Category Archives: Secondary schools

CPD, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools, Technologies

Association for Media Education in Scotland

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CPD- upper primary and secondary

Places still available

This day school for upper primary and secondary teachers and FE lecturers will screen Hugo 3D atCineworld Edinburgh. Lunch and afternoon sessions will take place at the nearby Haymarket Premier Inn Touchbase.
Dr Pasquale Iannone of Edinburgh University, regular contributor to Radio 4’s The Film Programme and Radio Scotland’s Movie Café, will talk about the place of George Méliès’ and 3D in movie history.There will also be presentations showing how the film and source book can be used as a stimulus for teaching and learning in the CfE as well as SQA NQs. All files used during the day will be provided in digital format

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Health and Wellbeing, News, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Art in the Windows

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Children’s photography exhibition a resounding success!

The winning photographs in the Art in the Windows project have been  unveiled to the public in Cupar.

Pupils from the four primary and secondary schools in Cupar worked with a professional photographer on the ‘Art in the Windows’ project for two months, photographing themselves getting active around the town to inspire Cupar residents to get moving.

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Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Learning, Opportunities, Primary schools, resources, Secondary schools

New Resource – Fife Contemporary Art & Craft

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Secondary schools are receiving a fantastic new resource today produced by Fife Contemporary Art & Craft .

Placement – Ceramic Connections: Wales & Scotland is aimed at Third/Fourth Level within Curriculum for Excellence, and particularly Art and Design and has many cross curricular links.  

Click here for more info or alternatively download the pack :  Placement Education Pack (Secondary)

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft also produced education packs for primary and secondary schools in 2011 which relate to a project they were involved with at that time; ‘100 Buttercups‘.  click here for more info 

As the title suggests, this is an artist’s book containing 100 drawings of 100 buttercups, all done by East Neuk artist Laurie Clark. This resource should be available within all schools or you can download it here.

100 Buttercups Education Pack (Primary) May 2011 

100 Buttercups Education Pack (Secondary) Nov 2011 

For more info, contact FCA&C  on 01334 474610.

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

Glow e-portfolio solution – success in Fife

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On Friday 23 March representatives from Glenrothes High School presented at an Education Scotland conference on Learner Voice at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. Three S1 pupils, accompanied by Mr Hunter, Depute Headteacher, were asked to highlight the good practice within the school in relation to the development of e-portfolios.

Find out more on the Glow Scotland blog.

CPD, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Events, Learning, Literacy and English, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Edinburgh Book Festival

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The Edinburgh Book Festival schools programme is now available and will be posted to schools this week, 

The closing date for RBS Transport Fund Applications is 25th May 2012.

Edinburgh Book Festival schools programme available now

Access the programme to see the fantastic learning and CPD opportunities available!

Book online here from Mon 23 April:

 

 

CPD, Education Scotland, Learning, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Education Scotland- NEW!

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A new series of briefings designed to provide practitioners with information and advice to support their implementation of Curriculum for Excellence.

CfE Briefings 1 (19 April 2012)

This Briefing raises some key issues which secondary schools should be considering as they plan to develop their provision for the broad general education at the S1 to S3 stages.

Creative practitioners, Learning, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Wee Stories- A Dream on Midsummer’s Night

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A version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Touring to Fife schools Monday 24 – Thursday 27 September 2012

If you go down to the woods tonight, you’re in for a big surprise!

The course of true love never did run smooth: a strict father and his headstrong daughter; star-crossed lovers and quarrelling fairies; mischievous imps, supernatural spells and people in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wee Stories’ re-telling of Shakespeare’s fabulous fairy-tale will be an entertaining, inventive and delightfully confusing experience for anyone aged 10+

With this slimmed-down, but not dumbed-down version of the play, we aim to inspire young people in schools with the power and the passion of the work of William Shakespeare.  The piece will enrich learning by bringing professional theatre into school, inspiring children to express their own creativity, and helping them to understand how a classic text can be adapted to speak to a contemporary audience.

‘Wee Stories have earned a reputation not only as the best children’s theatre company in Scotland, but also as one of the very best companies in any genre.’  Daily Telegraph

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For further information or to book a performance, please contact Verity Leigh, Producer for Wee Stories: info@weestoriestheatre.org or 0131 221 0606.

Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, Fife Earth, Global Citizenship, Marks on a Landscape, News, Primary schools, resources, Secondary schools, Studying Scotland

Resources: cultural identity and global citizenship

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A key starting point for global citizenship education is a richer understanding of your own culture. Here in Scotland there are great new resources, challenges and projects which will facilitate learning about this country and what it means to be a Scot.

Studying Scotland
Marks on the Landscape
‘Great Tapestry of Scotland’ project

Click here for more info from Education Scotland