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CLPL – Teacher’s Introduction to Dazzle Ship in Edinburgh
Wed 1st June 16.30-18.30, Leith Community Education Centre (Kinnaird Hall)
Fri 3rd June 13.30-15.30, Leith Community Education Centre (Shore Room
Refreshments provided
On May 25th Dazzle Ship Scotland, a co-commission between the Edinburgh Art festival and 14-18 NOW, launches down in the Port of Leith marking the centenary of the WW1 Battle of Jutland. Dazzle was a form of WW1 ship camouflage invented by the artist Norman Wilkinson, in which bright bold geometric patterned designs adorned battle ships to confuse the enemy. This summer Turner-Prize nominated artist Ciara Phillips has designed her own dazzle for the MV Fingal berthed in the Port of Leith.
The Dazzle Ship presents interdisciplinary learning opportunities across Social Studies, Mathematics, Technologies and the Expressive Arts. Helena Barrett, Edinburgh Art Festival’s Learning and Engagement Coordinator will run an introductory session to the Dazzle Ship project presenting how you can use the ship and its themes with your learners in your classroom. The session will include a tour of the ship, a presentation on dazzle and an introduction to the EAF Dazzle Teaching Resource. Suitable for all teachers and educational practitioners.
To book a place please go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/teachers-introduction-to-dazzle-ship-scotland-tickets-25167396360 or email Helena at helena@edinburghartfestival.com
Free In-School Transition Workshops For Primary 7 Pupils Available May / June 2016
Moving Up Project
Moving from Primary to Secondary school can be one of the most testing times for our learners.
From being a big fish in a little pond to a minnow in a new, much larger, sea can be a daunting challenge for some.
The Moving Up Transition Project utilises the themes and characters from the film Inside Out to support learners transitioning from P7 – S1.
The Moving Up Transition Project creative sessions engage learners through using clips from the film Inside Out. Inside Out explores the impact of moving from a familiar place to a new home and a new school in a new city, on the central character, Riley.
During the workshop a range of playful, creative strategies help learners to examine what the upcoming change will mean for them. Learners then develop an emotional intelligent understanding of how a little anxiety during times of change is normal and that there is support available to help them with any concerns they may have. Experienced facilitation within the session will mean that learners create a toolkit that helps them to:
- develop coping strategies relating to change
- effectively assess some of the things that could go wrong
- identify strategies for minimising risk that things will go wrong
- identify what to do when things do go wrong
· find help and support from a range of places Each in-school session is suitable for a maximum of 1 class (30 young people) at a time and lasts 2 hours. All that’s needed is a blank wall to project onto / smart-board and room to move around. For more information and to make a booking please contact: Annie McCourt on 0141 3328128 (EXT 237) or e-mail her at annie.mccourt@glasgowfilm.org
Welsh ‘Creativity Portal’ launched
As a recommended action of the Welsh Assembly’s review of creativity across the curriculum the new Welsh equivalent of the Creativity Portal was launched just before Easter, now called the ‘Creative Learning Zone’. Take a look: http://hwb.wales.gov.uk/creativity
College Development Network Emporium: Inspiring Ideas. Developing the Workforce
The CDN Emporium 2016: Inspiring Ideas will take place 01 to 17 June, offering a fortnight of thought-provoking and practical workshops, seminars and activities at our offices in Scotland and in colleges across Scotland.
This year the CDN Emporium will explore ‘Developing the Workforce’ as a theme, focusing firmly on the current needs and challenges facing colleges.
View the full programme and book online here
FREE Twilight Creative Conversations in Stirling and Falkirk
We would like to invite you and any colleagues that you think would be interested, to two inspiring Creative Conversation in May.
