A writing competition for eight to 10-year-olds, which sees winners become published authors and schools receive £250 worth of free books, is open for entries. Visit the TES article for more information.
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Expressive Arts – National Glow Group
Visit the national Expressive Arts Glow Group for easy access to Forums, News, Glow Meets and Cookbooks on the Expressive Arts Curriculum. Remember to bookmark it in your Glow Light homepage.
Glow Meet – Surreal encounters at the National Galleries of Scotland
Join us for a peek into the weird and wonderful world of Surrealism…. .what it is and who did it.
We’ll be challenging you to take part in some quick fire tasks, in the hope of learning just what made the Surrealists tick.
To take part in this fun glow meet at 2pm on Thursday 18 November; you will need to organize a few things beforehand:
Magazines/Newspapers,
Scissors
, A4 paper
, Pencils
, Coloured pencils/felt tips
, Pritt sticks
Look forward to seeing you then!
National Galleries of Scotland
The Snow Queen: Christmas Show at the Lyceum
Booking is now open for our Christmas show, The Snow Queen.
Performance prices start from £7, with one teacher free for every 10 pupils. To make a group booking and to find out more details about prices please contact Gareth Davies, Group Sales Coordinator on 0131 248 4949 or emailgroups@lyceum.org.uk
To accompany the performance we are also offering creative drama workshops,giving your class the opportunity to experience for themselves the magic of the show. Workshops take place in your school, last 75 minutes, and are led by our dedicated Drama Artist.
Booking one of our workshops will help help you to meet some of the Curriculum for Excellence Expressive Arts Outcomes by giving your pupils direct contact with a professional arts company and a creative practitioner. During the workshop children will be encouraged to work creatively using a range of skills including team work, communication and sharing their work with others.
Teachers who book a performance will also be sent a resource pack with fun activities based on The Snow Queen to use in the class room.
Workshop prices start from £40. For more information or to book please contactCatherine Campbell, Creative Learning Administrator on 0131 248 4834 or ccampbell@lyceum.org.uk
Glow Cookbooks
Cookbooks are a great way of finding out how Glow can be used in teaching and learning. Check out the link (now in Articles and Links) to those that have been tagged as Creative Cookbooks.
Latest News from Creative Scotland
Visit the Creative Scotland website for latest news on the arts in Scotland: today’s news is the Love Music Festival.
‘I Can Play Music!’ Figurenotes Conference – Friday 26th Nov
Drake Music Scotland are extending invitations to the ‘I Can Play Music!’ Figurenotes Conference on Friday 26th November 2010 at the City Halls in Glasgow. Finnish partners Markku Kaikkonen and Kaarlu Uusitalo – creators of the Figurenotes system – will be presenting alongside their many Scottish partners, including SEN and mainstream teachers, music educators and musicians from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sistema Scotland and RSAMD Musicworks.
Visit Drake Music Scotland for a flyer and booking form.
Interdisciplinary Learning CPD Glow Meet – November 16th
Teachers can sign up now for an inspiring Glow Meet –CPDMeet 16 features an amazing, interdisciplinary learning project led by Angela McEwen of Media Matters in which renowned Scots poet Liz Lochhead used Glow to help students write poems in their English lessons.
I met Angela at the Scottish Learning Festival and we got to talking about Glow. I was very impressed when she told me about her project in which renowned Scots poet Liz Lochhead used Glow to help students write poems in their English lessons. When Angela added that Art & Design students did the illustrations and Business Education arranged for their publication and sale through Amazon, I knew it just had to be the subject of a CPDMeet!
I was even more delighted when Angela offered her services for this CPDMeet pro bono. Here are the details:
CPDMeet16 – The Liz Lochhead Collection
Led by Angela McEwen of Media Matters
November 16th at 10am
Sign up quickly here, it’s gonna be a biggie!
Love Music Festival 1st – 13th November
A festival of live music for young people, presenting a culturally diverse programme of internationally renowned musicians. It presents outstanding musicians alongside excellence & innovation in the interpretation & presentation of live music for young audiences.
Visit lovemusicfestival.com to find out what is happening near you!
‘My Home, My Place, My Scotland’ 15th November
An exhibition entitled ‘My Home, My Place, My Scotland’, aims to dissect Scotland’s cultural heritage by covering the whole spectrum of activity from castles, collections and costumed performers through to planning and conservation.
The event, which is free to the general public, will take place at the Roxburghe Hotel on Monday 15th November and includes exhibits from The National Trust, Edinburgh World Heritage, Historic Scotland, The Heritage Lottery Fund and Architecture and Design Scotland.
Click here for more info.
A highlight of the exhibition will be the opportunity to view one of the most significant finds in Scottish archaeology, the Orkney Venus. Scotland’s oldest known depiction of a human face, the figure was found last summer on the island of Westray to international acclaim. The figurine has recently been on a tour of Scotland, which has been seen by more than 100,000 people.
Costumed performers will also be in attendance, including children from Castleview Primary School who will talk about their role as junior guides. The children are taking part in a scheme run by Historic Scotland, which trains primary age children to take their peers on guided tours of historic properties during the school term.
