“It’s not just about increasing creative confidence, it’s about broadening that confidence” From 2013-15, Starcatchers is delivering a pilot programme of Creative Skills Training for Early Years practitioners in Scotland. Funded by the Scottish Government and Creative Scotland, this programme offers a range of practical, accessible and inspirational training sessions from Early Years artists which explore expressive arts using an open-ended, child centred approach. Starcatchers is now inviting applications from applicants in Edinburgh, Fife, Inverclyde, East Lothian and South Lanarkshire with a deadline of Monday 23rd June. Applications for Aberdeen have a deadline of Monday 30th June. Deadlines for Dumfries, North Ayrshire and Highland will follow. The deadline for applications for Dundee has now passed, however, please enquire via email about potential additional spaces. “It goes beyond being given a set of instructions to follow, it’s a new way of thinking about your practice. We got to be more creative about being creative” FEEDBACK FROM 2013 / 2014 The programme is for everyone working across the Early Years sector, including staff in local authority nurseries and partner providers, family centre settings, health workers, childminders, and out-of-school and play workers. For more detailed information about the programme including aims and outcomes please download the Programme Overview and area specific information. “I used creative movement with a boy with severe anger issues – It absolutely blew my mind how effective it was” FEEDBACK FROM 2013/ 2014 In Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Inverclyde, East Lothian, South Lanarkshire and North Ayrshire sessions will take place in twilight slots, typically 4-6pm. Dumfries and Galloway sessions will take place within the working day, and sessions in Fife and Highland will take place over four intensive Saturdays. Please check the area specific information for exact times and dates. You can download an application form HERE and return it to Starcatchers by email: info@starcatchers.org.uk. |
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Electric Car Race
For the first time, two secondary schools in Inverclyde have formed a unique shared-campus team as they get ready to compete in a regional electric car race.
http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/news/2014/jun/campus-races-top/
The shared-campus project has been organised by the Technical departments of both schools, Port Glasgow High School and St. Stephen’s High School to engage the pupils in a special engineering challenge – to design, build and race their very own electric car.
The challenge has been set by Greenpower UK Education Trust which hopes to engage and inspire students with some guidance from their teachers and an industry mentor.
School pupils try out life sciences at BioCity
As part of the life sciences Skills Investment Plan, launched in April at BioCity Scotland, 156 S3+ pupils from 11 different schools in central Scotland took part in a unique innovation and enterprise day. Pupils learnt through hands-on activities how these companies have taken a ‘good idea’, supported that idea with scientific research and developed it into a business.
Ronnie Palin, Key Sector Manager for Life Sciences at SDS added: “This ground-breaking event offered young people the opportunity to gain real hands-on experience of the opportunities within Scotland’s expanding life sciences industry.
Design a River Creature Competition – British Council
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Tron Theatre Ambassadors Scheme
Tron Ambassadors scheme will give pupils the chance to be behind the scenes of a working
theatre. It will enable you to make a deeper connection with the Tron Theatre and gain a better
understanding of the industry.
You can download the full information in an A4 sheet here: Tron Participation Ambassadors scheme 2014-2015
Tron Participation are looking for pupils who –
- Have an interest in theatre
- Use social media such as twitter, Instagram, tumblr, wordpress as a way of conveying their thoughts and opinions with an audience
- Are comfortable talking to groups of people
- Are willing to promote the work of the Tron with family, friends and peers
- Are up for a challenge and happy to learn new skills and work as a team
- Are interested in developing employability skills
- Looking to expand their C.V to aid with college/university/job applications
Tron Ambassadors will –
- Meet 1-2 times per month at the Tron Theatre (after school weekday meetings)
- Take part in tasks and challenges out with allocated Ambassador meetings
- Keep in contact via email with Tron Drama Officer on related tasks and challenges
- Take part in a variety of theatre workshops/master classes
- Attend Tron Shows
- Host Tweet Meets within the Tron Theatre linked to Tron productions
- Promote the Tron to friends and family
- Blog, tweet and post about the Ambassadors scheme, Tron shows and events
- Work as a team to create a Front of House event at Tron Skillshops show
Does this sound like something you would like to be involved in? If so, email deborah.mcarthur@tron.co.uk by 3pm on Friday 22nd August stating your name, age, school, why you would like to be an ambassador and what skills you possess that would make you a successful Ambassador, should you be successful you will be invited along to a recruitment workshop on Thursday 28th August 2014.
National Working Group for Dance
The national working group for Dance met on 8 May at Optima Glasgow.
The main focus of the group is:
• to establish what the barriers are to the delivery of Dance
• to improve communication within the dance community
• to establish a network of contacts within the dance community
Con Morris from Education Scotland gave the group an insight into how Glow could be used to establish better communication and links. How a “Blether account” would allow practitioners to support each other and share good practice.
