Category Archives: Community Learning and Development

Take One Action Film Festival

April 26, 2012 S. Bullock Leave a comment

Are you aged between 15 and 21 years? Interested in great films that make a difference in the world? Would you like to organise inspiring film screening events in your local community? If so, here is your chance to take action!

Take One Action – Scotland’s global action cinema project – is organising it’s second Young Action Heroes Project for young people and their educators/youth workers at the Macrobert Centre in Stirling in late August 2012. We are keen to hear from schools and youth groups who want to take part in the residential and then screen a film to inspire action in others!

Application information is available to download from www.takeoneaction.org.uk/youth

THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY 25TH MAY, but if you have questions before then emailyouth@takeoneaction.org.uk or phone Andy at 0131 5536335.

Community Learning and Development

Year of Creative Scotland – a sneak peek of what’s ahead

April 16, 2012 S. Bullock Leave a comment

This article in the GTC magazine Teaching Scotland gives a few indications of what the Year of Creative Scotland has in store for our young people – well worth a scroll through.

http://www.teachingscotland.org.uk/education-in-scotland/primary-teaching/44-get-creative-scotland.aspx

Community Learning and Development

Wanted! Creative teachers and group workers!

March 5, 2012 S. Bullock Leave a comment

Are you creative in the classroom? Do you empower creativity in your young people?
Education Scotland is looking for teachers and CLD staff who use creativity in their work to speak up and share their creative learning and teaching approaches with the rest of Scotland through a series of very short online film clips.

Creativity in its purest sense involves generating original ideas that have value and crosses ALL areas of the curriculum (not just the arts) and we are looking for examples from subjects as diverse as PE, Languages and Maths. It could be the young people learning creative skills or an approach to lesson planning that is particularly creative. What creativity might involve can be found here: http://glo.li/xGyO32

Here are the questions we would like to put to you:

• What is creativity (to you)?

• Why be creative in your teaching?

• What happens when the young learners are engaged in a creative activity?

• What did you and your young learners do that was creative?
You might explain an example of what creativity looks like in your classroom or group.
You might detail day-to-day creative approaches or else explain a specific project, topic or development.
How did this specifically benefit you and the young people?

You will be filmed by a professional film company (they really put you at your ease) who will come to you, fit around your timetable, and the whole process of setting up and filming will take less than half an hour. Ultimately we are capturing just 3 minutes of glorious quality footage from you that will be shared through the Creativity Portal. This is a great opportunity to showcase your creativity to a national audience.

The filming will be arranged to suit you some time in the next three weeks.

It takes moments to offer your experience or suggest a colleague who you think would fit the bill:
Go to: http://glo.li/z0Mi3s
Email: Stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk
Phone: 0141 282 5194

Community Learning and Development, Developing the Young Workforce, Drama

SQA accredited Performance and Production summer course announced by SYT

February 23, 2012 S. Bullock Leave a comment

Scottish Youth Theatre announces SQA accredited six-week Summer Festival course for participants aged 16-25.

Applications for Summer Festival 2012 – Twisted Shakespeare – close on Wed 29 Feb.

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Scottish Youth Theatre is proud to introduce an exciting new six-week summer course, offering a vocational alternative to school and college qualifications, and focussing on active, practical learning for young people.

The newly SQA accredited Performance and Production Learning Programme will this year run alongside Scottish Youth Theatre’s annual flagship event, Summer Festival, and is open to applicants from all over Scotland and beyond aged 16 – 25.

Successful completion of the course will afford participants a qualification that sits between the Higher/Advance Higher level on the SCQF worth a total of 29 credit points.

The Performance and Production Learning Programme is the first course of its kind in Scotland.

You can watch the short film explaining the opportunity (publicly and through Glow) here.

“The company is delighted to be able to offer this opportunity to achieve an accredited practical qualification to all young people in Scotland especially those who may not have been able to achieve an academic award in a formal set up”, says Mary McCluskey, Scottish Youth Theatre Artistic Director and Chief Executive. “Having the SCQF and SQA seal of approval reflects the intensity and calibre of the course. And the award to be gained on completion of the course gives participants credit points as proof of their dedication to the course”.

Now in its 36th year, Summer Festival offers performance courses for young people from all over Scotland ages 8-25. All courses have a clear progression route leading to the Performance and Production Course.

Former participant Andrew Still, recently cast in Hollyoaks, fully recommends getting involved in Summer Festival to other like minded young people. “I’ve taken part in two Summer Festivals and they really opened my eyes to the world of performing. I think it’s so exciting that participants can now achieve a qualification at the end of the course. It’s satisfying but a lot of hard work. The chance to gain an award that reflects this will appeal to many young performers”.

Scottish Youth Theatre would like to thank Skills Development Scotland for their support in developing this course.

For all information about the Performance and Production Learning Programme, and all other Summer Festival 2012 courses, visit www.scottishyouththeatre.org. For all enquiries email pippad@scottishyouththeatre.org or call Scottish Youth Theatre on 0141 552 3988

The closing date for Summer Festival applications in Wed 29 Feb 2012

Community Learning and Development, Developing the Young Workforce

Shetland youth film group webcasts to the world

February 13, 2012 S. Bullock Leave a comment

Maddrim broadcast Up Helly Aa

http://www.shetland.gov.uk/news-advice/PR-MaddrimbroadcastUpHellyAa.asp

Shetland’s youth based film group Maddrim Media, in partnership with Promote Shetland, broadcast the events of Up Helly Aa live to the world via webcast last Tuesday. Over 8000 unique visitors from as far afield as the Bahamas and Australia watched the day’s events online and were able to enjoy a special radio segment recorded by the group.

Community Learning and Development

BBC Launches New Website to Promote Local Activities

January 31, 2012 S. Bullock Leave a comment

On the BBC’s new Things to Do website, you can discover activities for all ages across the UK, run by the BBC and trusted partners including museums, galleries and nature organisations near you.
Become a partner yourself and promote your activities online – or enter your postcode to discover events happening in your local area.
Things to Do aims to inspire public participation across ten different categories: Arts & Culture, Entertainment, History, Learning, Lifestyle, Music, Nature, Outdoors & Adventure, Science and Sport. www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo

Are you aged between 15 and 21 years? Interested in great films that make a difference in the world? Would you like to organise inspiring film screening events in your local community? If so, here is your chance to take action!

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