Two Zero Hero Competition
Sustrans are asking young people to design a postcard on how 20 mph could improve their street – it could be a picture, a message, a poem or even a slogan. Can you be a two-zero hero and tell us how slower speed limits might change your life? Get creative and win a holiday, bike or even a BMX stunt display!
Monthly Archives: June 2012
9 year old photographer wins award
Winning photograph to appear in charity calendar.
Ben Roper, aged 9, pupil at Yarrow Primary School, has been successful in the Rotary Young Photographer Scotland Competition 2012 with his entry, ‘Quiet Place’. The prize-giving ceremony was held yesterday evening, 28 June, in Glasgow. Ben loves the outdoors and this is reflected in his photography, especially his winning photograph of snow and trees taken in the beautiful Borders. The theme of this year’s Rotary photography competition was ‘The last days of winter’.
http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/news/article/194/local_young_photographer_wins_award
New advice and guidance published for Music and composing
These materials support Music at National 3, 4 and 5 levels. There are a range of tools available to support the monitoring and tracking of learning in instrumental teaching sessions. An additional proforma has been added to support the tracking of pupil progress in a chosen instrument. It enables the highlighting of appropriate concepts which are taught during a lesson and the skills being developed by learners.
First ever Scottish conference on Jazz Education
TAKE PART IN THE FIRST EVER SCOTTISH CONFERENCE
ON
JAZZ EDUCATION
For everyone involved in jazz education in Scotland – teachers, instrumental instructors, bandleaders, jazz musicians or organisers – the Scottish Jazz Federation (SJF) is running two one-day events with group discussions, presentations of teaching materials and expert speakers from Scotland and Europe.
Delegate one day fee – only £25
to include lunch and refreshments
Book by 29 June and pay only £20!
The conference is on:
FRIDAY 31 AUGUST
GLASGOW
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Or – the same programme repeated – on
SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
INVERNESS
The Ironworks
TO BOOK, CLICK HERE <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JAZZCONF1>
If you haven’t taken part in our online database collection survey, please do it now. It only takes a few minutes
CLICK here <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SJFJES2012> for online survey
New – Ready for 2013? Art competition with theme of preparing for emergencies
Your school can take part in this competition to create pictures for a 14-month calendar. The calendar aims to communicate the importance of preparing for emergencies at home, in the community and in the car, and the easy steps that can be taken to do so.
Learners in primary and secondary schools are invited to design a picture that relates to one of the main themes, which have been categorised into topics.
For more information visit the Ready for Emergencies competition page <http://edscot.org.uk/t/LQE-UOGC-49RSGI-BX89O-1/c.aspx> and register today. <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Poster-Competition>
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/readyforemergencies/about/artcompetition.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0
Pupil films on the big screen – anti-knife crime
Local youngsters attend premiere of anti-knife crime films
Two short films made by local young people about the consequences of knife crime have premiered at Loch Lomond Shores Sea Life cinema.
The films were part of the ‘No Knives, Better Lives’ project supported by West Dunbartonshire Council Community Safety & Anti Social Behaviour Services and its partners.
Young people, their families, and youth workers from across the area came together to share the celebrations, and the filmmakers received Oscar-style awards from Helen Turley, Head of Housing and Community Safety, in recognition of their hard work, effort and contribution to the anti-knife campaign.
A day at the Opera House
Grange Academy youngsters visited the former Opera House construction site on John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, recently to see how to apply what they had learned in the classroom to the world of work. The third year Graphic Communication class heard about the history of the Opera House and why the site was being brought back to life. Pupils were given the opportunity to view drawings which surveyors and builders used in the project.
http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndGovernment/newsarticle.aspx?p=9281
CLD meets Social Entrepreneurship Collaborative Conversations
CLD Standards Council are working with the Social Enterprise Academy to host three one day events across Scotland in late September 2012.
The events, part of the our Ideas Academy programme, will bring together small groups comprising six community learning and development practitioners and six social entrepreneurs to learn from each other’s action and experience.
Fife, Flashmobs, Secrets and Songs
Fife’s Secret Song – ‘Fife Goes Olympic’
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/06/19/fifes-secret-song-fife-goes-olympic/
A Flashmob of children from four Dunfermline primary schools performed a secret song they helped compose called ‘Fife goes Olympic’. Around 170 primary 6 &7 youngsters gave unsuspecting shoppers at the Kingsgate Shopping Centre a big surprise on Wednesday afternoon when they performed their song for the first time ahead of the Olympic Torch Relay in Dunfermline.
Scotland’s national week-long celebration of reading in 2012
Scotland will host its first ever national week-long celebration of reading in 2012 – The Year of Creative Scotland, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced yesterday.
The Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs joined author Ian Rankin and Scotland’s Makar Liz Lochhead at the Writer’s Museum in Edinburgh yesterday, to announce that Book Week Scotland will be held from Monday November 26 until Sunday December 2, 2012.
People the length and breadth of Scotland will be encouraged to engage in the first ever week-long national celebration of reading, and to participate in a range of free events to be held throughout the week.
Initiated by the Scottish Government, Book Week Scotland will be delivered on behalf of Creative Scotland by Scottish Book Trust.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/06/book-week-scotland18062012
