Category Archives: Secondary schools
Festival of Politics: Get the Picture! Event at the Scottish Parliament, Saturday 25 August 2012
Following on from the success of last year’s Young People’s Day event, the Scottish Parliament is inviting young people to take over for the day at this year’s Get the Picture! event. They are looking for a wide range of groups of young people aged 16 to 25 years old from all over Scotland to come and make this event even bigger and better than ever before. They are working in partnership with the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scot to create an event to remember.
One of the themes of this year’s Festival of Politics is ‘Positive Change’. There will be creative ways to display and discuss young people’s issues as well as their ideas and innovative solutions. For more information and a booking form please email education.services@scottish.parliament.uk.
Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – registration now open!
The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website.
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.
In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.
The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.
Secondary teachers and CLD Practitioners – we need your creativity
The Scottish and Credit Qualifications Framework Partnership (SCQFP) invites teachers and those working in community learning to come up with a new title for the guide currently known as the Schools Toolkit. This competition is open to all secondary school teachers and workers in community learning settings in Scotland and the deadline for entries is Friday 29 June 2012.
Click here for more info!
Refugee Week Scotland, 18th-24th June 2012
Each year Refugee Week grows and increases in profile, making its mark on the UK’s cultural calendar. This year’s theme Spirit captures:
- Spirit of survival and the individual – the determination needed to flee persecution and rebuild your life
- Community spirit – the connections between refugees and local communities
- Scotland’s spirit – the cultural diversity of Scotland today.
Click here for more info!
Two fantastic film opportunities for young people!
What a fantastic and unique Film-Making scheme for your young people. We are looking for twenty 16-19 year olds to get involved in the Edinburgh International Film Festival and make a short film, which will be screened at the Filmhouse in August! 
Click here for more details!
ALSO…
Are you aged between 16 – 25? Could you make a sci-fi film in just a few short days? If you are up for the challenge you could get your film screened at EIFF this year!
Click here for more details
Your future in the creative industries – a guide for young people
TALK BY STEWART SVAASAND: WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
– 5.00pm – 6.00pm
– Church Hall (upstairs)
– FREE
– Age 14-21
A rare opportunity to be guided by a top professional TV and film director Stewart Svaasand. Stewart’s work includes Hollyoaks, Missing, One Last Chance being shown later tonight and Waterloo Road Reunited. Stewart will outline the challenges and opportunities in the creative industries – a not to be missed event for any young person determined to succeed in this field.
Calling all film makers!
FILM NIGHT: WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
As part of the Aberdour Festival Family Film Night on Wednesday 25th July, Aberdour Festival is hosting its very own BAFTAs – Brilliant Aberdour Film Talent Awards. Budding film makers are invited to submit short films (of around five minutes) for showing on the night. If you have a film that you would like to show, or would like to make one especially for this event, please contact Lewis Banks for details of how to enter (01383 861267 / lewis@gallery8art.co.uk).
Submissions of all types are welcome from all ages and there will be prizes for the audience’s favourites on the night. There is a special prize for the committee’s favourite film produced by anyone under 16: Channel Fife TV has offered to work with a young person as a presenter and one as a camera operator and shoot for Channel Fife a topic of their choice. Your chance to work with the professionals! Graeme Campbell, Project Director at Channel Fife TV, said, ‘Channel Fife TV is developing a web broadcast television service across Fife and is delighted to be able to support local programme making in the community by sponsoring the Aberdour Festival Film Night.’
‘We are hoping to receive films on a wide range of topics, comedy, drama or documentary, from anyone who wants to pick up their camera or mobile phone and have a go. Maybe you could be the next Quentin Tarantino, Bill Forsyth or Steven Spielberg!’
Lewis Banks
Creative Connections Fife 2012 – An Early Years Gathering
Special Delivery: The William Wallace Letters
The National Records of Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Parliament, is mounting an exhibition in the Parliament from Wednesday 15 August to Saturday 8 September 2012 featuring two surviving original documents with a direct link to William Wallace. Many visitors to the exhibition are unlikely to know much about this turbulent period of Scottish history so primary and secondary pupils are invited to provide text, artwork or short films to help tell the story in a modern way.
Contributions for the exhibition must be submitted to the Scottish Parliament Education Service by Friday 15 June. Full details about this and the Education
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Programme during the exhibition are available on the Scottish Parliament website (www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace).
