The Highland Council reports that pupils from seven Highland primary schools are meeting at Eden Court, Inverness this week to view the results of their documentary film making. Over the last year The Highland Council’s, Education Culture and Sport Service ran a cross curricular initiative for pupils and teachers. They had the opportunity to work with professional film makers from arts company Wildbird, to learn the skills and techniques involved in creating a documentary for video.
The pupils worked intensively to develop their own documentary videos and were involved in every stage of the creative process, from: selecting the subject and locations; creating story boards and scripts; designing interview questions; conducting interviews; operating the technical equipment such as cameras, lighting and sound; selecting appropriate music; and making animations and editing the work.
The National Galleries of Scotland’s new Programme for Schools 2011-12 is now available on the NGS website. The NGS have an amazing collection of art, not only from Scotland but from all over the world. The collection is housed in three galleries in Edinburgh. For more information visit the NGS website http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education.
National Galleries of Scotland and Tate are delighted to announce the creation of an innovative Research Partnership bringing together the two museums with a Consortium comprising the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art and the Institute of Education, University of London. The Partnership is being established for a period of five years to deliver an ambitious and far-reaching programme of research into the ARTIST ROOMS Collection and its use as a shared national resource.
This unique Partnership will also draw on the expertise of Learning and Teaching Scotland as an Associate Partner who will provide advice, share knowledge and facilitate connections specifically in relation to education in Scotland. To see the full ARTIST ROOMS collection please visit www.tate.org.uk/artistrooms and www.nationalgalleries.org/artistrooms. To find out more information about ARTIST ROOMS On Tour please visit www.artfund.org/artistrooms.
East Ayrshire Council reports that 50 pupils from schools across East Ayrshire recently had the chance to try their hands at traditional building skills at Dumfries House, one of Britain’s most beautiful stately homes, near Auchinleck. Historic Scotland’s stonemasons, carpenters, slaters, lead workers and brickworkers led activity days where youngsters got expert tuition in traditional building skills.
Primary 6 and 7 pupils from Hillhead, Newmilns and Barshare primary schools and S1 youngsters from Cumnock and Auchinleck Academies attended the hands-on sessions with the trained craftsmen. The young people were also taken on a tour of the 2,000-acre estate by Bill Russell of Dumfries House. Historic Scotland’s Innes Drummond then led groups on visits to the ‘bothy’ in the grounds of the 18th century stately home.
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