Monthly Archives: May 2013

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Enspire – pupil led festival of ideas

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‘Enspire’ is an exciting new festival taking place on 9 June run entirely by young people in St Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock. Inspired by the world famous TED Talks a team of S4 pupils from St. Joseph’s Academy in Kilmarnock have organised their own home-grown festival of ideas: Enspire.

Enspire is being designed and curated by an S4 Enterprise class who have established an events business called ID Launch. They have been working towards this all year. The purpose of Enspire is simple: to harness energy, creativity and ideas to make a difference by thinking differently. The festival is based around three powerful words: reinvention, inspiration and transformation. All presentations will take as their starting point the themes of reinvention, inspiration or transformation. The festival also features bands, comedy, entertainment and great local food cooked by their pop-up restaurant.

The festival is open to anyone to attend.  Please contact St. Joseph’s Academy School Office on 01563 526144 for more information.

Languages and Literacy, Music, Sciences, Social Studies

Working in the Music Business, Tony Robinson and Biodiversity – Glow Meets

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Look, Capture, Create – B is for Biodiversity and Beauty, 4 June http://bit.ly/14RG47G

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2013/05/27/look-capture-create/

During week 3 of the ‘Look, capture, create’ interdisciplinary learning experience we will be joined by a scientist/mathematician from Dundee University live in the Dundee Botanic Gardens to learn more about the importance of Scottish Biodiversity and how we can do simple things to help nature survive and grow. We will look in particular at the types and purposes of the beautiful patterns nature creates.
Find out more about this interdisciplinary learning experience below and visit the Look, Capture, Create Glow group here: http://bit.ly/153Zoha

Working in the Music Business, 5 June 2.00 pm http://bit.ly/12hGHXr

Yes World of Work Wednesdays is back again!  This event will give you a great insight into the real world of the music industry. The UK music business employs 150,000 people and is worth £3.5billion to the UK economy. We’ve brought together experts from all aspects of the industry including a manager, a singer, a record producer and a marketing manager.

Authors Live – Tony Robinson, 6 June 11.00 am http://bit.ly/Zv1tBk

Authors Live is stepping back in time with renowned popular historian, actor and author, Tony Robinson, to discover the strange secrets hidden in our Weird World of Wonders. Join us as we march through time with the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians and find out what made us Britons British. It’s history, but not as you know it!
After watching the live webstream in the morning why not join us for an interactive question and answer session with Tony Robinson at 1.30 pm http://bit.ly/13kLxyI

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.

(Glow log-in and password required).

Mathematics and Numeracy, Sciences

Look, Capture, Create – B is for Biodiversity and Beauty

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4 June http://bit.ly/14RG47G

During week 3 of the ‘Look, capture, create’ interdisciplinary learning experience we will be joined by a scientist/mathematician from Dundee University live in the Dundee Botanic Gardens to learn more about the importance of Scottish Biodiversity and how we can do simple things to help nature survive and grow. We will look in particular at the types and purposes of the beautiful patterns nature creates.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2013/05/27/look-capture-create/


Find out more about this interdisciplinary learning experience below and visit the Look, Capture, Create Glow group here: http://bit.ly/153Zoha

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.

(Glow log-in and password required).

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Places still available – Festival of Dangerous Ideas

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Tuesday  18th June

Wild Ideas – Celebrating Failure and Success (1000-1500)
West Highland College UHI, Carmichael Way, Fort William

In the first part of the day, the West Highland Way Walkers who will just have completed their 5 day walk, led by young people from West Highland College  will exhibit the dangerous ideas that grew during their journey in the  wild. In the second half of the day, Outward Bound will lead a session that will explore how they have used the research on Mindsets to develop their work with young people

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Wednesday 19th am. and pm.

Modern Assessment Tools to Match Modern Literacy Practices in These Dangerous Times College Development Network, Argyll Court, Stirling (1030-1230)

In order for pedagogy to stay aligned with this seismic shift in communication, how could the ubiquitous practice of digital photography be used as an assessment tool?

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Dangerous Assessment Conference (1300-1600)
College Development Network, Argyll Court, Stirling
Alastair Pollitt from UCLES will put forward the argument that we stop marking exam papers.

