The Learning Through Exhibitions series helps schools and community groups to explore exhibitions before, during and after a visit to The Fruitmarket Gallery. They can also be used for arts activities at any time alongside our other resources documenting the exhibition. The series suggests ways to think with and through art and be inspired to make it. Creative Challenges are open-ended and adaptable to any age group.
Forth Valley Creative Learning’s second Creative
Conversation for 2015 is happening tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March,
4.30pm – 6.30pm.
There are still a few places remaining if you would like to come along
or if any staff are interested in attending.
Design Thinking – Solving Problems and Challenges using Creative
Approaches
Led by Dr Scott Sherwood – Live Think Design
Makers Gallery and Bistro, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
Wednesday 18th March 2015
4.30pm – 6.30pm
Doors open at 4pm for refreshments and registration and time after for
networking and refreshments until 7pm
All welcome.
After February’s sold out conversation exploring De Bono’s lateral
thinking theories we continue our focus on creative problem solving.
We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Scott Sherwood who will lead a
participative and engaging 2 hour workshop sharing some tools and
exercises you can use to consider new thinking about existing issues in
school, community or work.
This session will introduce design thinking, a rigorous creative
process that enables individuals and organisations to identify and
articulate the challenges they face, while also enabling them to create
feasible and viable solutions. Using design thinking tools and
methodologies, individuals and organisations are able to develop empathy
for the people they are designing for (i.e. pupils, students, teachers,
lecturers, staff etc), challenge their own assumptions and understand
their underlying motivations.
Dr Scott Sherwood is a widely published academic and has led
organisational change initiatives, including the innovation programme in
the Technology Strategy Board’s £24 million Future City Demonstrator.
This workshops is open to head teachers, teachers, SLA’s, education
officers, early year’s educators, lecturers (FE and HE), students,
arts development officers, CLD officers, youth workers, community
workers etc. This workshop would also be of interest to creative
practitioners working in a learning / community context. All welcome.
If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1299170
Forth Valley Creative Learning is a collaboration between Education in
Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire, creating together opportunities
to explore creativity and creative learning.
Kind Regards
Clare
Clare Hoare
Senior Practitioner (Creative Learning)
Education
Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils
Teith House
Kerse Road
Stirling
FK7 7QA
Mon – Wed: Tel: 01786 274000 (Tolbooth)
Thurs – Fri: Tel: 01786 233226 (Teith House)
Mobile: 07876 877004
Email: hoarec@stirling.gov.uk
The aims of the Creative Learning programme and Forth Valley Creative
Learning are to support, increase and enhance participation in a wide
range of cultural and creative learning activities both within and out
of schools through the development and support of imaginative projects,
programmes and activities in collaboration with schools, creative
practitioners, local and national arts organisations and other partners
such as Creative Scotland and Education Scotland.
Forth Valley Creative Learning network is open to anyone with an
interest in creative learning for children and young people. In
partnership with Falkirk Council Education we host a number of talks and
professional development opportunities during the year. If you would
like to find out more or join our mailing list please email
Friday 6 March is the date for final entries for the John Byrne national drawing competition to arrive at Education Scotland offices in either Dundee or Glasgow. We have had an excellent response from schools so far but there are still four days to go until the competition ends!
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2015/03/02/john-byrne-drawing-competition-update/
Day of Dance – Delivering a high quality Dance experience in a 21st century curriculum, Saturday 21 March 2015, Denny High School, Falkirk
This is a free event, open to teaching staff across all sectors. This will be of particular interest to schools who have started their learning journey through dance and wish to develop their confidence and competence in a variety of learning contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to attend a variety of practical workshops delivered by teachers. These workshops will showcase innovative learning approaches in dance and will demonstrate how these can be incorporated into practice.
Sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8H2GX2Q
Shakespeare Schools Festival is the UK’s largest youth drama festival, we work with over 1000 schools and 140 theatres across the country, and we hope you will join us this Autumn to make the 2015 Festival the biggest and best yet!
