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YDance – range of CPD opportunities

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  • DANCE FOR CORE PE
  • NATIONAL 5 DANCE
  • NATIONAL PROGRESSION AWARD IN DANCE (SCQF Level 4)
  • HIGHER DANCE
  • INCLUSIVE DANCE PRACTICE DAY
  • DANCE FOR NURSERY EDUCATION

 

DANCE FOR CORE PE

With a focus on Contemporary and Streetdance styles learn how to warm up your pupils, play creative dance games, teach a simple sequence, develop a sequence, use stimulus to create dance material and encourage the participants to develop their confidence, creativity and co-operation skills. These sessions also address some of the CfE Health and Wellbeing outcomes.

Friday 29 May, 9.30am to 4pm at Mad Studios – £85 (Look out for our special discount codes or recommend a friend)

 

NATIONAL 5 DANCE

This SQA qualification requires students to study 2 different dance styles and choreography to achieve this national qualification. Choose from the options listed below to build your own National 5 Dance course:

Contemporary – Mon 11 May Jazz – Tue 12 May Hip-hop – Wed 13 May Choreography – Thu 14 May

Individual Costs – £85

YDance National 5 Package – £285

(includes 2 dance style days, the Choreography day and a copy of the Choreographic DVD resource)

Each of these sessions take place at Mad Studios from 9.30am to 4pm (Mad Studios, 13 Main Street, Coatbridge, ML5 3AJ)

NATIONAL PROGRESSION AWARD IN DANCE (SCQF Level 4)

This SQA qualification requires students to study 2 different dance styles and choreography to achieve the award. Choose from the options listed below to build your own NPA Dance course:

Contemporary – Tue 5 May Jazz – Wed 6 May Choreography – Thu 7 May Classical (Ballet) – Fri 8 May Alternative (Hip-hop) – Fri 15 May

Individual Costs – £85

YDance NPA Package – £225

(includes 2 dance style days and the Choreography day)

Each of these sessions takes place at Mad Studios from 9.30am to 4pm

HIGHER DANCE

This SQA qualification requires students to study 2 contrasting dance styles and choreography to achieve this national qualification. Choose from the options listed below to build your own Higher Dance course.

Contemporary – Mon 18 May + Wed 20 May (am) Jazz – Tue 19 May + Wed 20 May (pm) Hip-hop – Tue 26 May + Wed 27 May (am) Choreography – Thu 21 May + Fri 22 May

Individual Costs – £85

YDance Higher Dance Package – £450

(This includes 2 dance style courses (1.5 days each), the 2 day Choreography course and a copy of the Choreographic DVD resource)

One and a half days are allocated to each style to allow time for technique class, exploration of sequences and support to develop a centre set performance solo, meeting the outcomes set out in the Higher Dance Performance unit. Two days are allocated for Choreography to cover the Higher Dance Practice Activity Assessment requirements and to demonstrate the progression through the learning outcomes.

All sessions take place at Mad Studios 13 Main Street, Coatbridge, ML5 3AJ

INCLUSIVE DANCE PRACTICE DAY

Develop your teaching skills for delivering dance with children and young people with additional support needs in this one day course:

  1. Methods of inclusive practice
  2. Creative ideas for pupils with and without additional support needs
  3. Planning & structuring a lesson plan / creative workshop

Wednesday 29 April, 9.30am to 3.30pm – £85 (Look out for our discounts or recommend a friend for 10% off)

 

DANCE FOR NURSERY EDUCATION

Develop your teaching skills for delivering dance with early years children:

  1. Creative ideas for dance classes inspired by stories and topics
  2. Planning and structuring a lesson plan / creative workshop
  3. Using props and music

Thursday 28 May, 9.30am to 3.30pm – £85 (Look out for our discounts or recommend a friend and receive 10% off)

Community Learning and Development, Early Learning, Primary, Research and Strategy, Secondary

Creative Conversation – Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire

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Forth Valley Creative Learning’s second Creative

Conversation for 2015 is happening tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March,

4.30pm – 6.30pm.

 

There are still a few places remaining if you would like to come along

or if any staff are interested in attending.

 

 

Design Thinking – Solving Problems and Challenges using Creative

Approaches

 

Led by Dr Scott Sherwood – Live Think Design

 

Makers Gallery and Bistro, Alloa, Clackmannanshire

www.themakersvillage.com

 

Wednesday 18th March 2015

4.30pm – 6.30pm

 

Doors open at 4pm for refreshments and registration and time after for

networking and refreshments until 7pm

 

All welcome.

 

After February’s sold out conversation exploring De Bono’s lateral

thinking theories we continue our focus on creative problem solving.

 

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Scott Sherwood who will lead a

participative and engaging 2 hour workshop sharing some tools and

exercises you can use to consider new thinking about existing issues in

school, community or work.

