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Dance

Pupils perform Chinese Umbrella Dance for First Minister

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Glebe Primary School’s vibrant umbrella dance wows First Minister http://www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk/NewsArticles/UmbrellaDance.aspx


Pupils from a North Ayrshire primary school performed a colourful Chinese umbrella dance for First Minister, Alex Salmond at the launch of the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow.

Youngsters from Glebe Primary School in Irvine travelled to Glasgow to demonstrate their appreciation of Chinese culture with a performance of the vibrant and intricate dance.

The event, celebrating the launch of the Confucius Institute for the West of Scotland, was attended by VIP, members of the academic community and public. First Minister Alex Salmond, Chinese Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Scotland, Li Ruiyou, and Xiaogang Tian, Minister Counsellor for Education officially opened the Institute on Tuesday, 4 October.

Music

BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year finalists tour Scotland

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BBC Radio Scotland award finalists hit the road http://www.creativescotland.com/news/bbc-radio-scotland-award-finalists-hit-the-road-11102011

Creative Scotland announces that the cream of Scotland’s young traditional musical talent is touring the country in the next few weeks. Coming together as the TMSA Young Trad Tour 2011, the group consists of the six finalists of this year’s BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, together with the winner of the 2010 Award.

Languages and Literacy, Social Studies, Technologies

Reinventing tourist books for the 21st Century

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Elgin heritage project seeks recruits http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_news/news_76590.html
Community groups and individuals interested in Elgin’s heritage are being invited to join an exciting project led by the National Library of Scotland in partnership with Moray Council’s libraries service. Great Escapes involves the creation of multi-media tourist guides based on historic maps, images, films and memories of places. The project makes use of new technology to reinvent tourist guidebooks for the 21st century and also encourages people to explore the historic and natural environment in more depth. Local schools have already signed up but opportunities remain for community groups or individuals to become involved.

Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies

Pupil sees winning artwork plastered on local buses

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Ancrum pupil poster prize

http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/news/index/article?article_ref=1519&month=10&year=2011


A Dundee school pupil will be keeping a close eye on the local buses in the coming weeks to see if she can spot her handiwork. A pupil who attends Ancrum Road Primary School, was picked as the winner of the Dundee Travel Active poster competition and has been to Lochee Park to see part of her prize.

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The Future of Glow – the online debate closes on Monday

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The online debate will close on Monday and I would encourage you to register with the Cabinet Minister’s wiki to share any views and experiences you might have:

http://eduscotict.pbworks.com

Recently Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning made an announcement on the future direction of ICT in Scottish schools. The full announcement is broadcast on Engage for Education (http://engageforeducation.org) but in summary the key points were:

· With immediate effect the current Glow Futures procurement has been stopped
· An open online discussion will take place to help shape the current thinking and shape of what Glow will become.
· On 17 October the Scottish Government will hold an ICT summit in Stirling where the results of the online discussion and way forward will be considered

Glow is an incredibly powerful resource that has a significant impact on teaching practices and has benefitted practitioners, young people and others involved in education across Scotland. This announcement is a real opportunity as it recognises that Scotland has been acknowledged as a leader in ICT in education in recent times, and that we are equally determined to ensure that we remain at the cutting edge in this area in the years ahead.

The key message for you is that Glow is being given even stronger backing than ever from Scottish Government and Glow will continue with business as usual until the current contract continues ends in September 2012. At this point all content will be migrated across to the new tools being used – meaning your work so far and over the next year within Glow will not be lost or lose its value. The likely benefits of the new approach are that the tools we offer will be far more familiar to you, and the skills needed to use them will be far more transferable (just as Glow Blogs make use of the popular WordPress technology).