· 16th May | 4.15pm – 6pm @ Tolbooth, Stirling – Hywel Roberts, Teacher, Educationalist and Author (please note change of time, this conversation is a slightly earlier time than usual conversations – please join us when you can as we realise it might be tight to get to us by 4.15pm if you are travelling from a distance)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2541687
· 26th May | 4.30pm – 6.30pm @ Camelon Education Centre, Falkirk – Dennis Guiney, Educational Psychologist and Author http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2545883
We will be joined on the 16th May by Hywel Roberts, Teacher, Educationalist and Author (with an energy and a humour that is infectious) who will be asking those that join us to reclaim our professional imaginations and IMAGINEER THE CURRICULUM. We highly recommend hearing Hywel speak if you are interested in exploring approaches that make learning real for young people and reimagining learning (in under 2 hours!). You can find out more about Hywel and his work at www.createlearninspire.co.uk. See Hywel in action in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsdJr5cqvAs Hywel has also written two books which can be found at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hywel-Roberts/e/B005R3TTD4
On Thursday the 26th May we will be joined by Dennis Guiney, Educational Psychologist and Author who will be asking us all to DARE TO DREAM.
Dennis wrote an inspiring article in TESS back in September 2015 which sent us on a path of discovery to find him. We have attached the article below. His article asked why, when we know more about how education works than ever before, the basic model has barely changed in decades. In this interactive conversation Dennis will use a potted form of Appreciative Inquiry to support teachers to try a bit of the dreaming stage of AI which can support teacher led curriculum creativity. Alongside Tim O’ Brien, Dennis wrote ‘Differentiation in Teaching and Learning: Principles and Practice’.
For further information about the Creative Conversations and how to book tickets please see the leaflets attached below.
If you are able to put these up in your school / college staff room, office, notice board or send this email to staff we would be very grateful if you could share this information wider.
If you need any further information please do not hesitate to get in touch with either myself at creativelearning@stirling.gov.uk or Gayle Martin in Falkirk at Gayle.Martin@falkirk.gov.uk
We hope you can join us.
Kind Regards
Clare
Clare Hoare
Senior Practitioner (Creative Learning)
Stirling Council
Children, Young People and Education
c/o Tolbooth
Jail Wynd
Stirling
FK8 1DE
Tel No:
Mon – Wed: 01786 274000 (Tolbooth)
Thurs – Fri: 01786 233226 (Municipal Buildings)
An infographic a day keeps the creativity at play – Day 8 – Poster for ELCC
Here is the eighth in a run of our new infographics that explore the place and nature of creativity in learning, teaching and improvement here in Scotland.
This poster offers a stimulating shortcut to the creativity skills and is intended mainly for Early Learning and Childcare settings, though it brightens up anyone’s wall! It can be printed A3/A4 or larger!
Nursery/primary teachers – £400 funding available for a creative project
Scottish Book Trust are offering £400 funding plus support for nursery and primary teachers who’d like to develop a fun, creative book-based project!
We’re looking for creative practitioners who’d like to use our free digital Authors Live event with author Ed Vere as a springboard for an inspiring project. Find out more on our website!
You can also sign up to watch this event, which takes place on May 19. It’s going to be a fun-filled 45 mins filled with stories and drawing! You’ll be entered into a prize draw simply for signing up. We hope you enjoy the event, and if you can’t catch it on the day, it’ll be available to watch in our Watch on Demand section soon after.
An infographic a day keeps the creativity at play – Day 7 – The Myths Around Creativity
Here is the seventh in a run of our new infographics that explore the place and nature of creativity in learning, teaching and improvement here in Scotland.
There are preconceptions around creativity that even we must fight to overcome when we speak about and develop creativity skills. This infographic tackles the most familiar ones and offers a new perspective.
Secondary teachers – £400 funding available for a creative project
Scottish Book Trust are offering a secondary teacher or librarian £400 and support to develop a creative project inspired by the books of Juno Dawson!
Juno will be appearing in our free digital Authors Live event on Thursday 9 June 2016 (it’s easy to sign your pupils up to watch). We’re looking for a teacher or librarian who would be interested in using Juno’s books and the event as the springboard for an inspiring project. Find out more details on our website!
