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Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, News, Opportunities, resources, RME

New RMR web resource

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Testimony is Education Scotland’s new high quality resource to support learning and teaching in religious and moral education. It has been designed for use by both staff and senior phase pupils. Testimony illustrates how faith, belief and values can influence how a person acts. It includes examples of religious and non-religious standpoints to show how people from around the world and in Scotland have been influenced by faith. The material includes the personal testimonies of some well-known individuals alongside the stories of ordinary members of faith communities. It can be used to support learning within the new SQA award in Religion, Belief and Values and also supports the development of skills for learning, life and work.

Creativity, Education Scotland, resources

New Primary Modern Languages web resource

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Education Scotland has launched a new online resource, Passeport pour la Francophonie. The resource is aimed at supporting primary teachers, to provide stimulating and exciting learning experiences at second level and will develop skills of reading, writing, listening and talking. 

The online resource provides suggestions for exploring the other curricular areas such as RME or maths and numeracy through the medium of French language and culture. Practitioners can use Passeport pour la Francophonie to enhance their professional learning both in terms of their own foreign language skills and developing innovative approaches to teaching a language. Learners will find that the activities bring languages to life by travelling through five different countries of the Francophonie.  They will discover other cultures, meet children from around the world and gain an understanding and appreciation of their native language and culture

Creativity, News, resources, Secondary schools

Asthma across the curriculum

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‘Two in Every Classroom’ is a new interdisciplinary resource for secondary schools. It is an online resource produced by Asthma UK Scotland for secondary school teachers in Scotland. The resource aims to help schools use new and creative ways to embed asthma within Curriculum for Excellence while raising the profile of the most common long-term condition in schools. Use Watch Again to view the Glow Meet that was held on Monday 10 September about the resource

glow, News, Numeracy and Maths, resources, Science, Social Studies

Science, maths and geography

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Twig on Glow – free resources for Scottish schools

Twig World is an award winning online resource that brings learning to life.  Mapped to Curriculum for Excellence, Twig now offers over 800 short films and a vast library of support material for science, maths and geography.

Twig on Glow includes all content from Glow Science as well as new materials.  Glow Science will continue to be available until January 2013.

Events, Funding, Literacy and English, Opportunities, resources

Scottish Book Trust Opportunities and Resources

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Authors Live: Roald Dahl Day Celebration

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/event/authors-live-roald-dahl-day-celebration

To celebrate Roald Dahl Day (and the 30th birthday of the BFG) Scottish Book Trust is streaming a celebratory event live from the BBC on September 13th. A great way to provide a focus for the new term’s work. It’s suitable for P2-P7 – register to watch it now

Funding Available for Author Visits

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning-and-inclusion/sbt-learning-and-inclusion-projects/live-literature

Did you know Scottish Book Trust provides funding to help you bring a writer/illustrator in to help with your projects? Whether you’re a school, book group, community learning group, writers’ circle or something else entirely, you’ll find lots of information in Scottish Book Trust’s newly revamped Live Literature Funding section.

Scottish Book Trust Needs You!

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookweekscotland

Do you love books, and want to share your passion with others? Join Scottish Book Trust’s League of Extraordinary Booklovers, a team of book enthusiasts that will help others with advice and support during Book Week Scotland!

Education Scotland, resources

Education Scotland Resource Calendar – July 2012

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The events in this calendar are celebrations, awareness days and action weeks all covering topical issues relevant to schools. Each of the events includes details of websites and support materials to help plan activities for learners.  Events in July include World Population Day, Ramadan and London 2012 Olympics.

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/r/resourcecalendar/july.asp?strReferringChannel=educationscotland&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-713590-64

Curriculum for Excellence, News, Primary schools, resources, Secondary schools

New – Games context on STEM Central

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Visit  Games Context for learning on STEM Central.

In the Games Development Second Level Learning Journey learners are offered stimulating experiences and the opportunity to develop their understanding not only of the history of gaming in Scotland, but will also encourage them to explore technological developments in society, and ultimately how to design, create and market their own game.

Creative Learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, glow, Health and Wellbeing, resources, Science

Have you used Glow Science yet?

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Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology, and health and wellbeing.

All resources are free with your Glow log-in.