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Photo 14 National School Student Competition
Scran is heading to its 20th year. Periodically, it has run a national photography competition. We thought that, as this is a momentous year for Scotland, it would be a stoatin’ idea to run another National School Student Photography Competition.
http://www.scran.ac.uk/photo14/
Competitions mean prizes. And there are braw prizes. There are three sections: Primary, Secondary and ASN and each section winner will win one of Apple’s latest iPads. In addition, there will be an overall winner who will win a set of 10 iPads for his or her school. The runner up will win 5.
There will be a range of further runner up prizes which will include photo books.
Theme
Competitions need themes and this year’s theme will be “What Scotland means to me.” So think widely and creatively. In past years the overall winner had a pawky eye, a gallus vision and a canny control of the shutter.
Remember we are Scran – we like odds and ends and bits and pieces and stuff.
Learning Technologies: Design for Impact – briefing event on £1.1m funding
The Technology Strategy Board, the Knowledge Transfer Network, and the Education Foundation will be running as series of UK events to promote an upcoming £1.1m funding competition called Learning Technologies: Design for Impact which will highlight the challenges and opportunities specific to the design, adoption and implementation of digital technologies in the education sector used for learning and teaching.
This event will signpost companies to explore how co-design will engage educators and learners at a deeper level and will stimulate discussion among educators, designers, digital companies and education professionals. Attendees will meet like minded professionals from a range of backgrounds, including education, design, technology and digital, debate the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing innovative learning technologies, and connect with potential collaborators who seek professional expertise during this process covering a range of disciplines, from service or business design through to best teaching and learning practice.
For more information on the funding competition please visit: http://bit.ly/PpzVZU
Register below for a place to attend today.
Glasgow – 20 May 2014 – https://glasgowlearningtechnolgiesfundingworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk
Creative approaches to learning: live and virtual experiences
Definition of a Dream ‘A state of mind in which someone is or seems to be unaware of their immediate surroundings’ – definition of a dream
Friday 6 June 2014 (10:00 – 16:00)
Target Audience
Everyone interested in creative approaches to learning, including the role of live and virtual experiences.
- Venue:
- No venue as this is online for registration only
- Cost:
- This is a free event.
Summary
PLEASE NOTE: To register initial interest for the event please email Paul Gorman onmrpaulgorman@hotmail.co.uk
Using subtle and rewarding storytelling this live and virtual experience will take place over three days during the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas 2014. Participants will be invited to inhabit a fictional world that breaks the boundaries they have in their imaginations.
Participants will follow a multi-linear narrative that will lead them through a series of highly visual, physical experiences that connect to an overarching story. Combining online platforms and real-world environments, the groups will start to connect their unique experiences to make their own meaning and find the next part of the adventure.
More information about the experience will be shared at the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas launch on Friday 6 June. However information will be released from the end of May. If you would like to find out more or sign up to be a participant contact mrpaulgorman@hotmail.co.uk .
Participants are welcome from across Scotland and beyond. Although the experience will occur over three days it won’t be essential to commit to all of the time. The journey will exist in the virtual and live world to enable anyone to contribute.
Aims:
To think differently about the role of live and virtual experiences in shaping learning.
- Lead:
- Karen Lawson Phone: 01786 892024
- Event co-ordinator:
- Samantha Hay Phone: 01786 892007
GENERATION gets underway
GENERATION, a major, nation-wide exhibition project showcasing some of the best and most significant art to have emerged from Scotland in the last 25 years is now underway. Over 60 venues throughout Scotland will take part bringing together an exciting programme of work by over 100 artists from this month through to November, with the majority of exhibitions taking place over the summer of 2014, as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. One of the central aims of the project is to engage with a new generation and bring to life the possibilities that contemporary visual art presents to young people. Look out contemporary art workshops and CPD opportunities in your area!
GENERATION exhibitions now underway include Toby Paterson at Fife Contemporary Art and Craft @ Kirkcaldy Galleries (27th April – 22nd June), Corin Sworn at Inverleith House (12th April – 29th June), GENERATION – SXSW 2014 featuring work by Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Dalziel + Scullion (The Dick Institute, East Ayrshire (3rd May – 16th August) and ARTIST ROOMS: Douglas Gordon at Caithness Horizons (9th May – 11th October).Find further details at generationartscotland.org.
GENERATION is produced through a core partnership between National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland. GENERATION is part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. The series of exhibitions is being produced with the support of VisitScotland and EventScotland, British Council Scotland, Museums Galleries Scotland, the BBC, Education Scotland, Children in Scotland and Young Scot.