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Thursday 20 June 2013

Learning Through Gaming (1000-1600)
Dundee College, Gardyne Campus

As part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, participants at the event are encouraged be as ‘dangerous’ as possible in considering how gaming can influence pedagogy and encourage greater engagement with learning.

Speakers include Chris van der Kuyl of brightsolid, Derek Robertson of Education Scotland and David Renton of Reid Kerr College.

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Festival of Dangerous Ideas – latest programme

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Thursday 13 June 2013 – Friday 21 June 2013

http://www.scotlandscolleges.ac.uk/development-projects/fodi/festival-of-dangerous-ideas.html

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible!

It is for everyone who is passionate about education including college, university, school staff and students as well as those engaged in education throughout the creative communities.

There will be events happening throughout the week all over Scotland – co-created by people who are passionate about education.
Mathematics and Numeracy, Music

Scottish Chamber Orchestra leads Maths learning

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Orchestra visit adds up for pupils

http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/press/article/782/orchestra_visit_adds_up_for_pupils

Primary 7 pupils at Robert Owen Memorial Primary School, Lanark have spent the day with Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The full-day workshop was part of the new ‘Count me in’ interactive project run by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra which gives P6 and P7 pupils the opportunity to learn about maths whilst enjoying world class live performances from the SCO Brass players.

Designed in collaboration with maths teachers and supporting the aims of the Curriculum for Excellence, these cross-curricular workshops will take the students and their teachers through a range of maths concepts in the curriculum, using music as the theme and stimulus.

Languages and Literacy

21st Century fairytales sought to celebrate golden anniversary

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National Trust for Scotland

http://www.nts.org.uk/learn/events_writing.php

To mark the 50th anniversary of the National Trust for Scotland’s care of Craigievar Castle – the conservation charity has teamed up with the Press and Journal, Aberdeenshire Writer in Residence Deborah Leslie and the Friends of Craigievar Castle to launch the Craigievar Creative Writing competition. Entries are invited from school pupils in 2 categories P6 – P7 for Junior Category and S1 to S6 for Senior Category, and all stories must be 500 words and suitable for children under ten years of age.

The winning entry will be chosen by Aberdeenshire’s Deborah Leslie the celebrated author of children’s tales such as the ‘Fyvie Castle Witch Trials’,  and the top 2 stories will be performed by Deborah at Craigievar Castle on the 7 and 8 September at a special Family Fairytale Castle day.

To find out more information including How to Enter, Facts about Craigievar, take a virtual tour of the castle to help inspire you and the terms and conditions for entry visit http://www.nts.org.uk/learn/events_writing.php or to discuss the competition please contact Dr Alison Burke – ABurke@nts.org.uk or 0844 493 2161.

Developing the Young Workforce, Sciences, Technologies

Fuselab – creativity, science, art and engineering for 16-20 year olds

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The application process for Fuselab has been extended until this Friday 17th May 2013. Anyone aged 16-20 is eligible to apply and successful applicants will be offered a travel bursary and provided with their accommodation and meals.

More information is provided in the e-flier attached: fuselabeflier and full terms and conditions are athttp://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/fuselab. It would be great if you could circulate to your networks and encourage applications from anyone you think would benefit/enjoy it. I would be happy to answer any further questions anyone might have.

Health and Wellbeing

Look, Capture, Create – Inky Adventures, 21 May 10.00 am

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Week 2 of the Look, Capture, Create project coincides with ‘Walk to School Week’ and ‘Scottish Biodiversity week’. This Glow TV broadcast gives learners the opportunity to journey on an inky adventure with the Scottish illustrator/designer Johanna Basford to learn about her art techniques, what inspires her designs and her success commercially. Visit the Glow group here: http://bit.ly/153Zoha

http://bit.ly/17jWK5e

Community Learning and Development, Languages and Literacy

Love Literacies, Love Lifelong Learning, Love RaPAL and be published

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Research and Practice in Adult Literacies (RaPAL) are asking for short written pieces (story, poem, report) on experiences of successful teaching and learning to launch their new website (http://www.rapal.org.uk/) on 18 May 2013 to coincide with Adult Learners Week in the UK. The most rewarding pieces will be published in the RaPAL journal and top three will be invited to present at one of RaPAL’s annual conferences. Prizes include a year’s free subscription to RaPAL. No more than 1,000 words. Deadline: 31 May 2013

For more information, please contact journal@rapal.org.uk.