Brewstometer – new online creativity measuring tool launched today

www.brewstometer.org.uk

Creativity is increasingly recognised as an essential higher order thinking skill for learning, life and work.

A new online creativity measuring tool, Brewstometer (www.brewstometer.org.uk), is being launched this week at SLF.

The Brewstometer introduces the principles of creativity and helps learners reflect upon and evaluate any creative experience they had recently, this could include a lesson, a workshop, a performance, a gallery visit or project.

As an online resource you can use the Brewstometer as best suited to your learning environment needs, whether it be a whole class or small groups or one-to-one. The Brewstometer has been developed by Creative Scotland and Education Scotland as part of Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan.

Meet the Artist Glow Meet – David Batchelor

24 September 14.00

http://bit.ly/1grThnQ

Turning the ordinary into something beautiful

David Batchelor is an artist, born in Dundee and now living in London who is best known for his brightly coloured sculptures using industrial materials including lightboxes from neon street signs, industrial dollies used to move heavy objects and items from everyday life such as brightly coloured plastic sunglasses and kitchen utensils.

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

(Glow log-in and password required).

Inspired? Get Writing! Creative Writing Competition 2013/2014

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/competitions-3740/inspired-get-writing-creative-writing-competition-20132014

Enjoy writing but need that little bit of inspiration and a goal to get started?

Why not enter this years Inspired? Get writing! competition? You can write in prose or poetry about anything that has inspired you from our permanent collection: drawings; paintings; prints; sculpture; photography; installation. There are five categories for school pupils and adults. Four volumes of Inspired? Get writing! have been published, featuring winners from previous years, so you can check out the standard. For full details download the rules. There is also a resource pack which you might find helpful.

There are 5 categories:

•           Under 12 years

•           12 – 14 years

•           15-18 years

•           Adults prose

•           Adults poetry

Entries should be submitted by Friday 17 January 2014.  Results of the competition will be announced by Thursday 17 April 2014.

5-18 year olds wanted to help create new national CfE website

www.BeXcellent.org.uk <http://www.bexcellent.org.uk/>

If you’re aged between 5-18, or work with young people who are, we

need you …!

• Are you an aspiring webmaster?

• Are you into art and graphic design?

• Do you love writing?

• Is film-making or photography your passion?

• Are you interested in business, marketing and managing a budget?

We are recruiting children and young people from around Scotland to

become part of a team; to work together to manage and develop a

website.

www.BeXcellent.org.uk <http://www.bexcellent.org.uk/>

is the only website available for children and young people to

inform and share ideas on Curriculum for Excellence.

The BeXcellent team will:

• Develop and refresh the website

• Provide interesting, fun and relevant content

• Produce a website designed and written by children and young

people for children and young people

A smaller group of the team will become the project leaders and will

be expected to make decisions to help steer the work.

There will be plenty of support available from staff at Children in

Scotland and opportunities to learn from experts working in the

different areas.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop and showcase your talents

and skills. We understand that some of you may want to start with a

small contribution and build up your confidence and learn.

However, you might feel ready to make a bigger commitment. Being part

of the team is voluntary and will involve some of your time.

The work will be complete by Spring 2014 and some of the team will

launch the refreshed website at a big event in Edinburgh. There will

be awards for special contributions made by team members and all team

members will receive a certificate that can be used in personal

profiles, for UCAS applications or future job applications.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Click here to download an application form

<http://www.childreninscotland.org.uk/docs/ApplicationForm.pdf>

More information

• Apply directly or through a school, youth group or club by

Wednesday 18 September 2013

• You need to be between the ages of 5 and 18

• You need to have an adult sponsor or supporter. This could be a

teacher, youth leader or family member

• You need to have consent from an adult to take part in this

project

• Children in Scotland staff will be on hand throughout the project

to support and guide you

• The new website will be launched at an event with Scottish

Government in Spring 2014 and all participants will be invited

For more information, contact Linda Young

lyoung@childreninscotland.org.uk

<mailto:lyoung@childreninscotland.org.uk>

or Lesley Warren lwarren@childreninscotland.org.uk

<mailto:lyoung@childreninscotland.org.uk>

National enterprise challenge Micro-Tyco is now open

http://micro-tyco.com/

http://www.micro-tyco-registration.com/

Entry to WildHearts’ ground-breaking national enterprise challenge Micro-Tyco is now open.  Micro-Tyco inspires our children to believe, creates compassionate global citizens and will inspire the leaders our country deserves.

Registration is at www.micro-tyco-registration.com and you can find more information on the website or contact Kezia Rudge at Kezia@wildheartsinaction.org for more details.

