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The Scottish Civic Trust My Place Photography Competition 2013-2014 is now OPEN FOR ENTRY

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What is the My Place Photography Competition?

Now in their ninth year the Scottish Civic Trust My Place Photography Competition is a heritage photographic competition for young people of school age in Scotland. It is aimed at encouraging young people to explore their built environments in a creative way using photography as means of investigation and creative expression.

The My Place Photography Competition is part of Scotland’s contribution to European Heritage Days, and links into the International Heritage Photographic Experience run out of Barcelona and to the Council of Europe. The project is supported by the Historic Scotland and the 2014 competition is supported by The Lighthouse and Architecture + Design Scotland.

Who can enter?
All young people in Scotland are eligible to enter.
Entrants should be of either primary school age or secondary school age.
Entries should be made by a group leader or teacher on behalf of their students.

All entries are recognised with a certificate and will be placed in an online gallery, displayed in a public exhibition at The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Design and Architecture.
Two winners will be selected by a panel of judges and these will go on to represent Scotland in a worldwide exhibition and catalogue.

How can you take part?

Entries must be made by 31 January 2014

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Dance, Drama, Music, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies

Show Racism the Red Card’s Anti-Racism/Anti-Sectarianism Creative Competition

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2013/2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the annual Show Racism the Red Card’s Anti-Racism/Anti-Sectarianism Creative Competition in Scotland. The Creative Competition is an integral part of the Show Racism the Red Card’s work in Scotland and has become a central feature in the calendar with almost one in five of Scotland’s schools having participated in the competition.  Entries are welcome from both individuals as well as class groups and the closing date for all entries is Friday 31st January 2014.

To enter, school and college students must develop a piece of creative work that gets across loud and clear the important message that racism and/or sectarianism is not welcome in Scotland.  This could be artwork, poetry, a short story, creative writing, music, a dance/drama performance, research project or multimedia presentation.

Competition winners will be invited to a star-studded award ceremony at Hampden Park in March, attended by the elite of Scottish football, to receive public acclaim for their work and receive their prizes.

For further information please visit the Show Racism website.

Social Studies, Technologies

The Skills Development Scotland Schools Competition – ‘Discover MY Scotland’

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The Discover MY Scotland competition, which is being organised by Skills Development Scotland in conjunction with Education Scotland, Upskill People and Springboard, is asking every secondary school in Scotland to get together individuals, or groups of students, to design an online Discovery Trail for visitors wanting to discover the local area.

The Discovery Trail needs to have an interactive map containing an overview of your local area and why you think people should visit it.

Each school will receive a certificate from SDS and Springboard and the winning school, individual or team, will receive a day’s experience in a leading tourism venue plus a winner’s plaque.

For more information and to register, please visit the competition website.

Health and Wellbeing, Languages and Literacy, Mathematics and Numeracy, Sciences, Social Studies, Technologies

New report on Assessing Creativity across many subjects available on Creativity Portal

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Led by the University of Dundee and funded by Creative Scotland, this project gathered the views of three groups of professionals working within the expressive arts with the aim of identifying effective and innovative models of assessment of creativity. These models were documented and used to develop case studies in the format of a teaching resource for application across the whole curriculum. The resource was piloted and evaluated by the research and development team in collaboration with teachers and initial teacher education (ITE) providers.

Click here to find the downloadable file:

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=assessing+creativity

The project develops the links between arts organisations, schools and ITE providers through data collection; shared analysis and evaluation; and through the development, application and dissemination of findings. In this way stronger partnerships have been established as recommended in Teaching  Scotland’s  Future  (Donaldson  2010)

Social Studies

Show Racism the Red Card creative competition

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Creative Competition 10th year Anniversary http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2013/education/august/news_tcm4813659.asp?dm_i=LQE,1SLVU,3GU5HR,6ESKF,1
Show Racism the Red Card, the UK’s premier anti-racism charity, which uses professional footballers as anti-racism role models, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their anti-racism/anti-sectarianism creative competition.

This year, as it is the 10th anniversary of the competition, they are looking at celebrating the diverse cultures and heritage that make Scotland the place it is today.

