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National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools 2014

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Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools 2014 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/competitions-3740/tesco-bank-art-competition-for-schools-2014

The National Galleries of Scotland invites entrants to this art competition.  Last year there were over 11,000 entries.

There are six categories, each with a different theme:

Category A Nursery: Fish

Category B Primary 1-3: Drumming Soldiers and Fluttering Fairies

Category C Primary 4-7: Amazing! I Could Do That!

Category D S1-S2: Speed

Category E Special Education Schools: Fire

Category F Group Entries: Any of the above themes

Pupils are asked to view a small selection of artworks on line. Teaching notes and lots of discussion ideas are provided with links made to Curriculum for Excellence.

Closing date: Friday 2 May 2014.

Drama, Social Studies

Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition

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National Trust for Scotland

http://www.battleofbannockburn.com/learn/battle-of-bannockburn-short-film-competition/

As part of the programme of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, the National Trust for Scotland are launching the Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition to encourage school pupils to create new works which interpret Bannockburn from their own perspective.

For centuries the events that took place at Bannockburn on the 23 and 24 of June 1314 have inspired and influenced people. Through art, song and the written word pieces have been created to commemorate those fateful days. Now it’s your pupils’ turn.

Entries can be made using live action, any form of animation or anything else pupils can imagine and create. Entries do not need to portray events during the battle, they can be set in any place or time.

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Invitation to Creative Minds Learning Network, East Ayrshire: “Naturally Creative”

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Tuesday 17th September, 4.15pm for 4.30pm, St. Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7SL

Keynote Speaker: Gordon Brown, Brain Juice

Once again the Cultural Co-ordinator Team within East Ayrshire’s Creative Minds Team has successfully secured funding from Creative Scotland and Education Scotland to continue to support our growing movement of professionals championing cultural education in our schools and communities.  This promises to be an interesting, informative and enjoyable event providing a platform to connect and collaborate with new partners, generate ideas and make things happen.  Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think would be interested in coming along or you feel would benefit from taking part.  All we ask is that they contact us with their details (name/designation, artist etc/establishment) so we have a handle on numbers. There will, as always, be an opportunity to connect with colleagues, teachers, artists, parents and pupils in a welcoming and friendly environment, enjoy our hospitality and a special preview of St. Joseph’s Academy Art Exhibition.

We will also launch our Creative Learning Opportunities Training Diary for 2013/14 which offers workshops, funding advice, visits and experiences to name only a few, and we invite you to book your creative learning opportunity of choice at the event.

As well as being a successful author, our keynote speaker Gordon Brown, has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing, including 14 years with Bass Brewers and as Director of Brands for the Tennents portfolio. He will share his knowledge and ideas to provoke discussion about the role and importance of creative minds in business and to fully recognise the increased value in teaching and nurturing creativity skills in schools. http://www.gordonjbrown.com/about-2

We hope you will continue to support the network in order to safeguard and shape the future of arts and cultural education in East Ayrshire.  Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any further information at this time.

Please RSVP helen.duncan@east-ayrshire.gov.uk to confirm your attendance if you haven’t already done so through our Facebook Page  www.facebook.com/CreativeMindsLearningNetwork

The Creative Learning Networks Fund is managed by Education Scotland, in partnership with Creative Scotland to support the development of Creative Learning Networks (CLNs) in local authority areas across Scotland.

Drama, Health and Wellbeing, Music

Commonwealth Games 2014 Glow Meet – Creativity and Expressive Arts

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Game On Scotland – Expressive Arts

3 September 2013 16.00

http://bit.ly/15dNkeP

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/Game/2013/08/27/game-on-scotland-glow-meet/

Join us every month for a series of 19 exciting Glow meets running throughout the academic year 2013/14.  This is the first Glow Meet in a new series around the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games highlighting opportunities for interdisciplinary across all 8 curriculum areas. This CPD session will provide practitioners with a kaleidoscope of ideas and opportunities in using the Games as a context for learning with a specific focus on expressive arts and creativity.

Drama

Creativity Portal Highlights #5 – Imaginate – Evaluating the Performing Arts

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As part of the Co-Create fund that challenged creative organisation to use Glow technologies in innovative ways, Imaginate created a micro-site within Glow that allowed learners to play the role of theatre critic and reflect on a performance they had experienced.

