Education Scotland is inviting applications from secondary physics teachers for a two-week placement at CERN in November 2012. The placement has been arranged in collaboration with education and scientific staff at CERN, and is funded by the Scottish Government. We are seeking two teachers who will work together to develop material and approaches to support the teaching of physics in the sciences curriculum area.
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.
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.
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
The Jolomo Schools Painting Award sponsored by Bank of Scotland will be run for the first time in school year 2012-13. Students from the senior phase at all Scottish secondary schools are invited to take part in the inaugural schools painting award. Students are asked to paint and submit their interpretation of the Scottish landscape. The winner will receive £500, with an additional £500 going to the winning schools Art Department. The winner will also have the opportunity to be mentored by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo). More information can be found by clicking on ‘How to enter’ on the home page of The Jolomo Foundation website: www.jolomofoundation.org.
‘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
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.
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
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
Calling all secondary schools…NUS Scotland and partners have been working on an exciting new project to encourage more Scottish students to study abroad as part of their course. The project includes an academic year of action around study abroad opportunities.
Fife is one of three pilot areas where we hope to roll out a training module (‘Scotland’s Students are Going Global!’) in partnership with the Scottish European Educational Trust.
For more information on the project, please do not hesitate to contact Kristellys Zolondek kristellys.zolondek@nus-scotland.org.uk
Play Scotland is asking anyone aged between 5-18 years to complete an online survey. This survey will allow Play Scotland to find out what play is like for children and young people across the UK. They will be asking questions based on:
How often children and young people get to play.
Where they play and what they like to do when they play.
