

St Andrews

KY16 9AR

Monday 12th March-Friday 16th March

1:30pm-3pm

The Weird and Wonderful World of Science

At this fun and interactive school science week, children will explore science through various science experiments and activities. Members of the public have the opportunity to attend on Friday 16th march.

Free admission, non-bookable.

Primary pupils/Families

Denbeath PS

Bancraig St

Buckhaven

KY8 1JE

Tuesday 13th March

10am-3pm

Our World in Motion-Mobile Communications Workshops

Find out how easy it is to construct simple electronic circuits and how much fun it is to use them in all sorts of exciting, ingenious projects.

Free admission, booking essential. Contact Dorothy Brankin on 01506-823424

Or email dc_brankin@tiscali.co.uk to book a place/

Suitable for P4-P7.

Museum of Communication

131 High Street

Burntisland

Fife Council

KY3 9AA

Wednesday 14th March

1:30pm-6pm

Green Energy Challenge

Learn all about renewable energy and how important it is in solving our future energy needs and get the opportunity to build a wind turbine at this interactive workshop.

Free admission but booking essential. Contact Liz Allen on 01383-559117 to book your class.

Schools:P7

Whitlock Energy Collaboration Centre

Rosyth Business Park

Wood Road

Rosyth

KY11 2EA

Friday 16th March

10:30am-3:30pm

Techno Games Event

A fun interactive games workshop for secondary school pupils. Pupils work in teams to make a robot, then watch as they compete against other teams in a series of challenges. Have you got what it takes to make a prize-winning robot? Free Admission but booking essential. Contact Bill Hutchison on billhutchison@adamsmith.ac.uk to book a place.

Secondary pupils

Adam smith College

St Brycedale Campus

Brycedale Avenue

Kirkcaldy

KY1 1EX

Monday 12th March-Friday 16th March

10am-2:30pm

The Renewables Challenge

Pupils get the chance to investigate different renewable energy technologies, including wind power, solar power, hydrogen fuel cells, and more. The challenge is to build the equipment to harness the most renewable energy- and store it, if you can!

Outreach workshop. Free workshopm but booking essential. Contact Karen Ritchie at The Hydrogen Office on Karen.ritchie@the hydrogenoffice.com to book your place.

Primary Schools

Venue: various schools

Creative Learning, Opportunities, Primary schools

Community day with National Museums Scotland at Methilhill Primary and Community School

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The National Museums Scotland have been working with a Primary 6 class from Methilhill Primary and Community School on a partnership project, funded by the Robertson Trust, since last March.  The class have been researching and devising their own resources on the theme of Africa, based on the collections of the museum.  This box of museum objects, complete with teachers notes (researched by the pupils) will then be available for general borrowing in the Fife area initially and then around Scotland.

On Thursday 2nd February, the pupils are hosting a community day at their school to show off their work and on their behalf I would like to invite you along.  The day will run 2.30pm – 3.30pm at the school and will feature a show of an exhibition set up by the pupils and an African drum performance by the children.