A pupil from St Joseph’s Primary School in Inverness has won a Highland wide Primary School competition to design a road safety floor game. The game is a fun way for pupils to play and teaches them about road safety and encourages them to walk and cycle to and from school.
http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2012/May/2012-05-11-03.htm
Visit the AMES website for information about the Association and an event coming up – TeachingHugo: Edinburgh Sat 12 May 1000-1630. This event for upper primary teachers, secondary teachers and FE lecturers will screen Martin Scorsese’s multiple Oscar-winning Hugo 3D. There will also be presentations showing how the film and source book can be used as a stimulus for teaching and learning in CfE as well as SQA NQs. The revised flyer on website contains a summary of how the film will be linked to all CfE curriculum areas as well as cross-curricular learning. Email desmurphy47@gmail.com or at Instrell@aol.com for more information.
Association for Media Education in Scotland
http://www.mediaedscotland.org.uk/
You are invited to Edinburgh’s fourth
Creative Conversation
Welcome
Gillian Tee
Director of Children and Families
with
David Cameron and guests:
Graham Tydeman
and The Leonardo Effect
On Tuesday 24th March 2012 at 4.30pm (registration from 4pm)
At the Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College, South Bridge
Please join David, Gillian, Graham and colleagues afterwards (from 5.30) for a drinks and light buffet reception and to continue the conversation.
Numbers are limited and places will be allocated first come first served. Please RSVP by Monday 23rd April to: linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk
Edinburgh Student Council are hosting a Creative Learning conference on March 5th at the National Museum of Scotland. A planning group of pupils from 4 Edinburgh Secondary schools came up with all the workshop ideas, leading the way in Creative Learning.
Visit the fortnightly Holyrood magazine where the Fertile Minds article discusses creativity in Scottish Education from a political perspective.
A free exhibition is being held in Cupar’s Corn Exchange on Friday 27 April to showcase a series of photographs taken by the town’s schoolchildren. Pupils from the four primary and secondary schools in Cupar have been working with a professional photographer on the project to inspire their community to be more active. During the two-month ‘Be Active – Art in the Windows’ project the children were taught many different ways to be active, and were then encouraged to photograph their efforts around the town.
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible! During the week-long festival, in conjunction with Creative Scotland and partners, there will be a variety of activities happening across Scotland. View the Calendar of Events <http://www.scotlandscolleges.ac.uk/curriculum/festival-of-dangerous-ideas/festival-of-dangerous-ideas.html> so far.
http://www.scotlandscolleges.ac.uk/curriculum/festival-of-dangerous-ideas/festival-of-dangerous-ideas.html
Venue: Various venues throughout Scotland
Education Scotland has launched an exciting new design challenge. Aimed at 2nd to 4th curriculum levels, the challenge can be incorporated into planning for a number of curriculum areas including art and design, social studies, religious and moral education, technologies and sciences, and the themes of sustainability and global citizenship.
Learners are invited to create a design for a double-sided billboard to signal the entrance and exit to Scotland. The work should offer different perspectives for people who are arriving and people who are leaving. Themes might reflect why people need to leave their native countries or why they would want to come and live in Scotland today.
Support materials and further instructions for this challenge can be found on the Marks on the Landscape <http://newsletters-ltscotland.org.uk/t/LQE-QHEJ-49RSCF-ADDYH-1/c.aspx> website. Entries should be submitted by 21 June 2012
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/marksonthelandscape/designchallenges/billboard/index.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0<http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/marksonthelandscape/designchallenges/billboard/index.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0>
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2012/educational/march/news_tcm4713582.asp
Parris Wilson (aged 11) and Megan Robertson (aged 14) have won the Scottish Civic Trust PhotoArch competition 2012. Their winning photos were chosen from over 630 entries submitted by primary and secondary schools across Scotland. Prizes and certificates for the winning, commended and highly commended entries were presented by Derek Mackay MSP, Minister for Local Government and Planning at a special ceremony on Tuesday 27th March at The Lighthouse, Glasgow.
