Glow Meet this Thursday.
Engross Theatre is a registered charity that brings the principles of the Curriculum for Excellence to children with additional support needs, through educationally based theatre. This Glow TV event will give you the opportunity to find out more about this theatre company and hear from a teacher who has worked with them
Working in partnership with VOCAL (the association for culture and leisure managers in Scotland) and the Scottish Government, Education Scotland has now published a final version of How good is our culture and sport? A quality improvement framework for culture and sport provision.
The aim of this publication is to support continuous improvement among the range of organisations that provide services and activities for culture and sport in local areas.
While the principal target and user of the framework is the local authority, it is recommended that local authorities work with others, for example service-providing organisations, including those involved as community planning partners on self-evaluation using the framework. By using it, all of these organisations will be able evaluate their strengths and areas for improvement in providing culture and sport and also the impact of that provision on their communities.
The guidance is centred on using self-evaluation as a key driver for continuous improvement. It defines what self-evaluation for improvement is about, and notes that ‘evidence shows there is a strong link between robust self-evaluation, led by effective leadership and management, and the development of the capacity for further improvement’.
1 November, 3.45 pm
Engross Theatre is a registered charity that brings the principles of the Curriculum for Excellence to children with additional support needs, through educationally based theatre. This Glow TV event will give you the opportunity to find out more about this theatre company and hear from a teacher who has worked with them
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.
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Scottish Borders Council’s Arts Development team has recently helped secure funding for an exciting puppet theatre event for the Borders.
Ruffled Feathers, a community arts group based in Selkirk, has recently been awarded an ‘Awards for all’ grant from the National Lottery. The money will be used to run preparatory workshops for children and young people in advance of a fantastic pop-up puppet theatre event ‘Windows to the future’ next year in Galashiels.
The pop-up puppet theatres will be staged in four empty shop windows and people will see rod and shadow puppets, animation and scenery and audio soundtracks portraying the drama, humour and everyday high-street life starting at 1900 and leading to a visionary ‘Saturday of the future’ window.
Performances will start when shops open and finish when they close, with rolling looped five minute performances throughout the day. The changes in shops, transport and people will give shoppers, visitors, shopkeepers and participants a quirky but very real sense of place with added moments of visual intrigue and wonder. There will also be a surprise ‘street performance’ element that will create what Ruffled Feathers hopes will be an amazing and memorable day in Galashiels.
Councillor Vicky Davidson, Executive Member for Culture, Sport and Community Learning, explained: “The involvement and support of our Arts Development team has helped Ruffled Feathers shape up their exciting project and put together a funding bid. I watched some of their puppet making at a workshop during the recent WASPS art studios open day in Selkirk and it looked great fun for kids and adults alike. The plans for pop-up puppet theatre performances in shop windows will bring colour and fun to the centre of Galashiels but will also give young people a lot of creative enjoyment leading up to the events.”
Ruffled Feathers is encouraging young people from 6-16 years and supportive volunteers to sign up for out-of-school workshops which will involve puppet making, mask making, story development, animation, public performance, set building and more. The workshops will be run by experienced and inspirational artists from the Borders and further afield, local volunteers and, with the support of the council, will prepare for the ‘Windows to the future’ event on the last Saturday of the Easter holidays next year.
How you can get involved:
The free workshops will be run after school on two to three week days and a number of weekends at a central Galashiels venue from November through to March next year. Ruffled Feathers is also looking for enthusiastic people with an interest in arts, crafts and, even better, puppets and some experience of working with young people.
You can contact Ruffled Feathers via the email below or visit Moondogs café or the library in Galashiels to find out more details about times and dates, the project itself including ways of contributing memories and images for research.
For more information:
Email: ruffledfeatherspuppets@gmail.co.uk
Website: www.ruffledfeatherspuppets.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ruffledfeatherspuppets – ‘Events’.
The Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival will be celebrating ‘The Year of Creative Scotland’ with a programme of storytelling, writing poetry and the arts, from 27 October until 4 November 2012.
http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/council/press/?release=3215
The festival will launch with events delivered in partnership with the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, and culminating in the celebration of some of the best of contemporary Scottish Poetry at the ‘Alloa Poetry Jamboree.’
The Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival, sponsored by Clackmannanshire Council and Creative Scotland is supported by The Scottish Book Trust, The Scottish Poetry Library and the International Scottish Storytelling Festival.
Glow Meet, 24 October, 2.00 pm
http://glo.li/W6rke2
In this Glow TV event you will hear two of Scotland’s top musicians – Ewan Robertson and Megan Henderson – singing a short song in Scots and another in Gaelic. You will then get the chance to sing along during the event and on 30 November during the ‘Scotland Sings’ event itself! There will also be a competition for schools to write a short song and chorus with prizes for the winning entrants and the chance to performance the song live on Glow.
Free to all schools and students –
With great soloists, duos, quartets, quintets and bands, this series features the best young music talent in Scotland. It helps players develop in their careers and enjoy the renowned acoustic of the Usher Hall. For more information on these projects visit www.livemusicnow.org.uk
Open the flyer below for the full picture:
You can find the National Poetry Day Glow Group easily on the Creativity Portal – just search for Poetry!
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/national-poetry-day
The Scottish Poetry Library has ideas for teachers and librarians for National Poetry Day. Visit their website for information.
The Daily What has launched a headline writing competition for nine to 16 year olds.
The winning entry will be picked by the editor-in-chief of the Herald & Times newspaper group, from a shortlist chosen by the Daily What News team.
http://www.dailywhat.org.uk/2012/09/enter-our-headline-writing-competition.aspx
The winner’s headline will be published with the story on the Daily What News website, and will appear in the Herald newspaper.
Deadline for entries is Sunday 21 October 2012.
Following the success of Holyrood’s ‘Learning Through Technology’ conference in April, Holyrood Connect and technology partner XMA are going on tour to share an update on the Scottish National School iPad Pilots. Representatives from primary and secondary schools taking part in the pilot, launched by Michael Russell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education & Lifelong Learning in May, will discuss their experiences so far and their plans for the future while University of Hull will present their initial findings on the impact these devices have had on learning and teaching.
http://learningthroughtechnologytour.holyrood.com/
Attendees will get hands on with an iPad for the duration of the event and can get a taste of what children at pilot schools have experienced over the last few months in a classroom breakout session hosted by primary and secondary teachers from pilot schools. For the more technically inclined XMA, Apple Solution Expert in Education will offer a session that looks at how iPad can be effectively secured and managed without impacting on the personalised experience that it offers learners.
Regional Education Manager for Apple, Andy Nagle will discuss Apple’s roots in education and it’s current learning ecosystem including iPad, iBooks Author and iTunesU. There will be an opportunity to submit questions via a Twitter hashtag, a selection of which will be posed to a panel at the end of the session.
Register your interest indicating your top two venue preferences from:
Edinburgh 3rd October
Perth 8th October
Glasgow 9th October
Aberdeen 11th October.
Delegate places are by invitation only. Register your interest on the site.
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