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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Glow Meet: using small, everyday actions to change perceptions of refugees
Simple Acts – Spirit Project, Wednesday 9 May, 11 am, http://glo.li/Iuk9ba
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/04/30/simple-acts-share-a-story/
Simple Acts is about inspiring individuals to use small, everyday actions to change perceptions of refugees. Through Glow TV you can join weekly events that highlight individual acts such as learning about a refugee experience, cooking a dish from another country and finding out about the new Spirit Project. The series is on every Wednesday morning at 11 am.
Take One Action Film Festival
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.
Year of Creative Scotland – a sneak peek of what’s ahead
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.
Creativity Portal and Early Years focus on fresh Education Scotland website
You can visit the new Education Scotland website, bringing together the best of HMIE and LTS content, at http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/ and for a focus on how the Creativity Portal caters for Early Years teaching you can read about in in the Early Years Matters publication here.
Wanted! Creative teachers and group workers!
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
SQA accredited Performance and Production summer course announced by SYT
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
Shetland youth film group webcasts to the world
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.
BBC Launches New Website to Promote Local Activities
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
Early Years CPD from Children In Scotland – places still available
Nature Kindergartens: making a start
8 Feb 2012, Half day morning
It is widely accepted that unstructured outdoor play improves children’s physical and emotional development, mental well being, social skills and opportunities for creative learning.
Between 2006 and 2008 almost eighty nature kindergartens were developed in schools in Fife where children go out into woodland, forest or foreshore on a regular basis.
At the end of the day participants will go home determined to make something happen, and confident of their ability to do it!
Transforming Early Years Spaces on a Shoestring
8 Feb 2012, Half day afternoon
A quality environment for children’s development cannot just be bought ‘off the peg’. Enriching children’s learning environments takes careful planning and consideration of the whole needs of the child both physical and emotional. A balance between simply providing new equipment on a regular basis and integrating this within a philosophy of development is required. The tutor is was pre-school education coordinator at Fife Council.
This half-day workshop will give participants an understanding of what is, and what is not, required to provide rich and meaningful early years experiences, and provide ideas as to how to achieve this.
The tutor – Chris Miles
Chris was a Nursery School Headteacher for twenty years, and Pre School Education Coordinator for Fife Council Education Service for eight years. During both these careers aspects of her work attracted national attention. She maintains an involvement in Nature Kindergartens through her chairing role in the Forest Schools Group within the Forestry Commission, and is in demand for consultancy and training work across Scotland, on a variety of issues involving early education. Chris was recently awards an MBE for services to Education and Young People.
Further information or to book, please visit us online at http://www.childreninscotland.org.uk/training or contact us by telephone on 0131 222 2446.
Early bird rates are currently available from £45 for one workshop or £85 for both.