Using Scotland’s heritage as a theme, they would like you to develop a piece of creative work that gets across clear messages of anti-racism and anti-sectarianism.

The competition will be launched in mid–September so please visit the Show Racism the Red Card website for updates.

Drama, Social Studies

Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition

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National Trust for Scotland

http://www.battleofbannockburn.com/learn/battle-of-bannockburn-short-film-competition/

As part of the programme of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, the National Trust for Scotland are launching the Battle of Bannockburn Short Film Competition to encourage school pupils to create new works which interpret Bannockburn from their own perspective.

For centuries the events that took place at Bannockburn on the 23 and 24 of June 1314 have inspired and influenced people. Through art, song and the written word pieces have been created to commemorate those fateful days. Now it’s your pupils’ turn.

Entries can be made using live action, any form of animation or anything else pupils can imagine and create. Entries do not need to portray events during the battle, they can be set in any place or time.

Sciences, Social Studies

Look, Capture, Create – Biodiversity Awareness Design

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Final Glow Broadcast! 10 June, 10.00 am http://bit.ly/13wLOz1

For the final ‘Look, capture, create’ Glow TV broadcast join the learning team at Dundee Contemporary Arts to explore the visual elements – line, shape, form, colour, tone, pattern and texture to create a design to promote Scottish biodiversity. And watch as we reveal and celebrate the Glow Stampede of Scottish fish, flora and fauna, your collaborative artwork.

Languages and Literacy, Music, Sciences, Social Studies

Working in the Music Business, Tony Robinson and Biodiversity – Glow Meets

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Look, Capture, Create – B is for Biodiversity and Beauty, 4 June http://bit.ly/14RG47G

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2013/05/27/look-capture-create/

During week 3 of the ‘Look, capture, create’ interdisciplinary learning experience we will be joined by a scientist/mathematician from Dundee University live in the Dundee Botanic Gardens to learn more about the importance of Scottish Biodiversity and how we can do simple things to help nature survive and grow. We will look in particular at the types and purposes of the beautiful patterns nature creates.
Find out more about this interdisciplinary learning experience below and visit the Look, Capture, Create Glow group here: http://bit.ly/153Zoha

Working in the Music Business, 5 June 2.00 pm http://bit.ly/12hGHXr

Yes World of Work Wednesdays is back again!  This event will give you a great insight into the real world of the music industry. The UK music business employs 150,000 people and is worth £3.5billion to the UK economy. We’ve brought together experts from all aspects of the industry including a manager, a singer, a record producer and a marketing manager.

Authors Live – Tony Robinson, 6 June 11.00 am http://bit.ly/Zv1tBk

Authors Live is stepping back in time with renowned popular historian, actor and author, Tony Robinson, to discover the strange secrets hidden in our Weird World of Wonders. Join us as we march through time with the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians and find out what made us Britons British. It’s history, but not as you know it!
After watching the live webstream in the morning why not join us for an interactive question and answer session with Tony Robinson at 1.30 pm http://bit.ly/13kLxyI

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.

(Glow log-in and password required).

Health and Wellbeing, Sciences, Social Studies

Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Edible Edinburgh, Breakfast at the Botanics

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Wednesday 19 June 2013 07:30 – 09:30

http://events.collegedevelopmentnetwork.ac.uk/events/show/4674

An outdoor learning experience where gardening and foraging experts will be on hand to show you how to gather and grow food in the city. The event will focus on organic and sustainable growing techniques from permaculture to living walls.

This event is targeted at everyone who is interested in the future of Education and particularly those interested in Growing Your Own and Outdoor Learning.

Sciences, Social Studies

Creative ebook learning resource

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Mission: Explore celebrates John Muir with launch of a free ebook

http://www.jmt.org/jmaward-mission-explore-john-muir.asp

This is a great example of a creatively delivered resource that also integrates a number of creative exercises for young people to explore the topic, including choreographing their own dance to keep warm on a mountainside and creating their own nature trails.

A partnership between the John Muir Trust and Mission: Explore has launched a free ebook to introduce the great explorer, naturalist, writer, mountaineer and conservationist to a new audience.