A new online resource that brings together a diverse collection of traditional songs and music from across Scotland. Click here to visit the site.
You can learn about traditional songs and music, understand themes in Scottish music and find out more about Scotland’s instruments, like the bagpipes and the clarsach.
There’s a short introduction to each song or tune, along with song lyrics and the musical notation for almost every tune.
The strange and fantastical stories of Scotland have inspired writers, artists and poets for centuries. Scotland’s Stories website aims to inspire children and young learners to explore this rich vein of literary and cultural heritage.
It provides a variety of beautifully illustrated classic Scottish tales, with background information, transcripts of all stories as well as fantastic audio and video versions of the stories as told by some of Scotland’s finest storytellers.
Browse the variety of classic tales suitable for all ages at the Scotland’s Stories website.
A Scottish Wave of Change is a Scottish-wide project about the future, and about stories and change.
The national story competition organised by A Scottish Wave of Change in association with the Sunday Herald invites people from all across Scotland to respond to the question – what values should shape the future Scotland?
To do this we invite people to submit a work of fiction –whether short story, poem, song or other short writing form, of up to 2,500 words in English, Scots or Gaelic.
Your piece should be set in the Scotland of the near-future – and we leave it to your imagination and creativity how you interpret this.
The best contributors will feature in a book published in spring 2011 and receive a publishing fee. Short-listed stories will be featured on this website.
Download the competition details and rules here. [Download pdf]
Please send your stories and comments to story@imaginingscotland.com
Close of competition – January 31st 2011
A number of Scottish local authorities have been praised for using innovative teaching methods – despite their schools being closed.
Aberdeenshire Council has arranged a number of learning activities through GLOW – the schools intranet – and West Lothian has also posted a wide range of work for pupils.
Click here for more info.
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