 

This session will introduce design thinking, a rigorous creative

process that enables individuals and organisations to identify and

articulate the challenges they face, while also enabling them to create

feasible and viable solutions. Using design thinking tools and

methodologies, individuals and organisations are able to develop empathy

for the people they are designing for (i.e. pupils, students, teachers,

lecturers, staff etc), challenge their own assumptions and understand

their underlying motivations.

 

Dr Scott Sherwood is a widely published academic and has led

organisational change initiatives, including the innovation programme in

the Technology Strategy Board’s £24 million Future City Demonstrator.

 

This workshops is open to head teachers, teachers, SLA’s, education

officers, early year’s educators, lecturers (FE and HE), students,

arts development officers, CLD officers, youth workers, community

workers etc. This workshop would also be of interest to creative

practitioners working in a learning / community context. All welcome.

 

If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1299170

 

Forth Valley Creative Learning is a collaboration between Education in

Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire, creating together opportunities

to explore creativity and creative learning.

 

Kind Regards

 

Clare

 

Clare Hoare

Senior Practitioner (Creative Learning)

Education

Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils

Teith House

Kerse Road

Stirling

FK7 7QA

Mon – Wed: Tel: 01786 274000 (Tolbooth)

Thurs – Fri: Tel: 01786 233226 (Teith House)

Mobile: 07876 877004

Email: hoarec@stirling.gov.uk

The aims of the Creative Learning programme and Forth Valley Creative

Learning are to support, increase and enhance participation in a wide

range of cultural and creative learning activities both within and out

of schools through the development and support of imaginative projects,

programmes and activities in collaboration with schools, creative

practitioners, local and national arts organisations and other partners

such as Creative Scotland and Education Scotland.

Forth Valley Creative Learning network is open to anyone with an

interest in creative learning for children and young people. In

partnership with Falkirk Council Education we host a number of talks and

professional development opportunities during the year. If you would

like to find out more or join our mailing list please email

creativelearning@stirling.gov.uk

Additional Support for Learning, Early Learning, Primary, Secondary, Technologies

Creative Use of Tablets in Schools – free European online course

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The European Schoolnet Academy is happy to announce that its Spring courses of 2015 are now open for enrollment. Join us on two exciting MOOCs this April, designed by teachers for teachers.

 

The first course to launch on the 13th April is the Creative use of Tablets in Schools course. Join us on this exciting learning journey that aims to guide teachers in their use of tablets and inspires them to use tablets to foster innovative teaching and learning. In 4 modules it gives a general introduction to the use of tablets in schools and discusses how tablets can support new learning approaches such as content creation, collaborative learning, personalized learning and flipped classroom. You can enroll on the course here: http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/web/tablets-in-schools. If you use social media, please also join the course Facebook group and help us spread news about the course via Twitter using the course hashtag #tabletscourse.

 

Community Learning and Development, Dance, Drama, Early Learning, Music, Primary, Secondary, THIS IS A TEST

Imaginate Festival & Delegate regestration is now open!

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Why register?

This year, you must register as a delegate in order to book your tickets from our Festival and delegate events programme and to be included in the delegate manual. For more information and to download the full festival and delegate events programme, click here.   Registration gives you:

  • Priority booking opportunities across the whole Festival programme.
  • Access to all the free delegate-only event.
  • The Imaginate Festival delegate manual.

All performances, events (and transport) are ticketed and subject to availability. Early booking is recommended, so register now in preparation for on sale day. Tickets are available to registered delegates from Monday 9 March at 12 noon. Best wishes The Imaginate team

Schools/Groups booking is open now.

The school performance programme is made available to schools for booking in advance of the public programme on sale date and also offers FREE performances of award-winning theatre from the UK for schools that do not have the resources to independently support visits to the Festival.

Here is the full link to the full information pages: http://www.imaginate.org.uk/festival/?utm_source=Imaginate+mailing+list&utm_campaign=0f2c1cc900-Imaginate_Festival_Delegate_events&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_16095e5529-0f2c1cc900-435383277

 

Developing the Young Workforce, Early Learning, Primary

Skills for work conference

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This one-day conference – Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce in primaries and nurseries – is being delivered in partnership by AHDS, SCEL (Scottish College for Educational Leadership) and Education Scotland. It is being held in Perth on 24 March 2015.

We have all heard a lot about the ‘Wood Commission’ report, or to give it its proper name ‘Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce’. Despite clear signals that the implementation of the report’s recommendations has implications for all school sectors, there has been very little focus on primary and nursery schools. This event is FREE to attend. Please complete the booking form to reserve your place.

http://ahds.org.uk/dsyw-booking-form/

Early Learning, Primary, Secondary, THIS IS A TEST

Scottish Education Awards 2015 – still time to make your nominations

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Celebrating hard work and success in Scottish education, the awards recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people. There are 17 awards available across a range of categories covering all areas of education. These include the Creative Learning Award: http://www.scottisheducationawards.org.uk/categories/creativelearning.asp.