The tool uses beautiful animation and works on the white board to generate a truly interactive experience in the classroom.

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=evaluating+and+app

Health and Wellbeing

‘Angel Wings’ – mental health publication

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Due to popular demand arts organisation, Artlink have reprinted it’s short story publication called ‘Angel Wings’ written by acclaimed Scottish author Anne Donovan and illustrated by Tess Wood.  ‘Angel Wings’ is work of fiction based on the experiences of a selected group of people with experience of mental ill health. After discussion Artlink commissioned Anne Donovan to write imaginatively about a child’s experience of having a mother or father who experiences mental ill health. Anne was asked to write it in a way that would speak to children and young adults assuring them that they were not alone and that the experience is relatively common.
Angel Wings has been used as teaching tool across the country in exploring issues of health and wellbeing. Very recently we received extensive feedback from a Mind Your Head Co-ordinator in Shetland who has been using the book with a composite P 4/5/6 class, one of the pupils said: ‘It is very important to accept others who may be different from yourself. In Angel Wings it has a very good explanation of mental health, it said that mental health is an illness, it is a bit like a T.V and it is not tuned in properly and it can go onto different channels and they can hear voices that we can’t hear, some are nice but some are scary’. More information about the project in Shetland is on the Angel Wings blogsite (under the downloads section) which can be accessed here.
Artlink are keen that the story continues to be put to positive use in supporting children and young people to explore issues of mental ill health. The book is suitable to be used within a formal educational settings for ages 8 and up – further teaching materials linked to the Curriculum for Excellence can be found on the resources page on the blogsite. Hard copies of the story can be obtained from  info@artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Artlink 13a Spittal Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DY 0131 229 3555 with a small donation for postage.  ISBN 978-09551882-3-7
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Creativity Portal Highlights #4 – Paint like Jackson Pollock

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Today is the fourth in a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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Jacksonpollock.org is a curiosity of a website that allows you to paint like Jackson Pollock with your mouse or keyboard. Great fun and strangely liberating it is a tiny window into what it might feel like to paint in such a style.

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=pollock

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Creativity Portal Highlights #3 – your local creative learning contacts

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Today is the third of a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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As the new academic year begins you have the opportunity to embed creativity into your teaching, and engage your learners with creative learning strategies and partnerships. Your local authority will have staff in place to support you in developing creativity in your work, and may have a Creative Learning Network you can engage with.

You can find all of your local creative learning contacts on the Creativity Portal here:

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=&c=,creative-learning-contacts

Languages and Literacy, Sciences

Glow TV events from Edinburgh International Book Festival – create your own story

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EIBF 2013 – Superhero Siblings with Gwyneth Rees, 20 August 10.30am http://bit.ly/14xLyVH

Saffie is no ordinary sibling, she’s a sister with superpowers! Join author Gwyneth Rees and meet the quirky characters from her enchanting My Super Sister series. Share stories of superpowered magic and mayhem, and find out how to create your own super special story idea. This event is suitable for Primary 3-5.

EIBF 2013 – The Physics of Superheroes with James Kakalios, 20 August 12.00 midday http://bit.ly/1477joh

James Kakalios explains the basic principles of physics without an inclined plane or pulley in sight.  Instead, all of his examples come from superhero comic books (particularly those in which the heroes get their science right!). Starting with fun superhero questions, the fascinating mysteries of science are revealed. This event is suitable for S2- S6.

EIBF 2013 – Ciaran Murtagh: Jokes, Genies and Japes, 21 August, 12.30 pm http://bit.ly/1br310Z

Ace author, CBBC scriptwriter and star of The Slammer, Ciaran Murtagh wants you to help him make up a brand new story.
Choose a title, decide what happens next and then make sure everything’s all right in the end. Giggles are guaranteed as this master storyteller weaves words into stories right before your eyes!
This event is suitable for P3-6.

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.

(Glow log-in and password required).

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Creativity Portal Highlights #2 – Professional Learning Community on Glow

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Today is the second of a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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A new professional learning community for Creativity has been set up within Glow with the hashtag #create. Please join us to share news, events, resources, discussions and thinking around this curricular area. All welcome.

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=%23create