Tell-a-Story Day is the national celebration of oral storytelling, when people all over Scotland make, share and listen to stories in schools, libraries, community centres, churches, hospitals, homes, gardens – and some more unusual venues!
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For the second year running SCC is challenging creative writers to be inspired by images from their collection to enter shorts stories for their ‘Flash Fiction’ Competition, as part of Book Week Scotland 2013. After the success of the 2012 competition an additional Children’s ‘Flash Fiction’ competition has been added. The competitions will be judged by prize-winning authors who will narrow the entries down to special commendations for each image and an overall competition winner for each age category. The winners will be announced at the beginning of Book Week Scotland. All competition entries will be published on the ‘Flash Fiction’ website.
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Scottish Book Trust is running a book trailer competition as part of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards, with a fabulous prize of £250 in book tokens. Why not get your pupils to produce a trailer for one of the shortlisted books?
The competition is open to all ages, and pupils can produce a trailer for any of the age categories. Scottish Book Trust has got a whole host of resources to help you produce book trailers with your pupils. Have a look at their Booktrailer Masterclass videos to get a comprehensive book trailer walkthrough – and on the same page, you’ll find a whole unit of work to help you integrate trailers into your planning.
Scottish Book Trust also has two exciting Authors Live events coming up, one with Mairi Hedderwick – find out more about this event online.
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.
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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:
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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