Anyone interested in taking part in the 2012-13 competition should contact Abigail Daly abigail.daly@scottishcivictrust.org.uk‘
View the young people’s work here: Award winners 2012
Parris and Megan’s photographs, along with all the entries, will be on view to the public for four weeks at The Lighthouse, before going forward to represent Scotland at the International Heritage Photographic Experience exhibition in more than 40 countries.
PhotoArch encourages young people to take an interest in buildings, archaeology and heritage. Sites under the lens have included everything from atmospheric ancient ruins to ultra-modern flats, spanning castles, schools, homes, shops, churches and factories, to name a few.
The judges though that Parris’ shot of her school’s boiler house, silhouetted against the sky was bold and unusual. Parris said: “I didn’t notice the cross shape until I was showing my photography to my teacher, who noticed it. I just thought I would photograph the chimney at school. I didn’t expect to win!”
PhotoArch, which began in 2004, expanded last year to allow entries from secondary schools. Megan, a pupil at Mackie Academy in Aberdeenshire, photographed a stairwell in Aberdeen University and impressed the judges with her striking composition. She said: “I was having a little wander in old Aberdeen and when I saw this spiral staircase I wanted to go up it but I wasn’t allowed, so I had to think of a different way to take the picture.” She added “I want to be a photographer now and on car journeys I keep seeing buildings and thinking they would make a good picture.”
The judges for PhotoArch 2012 were Ruth Parsons, Chief Executive of Historic Scotland; Ray Entwistle, Chair of the Scottish Civic Trust; Robin McClory, Director at ADF Architects; and Julia Horton, journalist for the Times Educational Supplement Scotland.
Ruth Parsons, Chief Executive of Historic Scotland, said;
“The breadth of imagination shown by the entrants has been exceptional. The PhotoArch competition clearly brings out the very best in our young people, inspiring remarkable creativity and offering new perspectives and new interpretations on buildings and monuments that have a special place in our communities.”
Ray Entwistle, Chair of the Scottish Civic Trust, said;
“The PhotoArch competition is a great way to get children thinking about the places and spaces that surround them. Once again, we had many excellent entries from pupils of all ages, showing originality, inventiveness and an eye for detail. PhotoArch goes from strength to strength with a record number of entries this year and submissions from both primary and secondary schools.”
PhotoArch is supported by Historic Scotland.
PhotoArch is also supported by Architecture + Design Scotland, ADF Architects, Holmes Miller, Glasgow Institute of Architects, Morgan McDonnell Architecture Ltd.
Primary School Category
Winner
Parris Wilson (age 11) “The Boiler House pipe” Howdenburn Primary School, Scottish Borders
Highly Commended
Holly Taylor, age 9 “No one home”, St Mary’s Primary School, Stirling
Olly Carr, age 9 “Sun on Sand”, St Mary’s Primary School, Stirling
Sara MacDonald, age 9 “Railing reflections”, Langside Primary School, Glasgow
Commended
Steven Taylor, aged 12 “The steeple” Southesk Primary School, Angus
Kira Renilson, age 11 “The Cross”, Howdenburn Primary School, Scottish Borders
Daniel Shrimpton, age 11 “Wind chimes”, Abernyte Primary School, Perth and Kinross
Secondary School Category
Winner
Megan Robertson, aged 14 “Staircase to a fairytale”, Mackie Academy, Aberdeenshire
Highly Commended
Sam Wood, age 15 “Duart Castle, Mull”, Woodfarm High School, East Renfrewshire
Murray Angus, age 16 “George Square Fairground”, Strathaven Academy, South Lanarkshire
Nicholas Hamilton, aged 17 “Princes Peacock”, Strathaven Academy, South Lanarkshire
Marlon Bozic, age 12, “Corner”, Fairview Secondary School, Perth and Kinross
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