Alness Academy team becomes Young Engineers Club of the Year 2012
http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2012/March/2012-03-19-06.htm
An all-girl team of S3 pupils from Alness Academy have now added the UK Young Engineers Club of the Year 2012 award to their Scottish Science and Engineering Club of the Year 2011 award following their success at scooping the top team prize at the “Big Bang” Science and Engineering event held at Birmingham on 15 – 17 March.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Knitting Mania
Young knitters from St Joseph’s primary in Busby who, have taken part in a project called Knitting Mania, presented their hand knitted blankets to Tracy Gilmour of Alzheimer Scotland (Argyll and Clyde) at Hawthorne Court sheltered housing complex in Clarkston recently.
Alzheimer Scotland attempting to beat the current world record for the largest hand knitted (non crochet) blanket. The current record stands at 557.34 squared metres and is held by The Ladies of Hatfield Christian Church in South Africa.
http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=423&id=3492
Sgoil a’ Bhac win FilmG Award For Gaelic
Pupils from Sgoil a’ Bhac in Lewis won the prestigious FilmG Award for Gaelic at the FilmG Awards in Glasgow on Friday 9 March.
The pupils were awarded the prize for their five-minute film, ‘Abair Sgaibh’.
Designers – a new approach to Post-16 Education
Event for headteachers – Post-16 Education: Designing the Learner Journey
21 March, Glasgow
http://designforgov.eventbrite.com/
In the coming months, the Scottish Government will make important decisions about the future of post-16 learning in Scotland and the system of training and skills support that is available to young people.
This project has been commissioned by the Scottish Government, but it makes use of techniques not traditionally employed by Government. At its heart is an approach borrowed from designers: using tools and techniques that are well tested in other fields, but used more rarely in the redesign of public services.
At this expert day on 21 March Snook, a service design and social innovation outfit in Glasgow will present their synthesis of the research conducted with students from the University of the West of Scotland, Paisley and Cardonald College. Sarah Drummond, Director of Design at Snook, will present an overview of the design process and how Snook use this to turn insight into idea.
Funding for creative ways of improving language teaching and learning
The British Academy is offering two awards of £4000 specifically for Scottish schools that want to develop creative ways of improving language teaching and learning. It could go towards helping you to work with your local primary schools, take forward business links, or develop a new course.
Wanted! Creative teachers and group workers!
Are you creative in the classroom? Do you empower creativity in your young people?
Education Scotland is looking for teachers and CLD staff who use creativity in their work to speak up and share their creative learning and teaching approaches with the rest of Scotland through a series of very short online film clips.
Creativity in its purest sense involves generating original ideas that have value and crosses ALL areas of the curriculum (not just the arts) and we are looking for examples from subjects as diverse as PE, Languages and Maths. It could be the young people learning creative skills or an approach to lesson planning that is particularly creative. What creativity might involve can be found here: http://glo.li/xGyO32
Here are the questions we would like to put to you:
• What is creativity (to you)?
• Why be creative in your teaching?
• What happens when the young learners are engaged in a creative activity?
• What did you and your young learners do that was creative?
You might explain an example of what creativity looks like in your classroom or group.
You might detail day-to-day creative approaches or else explain a specific project, topic or development.
How did this specifically benefit you and the young people?
You will be filmed by a professional film company (they really put you at your ease) who will come to you, fit around your timetable, and the whole process of setting up and filming will take less than half an hour. Ultimately we are capturing just 3 minutes of glorious quality footage from you that will be shared through the Creativity Portal. This is a great opportunity to showcase your creativity to a national audience.
The filming will be arranged to suit you some time in the next three weeks.
It takes moments to offer your experience or suggest a colleague who you think would fit the bill:
Go to: http://glo.li/z0Mi3s
Email: Stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk
Phone: 0141 282 5194
Aqualibrium Avenue – Campbeltown schools get creative with CHORD
Argyll and Bute Council announces the winner of its road naming competition. Pupils at Castlehill Primary and at Dalintober Primary each submitted names for the new road. The Campbeltown CHORD board judged the competition looking at many original and thought provoking names before selecting Aqualibrium Avenue.
In addition pupils at Dalintober Primary took part in a “What does renewable energy mean for Campbeltown?” art competition.
http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/news/2012/mar/campbeltown-schools-get-creative-chord
Glasgow Children paint the way to happiness
Children in the east end of the city have been busy being creative over the last few months on a project that has addressed what they need in their lives to be safe, healthy and happy.
The StreetsAhead project, run by the Children’s Parliament, has produced a marvellous audio and visual mural to be unveiled by the children at the launch at the City Chambers on Wednesday. The primary pupils from St Michael’s, St Anne’s and Dalmarnock, have created the colourful mural to showcase their hopes for the future and their collective wish to live in a culture of non-violence and respect in their community.
In special school workshops, the P6 and P7 youngsters have been encouraged to think about their lives and communities and the positive and negative aspects they encounter.
The results formed the basis of the mural which was designed over five days by 20 children working together from the three schools.
