Did you ever want to be on air and run your own radio show? This is your chance: East Renfrewshire Council in conjunction with Pulse Radio 98.4 will celebrate young peoples’ engagement and voice by inviting pupils and youth clubs from the 12 to 14 June to participate in a Youth Radiothon.
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Creativity and You! National Event: Embedding Creativity Across Learning
May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm
The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.
The event will highlight just how imaginatively schools and teachers are already embedding creativity into their daily work, often in partnership with external organisations.
Teachers and senior managers in schools and the education sector will be able to draw on a range of good practice in promoting creative learning and improving learners’ creative skills within all subjects. The day is designed to:
- Explore what is meant by ‘Creativity skills for learning, life and work’
- Experience new and exciting approaches to motivating children to learn
- Discover different approaches taken to working with professionals and partners in delivering creative learning experiences.
- Find out about the resources and networks available to support creative teaching and learning
Participants will have the opportunity to explore and exchange innovative practices, and the practical outcomes of the day will be captured to complement and influence Scottish Government policy in promoting creative education practices.
The event also marks the launch of the new look Creativity Portal, www.creativityportal.org.uk, which includes a fantastic set of creative films specifically designed to support creative teaching and learning, and announces a new phase of development which opens up the Portal to all creative partners and freelancers who work with schools. The Creative Learning Networks (CLNs) Showreel film and case studies will also be launched at the event, illustrating the benefits of getting involved and showing the kind of activities through which the networks are building Scotland’s creative capacity.
The day will be introduced by Ruth Wishart, Chair of the Scottish Government’s Creative Education Group.
Pupil sees her road safety themed floor game produced
A pupil from St Joseph’s Primary School in Inverness has won a Highland wide Primary School competition to design a road safety floor game. The game is a fun way for pupils to play and teaches them about road safety and encourages them to walk and cycle to and from school.
http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2012/May/2012-05-11-03.htm
Authors Live – Catch David Walliams’ Glow Meet on Watch Again
We hope you had the opportunity to join over 240 schools – around 7200 excited Glow users – across Scotland as they participated in the Authors Live Event. If you missed it then you can watch again, go to GlowTV watch-again.
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/05/11/authors-live-david-walliams/
National Poetry Day 2012 theme is… STARS
Visit the Scottish Poetry Library website for information about National Poetry Day on Thursday 4 October 2012.
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/librarians/professional-news-resources
Creative Conversation 5 with David Cameron, Ollie Bray and Laurie O’Donnell
The fifth Creative Conversation is titled ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger. During this Creative Conversation we will consider the present and future implications of technology and the creative opportunities new technologies afford.
Creative Conversations bring together practitioners and policy makers from education, children and young people’s support services, the arts and cultural sector, along with parents, school business partners and HE/FE. The purpose is to explore and reach a common understanding of creative learning within the context of the new curriculum.
Creative Conversations are a series of 7 events, responding to Education and the Arts, Culture and Creativity: an Action Plan.
Places for Creative Conversations are limited. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please RSVP to:
Ollie Bray is based in Scotland, and works internationally with teachers, schools and governments to improve education outcomes for learners through the appropriate use of technology. He has been a senior policy adviser, school leader, head of department and is an award winning teacher. His interests include social media in schools, computer games in education, mobile technologies, school design, outdoor learning and 3rd millennium school leadership. Ollie was recently named as one of the UK’s most influential teachers.
Laurie O’Donnell is an independent consultant/adviser in the area of learning and technology futures, working with a range of public, private and not for profit organisations. Laurie joined LTS in June 2001 as Head of Future Learning and Teaching and held the posts of Head of ICT Development, Director of ICT Development and Director of ICT and Director of Learning and Technology. His remit was wide ranging and included Glow, the LTS Online Service, Scottish Learning Festival and Corporate ICT support to LTS staff. Before LTS Laurie was with Dundee City Council in the role of ICT adviser having worked in schools for 13 years as secondary school teacher, head of department and school leader. Laurie also has experience of local government as an elected member of Dundee District Council, serving as Convener of Community Services and Deputy Convener of Finance.
Places for Creative Conversations are limited. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please RSVP to:
New National Qualifications Music website
This website has been developed by Education Scotland in in partnership with practitioners to support learning and teaching at National 3, National 4 and National 5. It is hoped that both learners and practitioners alike will use this website and find the materials to be invaluable when studying music.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/nqmusic/about/index.asp
Teaching Hugo – film event for upper primary teachers, secondary teachers
Visit the AMES website for information about the Association and an event coming up – TeachingHugo: Edinburgh Sat 12 May 1000-1630. This event for upper primary teachers, secondary teachers and FE lecturers will screen Martin Scorsese’s multiple Oscar-winning Hugo 3D. There will also be presentations showing how the film and source book can be used as a stimulus for teaching and learning in CfE as well as SQA NQs. The revised flyer on website contains a summary of how the film will be linked to all CfE curriculum areas as well as cross-curricular learning. Email desmurphy47@gmail.com or at Instrell@aol.com for more information.
Association for Media Education in Scotland
http://www.mediaedscotland.org.uk/
Science fiction in Scotland – exhibition
Treasures display at the National Library of Scotland – Science fiction in Scotland – exhibition open until 30 June 2012
http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/treasures
Exhibits from the National Library of Scotland’s science fiction collections take you on a journey into the past, present and future of this little explored space of Scottish writing. The keyboards of Iain Banks, Steven Moffat, John Wagner, Alan Grant, Alasdair Gray and Ken MacLeod, have given us pop icons like Dr Who and Judge Dredd, and taken us to parallel universes and post-apocalyptic worlds.
Portraits of Britain photographic competition
Are you a keen photographer? Can you capture the meaning of ‘social sciences’ and ‘society today’ in a single picture? If so, the ESRC Portraits of Britain photographic competition could be for you.
This free competition aims to capture images of what life in Britain means today. There are eight categories to enter, including an open category for young people.
The competition is run in partnership with the tenth annual ESRC Festival of Social Science <http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/index.aspx> and the winning entries will be showcased at the ESRC’s 2012 flagship Festival event in London this autumn.
Visit www.esrc.ac.uk/portraits <http://www.esrc.ac.uk/portraits> for more information.
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/photographic-competition/index.aspx
