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.
The conference programme and registration for this year’s SLF are now available on the SLF website. The programme has all the details you need to book your place at SLF 2011. The full programme of keynote and seminar presentations, along with full details of the range of additional activities at SLF, is only available on the SLF website.
New Dunfermline primary school is ‘Making Space’ to launch architectural publication http://www.childreninscotland.org.uk/html/med_prs.htm Children in Scotland reports that Dunfermline’s newest primary school, Carnegie, will on 29 June host the launch of Children in Scotland’s new publication Making Space: architecture and design for children and young people.
The publication is a permanent record of the Making Space 2010 Programme, run by Children in Scotland with support from OECD’s Centre for Effective Learning Environments and the Scottish Government, which championed innovation, creativity and sustainability in design for children and young people aged 0-18. The programme, which included an international award and supporting conference showcased innovative architecture and allowed educationalists and design professionals to share ideas about and experiences of creating better school buildings and learning environments.
A new link has been added to the Creativity Portal:
A website devised by young people to inspire interest in contemporary art amongst their peers, offer insight into the workings of the professional art world and, most importantly, be an online community for young people to showcase their work.—View
The Riverside Museum, Glasgow’s new Museum of Transport and Travel has opened to the public. The opening ceremony was conducted by Glasgow City Council Leader, Gordon Matheson.
It houses more than 3000 exhibits, in over 150 interactive displays telling the stories of the people who made the term ‘Clyde Built’ one which travelled the world and spoke volumes about unbeatable quality. From massive steam locomotives, to the recreation of a city street during the 1900s, the cathedral-like structure provides a stunning backdrop to showcase the innovation and ambition of what was the ‘Second City of the Empire’.
Yes it is back again! The event that allows pupils from across Scotland to entertain the nation. We already know that Scotland has got talent but has it got the Glow Factor?
You will see that we have an ever-increasing range of options for all ages and stages to study performing and production arts related subjects with us through:
Weekend and evening classes
Intensive study weekends
CPD for educators and artists
Summer schools
It is a hugely exciting time for us as we move towards name change and also the new UG curriculum and I know that the work between our organizations will be important in embedding high quality arts practices in drama, film and dance in the city.
We are just about to start planning for the period beginning August 2012 so if you want to chat about what could/should be in there, pick up the phone …
East Ayrshire Council reports that young filmmakers at Kilmarnock Academy were rewarded for their efforts recently, when they attended the premiere of their first-ever film – and received Oscars into the bargain. The Prince’s Trust xl club made the film Beat the Bully to help fellow pupils to recognise different kinds of bullying – and to help them to deal with it. The film is aimed at educating and informing other young people and will be shown in schools and youth clubs across East Ayrshire. Third year pupils at Kilmarnock Academy can opt to join the Prince’s Trust group and follow the course, which focuses on personal development, citizenship and enterprise, for two years.
Set yourself (or your class) the SWAP 30-minute challenge and spend half an hour either writing about your favourite Scots words OR write a story in which the characters use those words in their speech.
Use our worksheets (available to download on our Glow site) to discover, use and discuss Scots words and place-names. One even lets you give a weather report in Scots!
Remember to upload your entries so that they can be entered into the competition, or send them in to the postal address given on the SWAP Glow site.
There is still time to enter the Scots Words and Place-names writing competition, which is being judged by the writers Louise Welsh and Amal Chatterjee
The SWAP competition asks pupils to write a story, poem or essay relating to Scots words and/or place-names. There are four age categories: P1-3, P4-7, S1-3, S4-6 and prizes to be won.
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