Red Kite Animation and Edinburgh Museums & Galleries present an exciting new animation competition. Inspired by artist Qian Shi’s award-winning animated short film about a toy shoe, the competition is designed to celebrate Edinburgh’s rich heritage and the art of animation.

Link with short film created by Qian Shi:

http://www.redkiteworkshops.co.uk/competition.html

The winning entries will be exhibited at the Edinburgh City Art Centre, profiled on the Red Kite Animaton website and the Animation Network’s website.

Entries will be judged by a panel of animation professionals and educators including: Will Anderson (BAFTA winning animator), Iain Gardner (from EIFF), Qian Shi, Jared Taylor (from ECA) and Sueann Smith (from Red Kite), and Cllr Lewis.

Benefits

For older, aspiring animators, this is a wonderful opportunity to have their work seen by some of Scotland’s most esteemed animation professionals and, for younger animators, an opportunity to enjoy being creative and have fun.

Prizes

Grand prize… a bespoke Red Kite Animation Workshop.

Winners will be showcased in an exhibition at City Art Centre; as well as on the Red Kite Animation and Scottish Animation Network websites, reaching hundreds of animation professionals worldwide.

All winners will feature in a “red carpet” screening ahead of Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013.

Additional prizes include: Red Kite Animation Certificates, film tickets, Dennis & Gnasher giveaways, DVDs and more!

http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/news/pupils-invited-to-a-brush-with-howson.aspx

Artist Peter Howson’s latest works have been on display at the Maclaurin Art Gallery in an exhibition entitled “From Death to Life” and it’s again proved to be incredibly popular.

Peter offered the pupils a unique artistic steer on honing and perfecting their own artistic talents, before offering some superb framed sketches to those who had asked him the most challenging, thought provoking or unusual questions!

23 April 2013, 8.15 am

http://bit.ly/Zc1540

Scran is a charity and online learning resource base with over 360,000 images and media from museums, galleries, archives and the media. These resources can be downloaded and used copyright free. Join this Glow Meet to find out how Scran can enhance the teaching and learning in your classroom. The same event is taking place at 3.45 pm on Wednesday 24 April.

Games Legacy blog recent post: GHA/Cube –

http://blogs.educationscotland.gov.uk/gameslegacy/2013/03/28/ghacube-gold-medal-programme-provides-funding-opportunities-for-glasgow-schools/

Young people across Glasgow are being given the chance to share a piece of the Commonwealth Games action. Glasgow and Cube Housing Associations, both part of the Wheatley Group, have joined forces with the council and launched a £55,000 fund to help schools run projects which will inspire pupils to try a new sport or get involved in cultural activities.

Budding film-makers and pupils from the Isle of Skye scoop awards at national Gaelic film ceremony as stars of the big screen turn out

http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2013/March/2013-03-27-01.htm

Budding film makers and pupils from the Isle of Skye have won top awards at FilmG, the National Gaelic Film Awards, which in its fifth year running, was held at The Arches, Glasgow on Friday night (22 March).

This year’s competition theme was ‘Acras/Miann’ (Hunger/Desire) which inspired an array of new ideas for filmmakers in both the 12-17 age-group and the adult category, with a total of 62 films being submitted.

The Scottish Government wants Scotland to be the best place in the world to grow up.

Making sure that children and young people are able to take up their right to play is an important part of this. The Scottish Government is writing the strategy to make sure that people know about children and young people’s right to play and understand why it is important.

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2013/education/march/news_tcm4754237.asp

The views of children and young people are important and they are invited to take part in this consultation.

The V&A at Dundee invites primary and secondary school teachers from across Scotland to take part in a survey which will help them shape their education programme for the organisation.

V&A at Dundee’s aim is to offer a programme which will encourage interdisciplinary practice and learning, covering a wide range of Curriculum for Excellence areas.  For example, a session looking at Hollywood Costume might discuss the use of costume design to represent particular faiths and debate issues of potential stereotyping, or how people of different faiths are represented in film genres. A session looking at Green Design would explore moral issues about climate change and sustainability.

If you’d like to participate through the online survey, please click on the following link: http://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=136327212796&SCE=3

If clicking on the link does not work, please copy and paste the address into your browser.

11 March 11.00 am http://bit.ly/VE8cWx

This animation workshop supports the paper creativity challenges that were designed (which can be found in the Paper Glow Group) and is most suitable for first and second level learners.

Education Scotland would like to invite practitioners working in upper primary and secondary to this event, particularly those interested in developing their outdoor practice to achieve Professional Recognition in Outdoor Learning from GTCS.

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/events/2013/eventgeneral_tcm4748061.asp

To attend this event, please complete the registration form http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G8MMLRZ.

You will need the name and contact details of the lead officer nominating you for this event in order to register. We will confirm places on 4 March and send you a detailed programme for the day then.

Building on Education Scotland’s successful ‘3-18 Places Projects’, this free half day event will prepare you to build the curriculum around the possibilities of an outdoor place near your school. We aim to give you an inspiring and enjoyable day that will open your eyes to the many possibilities of teaching outdoors in a local place, and leave you with practical ideas for how to get started

Find out more by looking at the reports of two previous events below.

Download (PDF) West Report Download (PDF) East Report

East event on 15 April 2013 1.30 pm – 5.30 pm at Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh. EH10, UK http://www.ltl.org.uk/resources/results.php?id=620

West event on 15 March 2013 1.30 pm – 5.30 pm at Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton. ML3 7UE http://www.ltl.org.uk/resources/results.php?id=619

It would be great to see as many teachers as possible joining in these opportunities to develop place-responsive curriculum making.