Nominations must be submitted by 16 February 2015.

http://www.scottisheducationawards.org.uk/

Colleges, Community Learning and Development, Early Learning, Primary, Research and Strategy, Secondary

BBC: Get Creative asks What is the Future of Education?

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BBC Get Creative: What’s the future of education?

 

Get Creative is a new, public-facing, year long campaign led by the BBC

together with many other partners. It aims to raise the profile of arts,

culture and creativity, to highlight their central place in all our

lives and to celebrate where they happen all over the nation.

 

Get Creative will be launched through a series of events and debates

all over the UK – some of which will be picked up and covered by the

BBC on their TV or radio channels. Over the next year lots of different

activities, programmes, events and art works will be part of the Get

Creative Programme.

 

We think that the launch is a great opportunity to ensure that young

people and learning have a profile in this process right from the start,

so the CLA wants to ask all our members and supporters a question:

 

‘What is the future of education?’

 

We will be holding an event in the launch week of 23 February at which

will we ask young people to work with artists and teachers to think

through and present their ideas on the future of education. We’ll

collate and publish them, and ensure that the political teams and

education leads in all the political parties who are writing the

manifestos for the General Election are aware of them.

 

We want to showcase the fantastic power of cultural learning to inspire

creativity and innovation.

 

We’d love you to be a part of this process too.

 

 

How to get involved:

 

1.Hold your own event or debate in the launch week where you discuss

the future of education.

2.Come up with suggestions, manifesto pledges and ideas for education

over the next 20 years. Be as visionary and as innovative as you’d

like.

3.Hold your event or debate in whatever format you’d like –

workshops, meetings, a panel debate, a chat over coffee and cake, a

twilight session, an online discussion, a festival, or a performance.

You can make this discussion a part of an existing event or programme

something new, it’s up to you.

4.Invite anyone you’d like to be part of it – young people,

teachers, artists, colleagues, policy makers, arts learning partners,

parents.

5.Let us know you’re having it – email

lizzie@culturallearningalliance.org.uk with the details of your event

and we’ll tell the BBC team that are covering the launch and we’ll

send you the branding pack and further information about the scheme.

6.Record your findings and your ideas. Let us know your top five

suggestions for the future of education – you can send us videos,

podcasts and artworks (with the right permissions), but put your ideas

on paper too. We’ll include them in the dossier to send to policy

makers.

 

What is Get Creative?

 

Get Creative is a major celebration of the nation’s culture and

creativity. Led by the BBC and What Next? in collaboration with a huge

range of arts, cultural and voluntary organisations, everyone is invited

to get involved and share their creative talents.

 

How Get Creative came about?

 

Get Creative, led by the BBC and What Next?, came about as a result of

the Warwick Commission on the future of cultural value, and

collaboration with Voluntary Arts, Culture24, 64 Million Artists, Fun

Palaces, Cultural Learning Alliance and Arts Council England.

 

Colleges, Community Learning and Development, Early Learning, Primary, Research and Strategy, Secondary, THIS IS A TEST

Funding in Scotland – Search Engine

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SCVO launches free new funding search tool

Funding Scotland, a free new online search tool has been launched to help Scottish charities, community groups and social enterprises access funding.

 start searching now – http://www.fundingscotland.com/

Created by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), the new online search engine will help people find out about over 800 funds that provide support to Scottish projects. It includes grants, loans, prizes and other sources of funding support.

Community Learning and Development, Early Learning, Music

RSNO Teddy Bears Easter Picnic (CfE Level E – 1)

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RSNO Teddy Bears Easter Picnic (CfE Level E – 1)

If you go down to the woods today…you might spot an RSNO musician or two!
The Easter Bunny is looking for the Teddy Bears Picnic but can’t find it anywhere! With a little help from her friends at the RSNO, she’ll take us on a journey of musical discovery.
Join the full orchestra and actress Claire Knight for an interactive and fun concert for early years.
Don’t forget your teddy bear!

Duration: 30 minutes
Cost: £3 per pupil; staff free
Location: Henry Wood Hall, 73 Claremont Street, Glasgow, G3 7JB
Dates and times:
Tuesday 31 March 2015, 10am, 11.30am and 1.30pm
Wednesday 1 April 2015, 10am, 11.30am and 1.30pm
Thursday 2 April 2015, 10am, 11.30am and 3pm (family concert)

CPD – Practical Ideas for Music-Making with Early Years (CfE Level E – 1)

Edinburgh: Friday 6 February 2015, 12.30-2.30pm, Usher Hall
Glasgow: Monday 9 February 2015, 12.30-2.30pm at Henry Wood Hall
Dundee: Thursday 12 February 2015, 12.30-2.30pm, Marryat Hall
Perth: Thursday 5 March 2015, 12.30-2.30pm, Perth Concert Hall

The CPD sessions cost £20 per person and include a resource pack and ticket to an RSNO concert.

To book, please contact The RSNO Engage team at engage@rsno.org.uk or on 0141 225 3552.