Show Racism the Red Card creative competition

Creative Competition 10th year Anniversary http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2013/education/august/news_tcm4813659.asp?dm_i=LQE,1SLVU,3GU5HR,6ESKF,1
Show Racism the Red Card, the UK’s premier anti-racism charity, which uses professional footballers as anti-racism role models, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their anti-racism/anti-sectarianism creative competition.

This year, as it is the 10th anniversary of the competition, they are looking at celebrating the diverse cultures and heritage that make Scotland the place it is today.

Using Scotland’s heritage as a theme, they would like you to develop a piece of creative work that gets across clear messages of anti-racism and anti-sectarianism.

The competition will be launched in mid–September so please visit the Show Racism the Red Card website for updates.

Scottish Learning Festival 2013 – less than 3 weeks to go!

Key events at this year’s SLF (or #slf13 as Twitterers will be saying)include the launch of the Creativity Across the Curriculum Aspect Review report, Creative MOTs from the Creative Scotland stand, street theatre with P6 pupils led by the ConFlux project, and a seminar exploring the role of creativity in building capacity for continuous improvement.

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/slf/?campaignkw=ScottishLearningFestival2013only3weekstogo

This year’s SLF takes place on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 September in the SECC, Glasgow. The theme is ‘Raising the Bar in Scotland – transforming lives through learning’.

We will be launching Education Scotland’s Corporate Plan 2013-16 at SLF. Sign up for a round-table discussion about how we plan to work with all our partners to make changes to education in Scotland.

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of additional activities, are available on the SLF website.  Follow all the action on social media at #SLF13.

National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools 2014

Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools 2014 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/competitions-3740/tesco-bank-art-competition-for-schools-2014

The National Galleries of Scotland invites entrants to this art competition.  Last year there were over 11,000 entries.

There are six categories, each with a different theme:

Category A Nursery: Fish

Category B Primary 1-3: Drumming Soldiers and Fluttering Fairies

Category C Primary 4-7: Amazing! I Could Do That!

Category D S1-S2: Speed

Category E Special Education Schools: Fire

Category F Group Entries: Any of the above themes

Pupils are asked to view a small selection of artworks on line. Teaching notes and lots of discussion ideas are provided with links made to Curriculum for Excellence.

Closing date: Friday 2 May 2014.

Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition

National Trust for Scotland

http://www.battleofbannockburn.com/learn/battle-of-bannockburn-short-film-competition/

As part of the programme of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, the National Trust for Scotland are launching the Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition to encourage school pupils to create new works which interpret Bannockburn from their own perspective.

For centuries the events that took place at Bannockburn on the 23 and 24 of June 1314 have inspired and influenced people. Through art, song and the written word pieces have been created to commemorate those fateful days. Now it’s your pupils’ turn.

Entries can be made using live action, any form of animation or anything else pupils can imagine and create. Entries do not need to portray events during the battle, they can be set in any place or time.

Invitation to Creative Minds Learning Network, East Ayrshire: “Naturally Creative”

Tuesday 17th September, 4.15pm for 4.30pm, St. Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7SL

Keynote Speaker: Gordon Brown, Brain Juice

Once again the Cultural Co-ordinator Team within East Ayrshire’s Creative Minds Team has successfully secured funding from Creative Scotland and Education Scotland to continue to support our growing movement of professionals championing cultural education in our schools and communities.  This promises to be an interesting, informative and enjoyable event providing a platform to connect and collaborate with new partners, generate ideas and make things happen.  Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think would be interested in coming along or you feel would benefit from taking part.  All we ask is that they contact us with their details (name/designation, artist etc/establishment) so we have a handle on numbers. There will, as always, be an opportunity to connect with colleagues, teachers, artists, parents and pupils in a welcoming and friendly environment, enjoy our hospitality and a special preview of St. Joseph’s Academy Art Exhibition.

We will also launch our Creative Learning Opportunities Training Diary for 2013/14 which offers workshops, funding advice, visits and experiences to name only a few, and we invite you to book your creative learning opportunity of choice at the event.

As well as being a successful author, our keynote speaker Gordon Brown, has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing, including 14 years with Bass Brewers and as Director of Brands for the Tennents portfolio. He will share his knowledge and ideas to provoke discussion about the role and importance of creative minds in business and to fully recognise the increased value in teaching and nurturing creativity skills in schools. http://www.gordonjbrown.com/about-2

We hope you will continue to support the network in order to safeguard and shape the future of arts and cultural education in East Ayrshire.  Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any further information at this time.

Please RSVP helen.duncan@east-ayrshire.gov.uk to confirm your attendance if you haven’t already done so through our Facebook Page  www.facebook.com/CreativeMindsLearningNetwork

The Creative Learning Networks Fund is managed by Education Scotland, in partnership with Creative Scotland to support the development of Creative Learning Networks (CLNs) in local authority areas across Scotland.