What is Shakespeare Schools Festival?
SSF is a charity that gives primary, secondary and special schools across the UK the opportunity to perform a 30 minute abridged Shakespeare play on a local, professional stage, alongside other local schools. We provide the training, resources and structure that enables you to direct a cast of up to 30 students to perform your chosen play in a non-competitive, celebratory night of Shakespeare in the Autumn term. For more detailed information please visit www.ssf.uk.com/howitworks.
Here is the full information leaflet: Info for Scottish schools – updated
This year in Scotland we will host the Festival at the following theatres, the Platform Theatre in Glasgow, The Church Hill Theatre in Edinburgh, Eden Court in Inverness, The Lochgelly Centre in Fife, Falkirk Town Hall and ACT Aberdeen. The performances will be in November, with additional training dates earlier in the year.
Spaces are limited, so do contact us via the details below as soon as you can if you are interested in hearing more!
Jenny Rush-Cooper
jenny.rushcooper@ssf.uk.com
020 7601 1933
The European Schoolnet Academy is happy to announce that its Spring courses of 2015 are now open for enrollment. Join us on two exciting MOOCs this April, designed by teachers for teachers.
The first course to launch on the 13th April is the Creative use of Tablets in Schools course. Join us on this exciting learning journey that aims to guide teachers in their use of tablets and inspires them to use tablets to foster innovative teaching and learning. In 4 modules it gives a general introduction to the use of tablets in schools and discusses how tablets can support new learning approaches such as content creation, collaborative learning, personalized learning and flipped classroom. You can enroll on the course here: http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/web/tablets-in-schools. If you use social media, please also join the course Facebook group and help us spread news about the course via Twitter using the course hashtag #tabletscourse.
Why register?
This year, you must register as a delegate in order to book your tickets from our Festival and delegate events programme and to be included in the delegate manual. For more information and to download the full festival and delegate events programme, click here. Registration gives you:
All performances, events (and transport) are ticketed and subject to availability. Early booking is recommended, so register now in preparation for on sale day. Tickets are available to registered delegates from Monday 9 March at 12 noon. Best wishes The Imaginate team
Schools/Groups booking is open now.
The school performance programme is made available to schools for booking in advance of the public programme on sale date and also offers FREE performances of award-winning theatre from the UK for schools that do not have the resources to independently support visits to the Festival.
Here is the full link to the full information pages: http://www.imaginate.org.uk/festival/?utm_source=Imaginate+mailing+list&utm_campaign=0f2c1cc900-Imaginate_Festival_Delegate_events&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_16095e5529-0f2c1cc900-435383277
Donald Meek Award 2015
The Gaelic Books Council is inviting submissions for the Donald Meek Award 2015 which aims to encourage new and creative writing. This may be poetry, short stories, novels or drama. Academic works and research studies written in English related to Gaelic are also invited.
For more information, please contact janice@gaelicbooks.org or www.gaelicbooks.org. Applications must be submitted no later than Friday 3 April 2015.
Have your class design and market a new fair trade snack and win £100 of prizes for your school. At Traidcraft, we want to encourage the next generation of decision makers to be creative and pioneering in their approach to enterprise, so Snack Attack not only promotes team work and communication skills, but it also ticks boxes for curriculum subjects such as art, English, design & technology, and citizenship.
The deadline for entries is 27 March, so it’s not too late to get involved! Read more and download your information pack here: http://www.traidcraftschools.co.uk/the-snack-attack-challenge
A new National Digital Learning Week is taking place from 2 – 6 March and we want to encourage schools to get involved and share how they are using digital technologies to support learning and teaching. We would love to hear how schools are incorporating digital approaches at home and in the classroom, whether this is small-scale or large-scale. The whole point of National Digital Learning Week is to involve schools, share what’s going on and encourage teachers to have a go with digital technologies and to share, do, develop in school with learners.
During the week we would like to encourage schools to:
Find out how to get involved: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/ndlf/category/news/
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