Young people and North Ayrshire Council Family Placement team members met Scottish Government Minister for Young People and Children Aileen Campbell MSP.
The Minister met young people, who staged an exhibition of their own photography as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze awards, during a visit to Irvine.
http://www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk/NewsArticles/minister%20visit020812.aspx
A new exhibition of artwork by pupils from Turriff, Peterhead and Mintlaw Academies inspired by the German photographer August Sander has gone on display at Duff House, Banff.
The pupils have been working with local artists Amy Davenport and Fergus Connor to produce the body of work which will be exhibited at the north-east visitor attraction during August and September. Duff House is currently hosting an exhibition of portraits by Sander, regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers. The pupils researched his works and techniques to document their own communities in a manner similar to that practiced by Sander in his portfolio ‘People of the 20th Century’.
Download the latest newsletter from East Ayrshire’s Culture and Countryside Education services which includes many creative opportunities from drama and sound workshops to composing and poetry. All of the expressive arts are represented here with the work relating to the natural world, exhibitions and heritage.
Artwork created by school children for the John Gray Centre’s opening exhibition has been returned to the three schools involved for permanent display.
Our Place in Time was an exhibition of visual art. John Gray Centre development staff worked with schools, young people and community groups to explore the archive and local history collections and then create pieces that brought together what they had learned with the children’s own memories and personal experiences. The project highlighted how the past and present can be brought together in a creative and fun way.
East Lothian Council
http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/news/article/1158/schools_consider_our_place_in_time
Grange Academy youngsters visited the former Opera House construction site on John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, recently to see how to apply what they had learned in the classroom to the world of work. The third year Graphic Communication class heard about the history of the Opera House and why the site was being brought back to life. Pupils were given the opportunity to view drawings which surveyors and builders used in the project.
http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndGovernment/newsarticle.aspx?p=9281
Have you entered Education Scotland’s exciting design challenge? You still have time! The design challenge is being run through the Marks on the Landscape website
within the learning context of the land regeneration project Fife Earth. The challenge is aimed at those working within second, third and fourth curriculum levels.
The competition closing date is 21 June 2012.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/marksonthelandscape/designchallenges/billboard/index.asp<http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/marksonthelandscape/designchallenges/billboard/index.asp>
A course created by Alan Coady of East Lothian that is intended for oral historians is now listed on the creativity Portal. The course may also be useful to anyone interested in editing spoken word files (mp3, wav etc.) The program is a free download and you can find it at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
The full resource can be found here: http://edubuzz.org/alancoady/files/2012/04/Sound-Editing-in-Audacity-for-Oral-Historians.pdf
The National Records of Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Parliament, is mounting an exhibition in the Parliament from Wednesday 15 August to Saturday 8 September 2012 featuring two surviving original documents with a direct link to William Wallace. Many visitors to the exhibition are unlikely to know much about this turbulent period of Scottish history so primary and secondary pupils are invited to provide text, artwork or short films to help tell the story in a modern way.
Contributions for the exhibition must be submitted to the Scottish Parliament Education Service by Friday 15 June. Full details about this and the Education
Programme during the exhibition are available on the Scottish Parliament website (www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace <http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/education/wallace> ).
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/visitandlearn/Education/50458.aspx
There is still time for learners to enter the Education Scotland challenge to design a double-sided billboard to be seen by people entering and leaving Scotland.
The design challenge is being run through the Marks on the Landscape website <http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/marksonthelandscape/index.asp> , an interdisciplinary learning resource focused on creativity skills, within the learning context of the land regeneration project Fife Earth. The challenge is aimed at those working within second, third and fourth curriculum levels.
The competition closing date is 21 June 2012.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/marksonthelandscape/designchallenges/billboard/index.asp
Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have launched an exciting new writing project to encourage people to write about the place in Scotland that they love the most.
My Favourite Place in Scotland is running from 19 March to 31 August 2012, and in that time Scottish Book Trust wants to involve everyone in Scotland in building a written picture of Scotland’s best-loved places.
Submissions should be made to Scottish Book Trust website and can be written in a huge variety of different forms, such as a story, poem, song lyrics, a short play or sketch, a letter or even diary entry.
Each submission will feature on Scottish Book Trust’s website and a selection of the most interesting and inspiring offerings will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and published in a book in late 2012.
Submissions can be made online athttp://www.scottishbooktrust.com/myfavouriteplace or by post to My Favourite Place, Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunks Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.
The closing date for entries is 31 August 2012.
For more information read Scottish Book Trust press release.
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