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| Our friends at The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland are currently offering £2.50 tickets for young people under 25. Check out the upcoming dates and where to book –
NYOS Symphony Orchestra Glasgow & Dundee Concerts Tue 7 April – City Halls, Glasgow – Book Now Wed 8 April – Caird Hall, Dundee – Book Now
Senior Orchestra 2015 Perth Concert Mon 13 April – Perth Concert Hall – Book Now |
The Google Science Fair is a global online science and technology competition open to individuals and teams from ages 13 to 18. Find out what you can win, and learn more about the people involved with the competition.
It’s an exciting day for Big Big Sing: new songs, our annual report and the launch of the Choir Doctor! We can’t wait to tell you all about it…
http://www.bigbigsing.org/songbook/
We’ve just added 5 new songs to the Big Big Songbook, and we’re sure you’re going to love them. These new songs celebrate iconic female singers and songwriters and with gospel to folk, world, pop and roots there’s something for everyone. Listen (and sing along) here.
ANNUAL REPORT Our annual report is up online. We’ve told the story of our first Big Big year and packed it full of wonderful photos and quotes from Big Big singers – take a look, you may spot yourself! We’ve also included information on an innovative research project we’ve got planned, based on our belief in the power of singing to change lives. View it here.
CHOIR DOCTOR The Choir Doctor a national educational initiative, specially designed by us to help you keep your community choirs healthy and happy. Over the next 6 months we’ll be releasing lots of fab resources for you to access online for free but we need YOUR help to make them. We’re looking for 4 choirs to star in films alongside our Choir Doctors. Interested? Sign up here.
We’re looking forward to singing the new songs with you at our upcoming events, next up – London’s Southbank Centre on 5 April. And it’s FREE! Don’t forget to get your tickets for Big Big Sing Days at: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 16 May Edinburgh Usher Hall, 17 May Aberdeen Music Hall, 30 May Dundee Caird Hall, 31 May
See you there, Big Big Sing Team
Office Surfing The Dangerous Idea …
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in a very different environment from your usual workplace? Would you like to try it out and become an office surfer? Would you like your organisation to Host and office surf? Would you like to meet people from other professions and sectors? What? … Spend some time in a different work environment, doing your work or work as a host, welcoming a surfer to experience your working environment. Why? …
Two reasons (among many!):
Benefits?
As a Surfer you get:
As a Host you get:
You both get and interesting and unexpected connection.
The Emporium of Dangerous Ideas gets:
Results of the office surf will be shown at the Emporium Finale in an exhibition of creative change. This will take place on Friday 19 June 2015 view programme and book online. If this sounds like a Dangerous Idea that you would like to be a part of, please contact Dawn Brooks dawn.brooks@cdn.ac.uk for more information on how to take part. Any responses should be in by Thursday 30 April 2015.
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The Learning Through Exhibitions series helps schools and community groups to explore exhibitions before, during and after a visit to The Fruitmarket Gallery. They can also be used for arts activities at any time alongside our other resources documenting the exhibition. The series suggests ways to think with and through art and be inspired to make it. Creative Challenges are open-ended and adaptable to any age group.
Forth Valley Creative Learning’s second Creative
Conversation for 2015 is happening tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March,
4.30pm – 6.30pm.
There are still a few places remaining if you would like to come along
or if any staff are interested in attending.
Design Thinking – Solving Problems and Challenges using Creative
Approaches
Led by Dr Scott Sherwood – Live Think Design
Makers Gallery and Bistro, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
Wednesday 18th March 2015
4.30pm – 6.30pm
Doors open at 4pm for refreshments and registration and time after for
networking and refreshments until 7pm
All welcome.
After February’s sold out conversation exploring De Bono’s lateral
thinking theories we continue our focus on creative problem solving.
We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Scott Sherwood who will lead a
participative and engaging 2 hour workshop sharing some tools and
exercises you can use to consider new thinking about existing issues in
school, community or work.
This session will introduce design thinking, a rigorous creative
process that enables individuals and organisations to identify and
articulate the challenges they face, while also enabling them to create
feasible and viable solutions. Using design thinking tools and
methodologies, individuals and organisations are able to develop empathy
for the people they are designing for (i.e. pupils, students, teachers,
lecturers, staff etc), challenge their own assumptions and understand
their underlying motivations.
Dr Scott Sherwood is a widely published academic and has led
organisational change initiatives, including the innovation programme in
the Technology Strategy Board’s £24 million Future City Demonstrator.
This workshops is open to head teachers, teachers, SLA’s, education
officers, early year’s educators, lecturers (FE and HE), students,
arts development officers, CLD officers, youth workers, community
workers etc. This workshop would also be of interest to creative
practitioners working in a learning / community context. All welcome.
If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1299170
Forth Valley Creative Learning is a collaboration between Education in
Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire, creating together opportunities
to explore creativity and creative learning.
Kind Regards
Clare
Clare Hoare
Senior Practitioner (Creative Learning)
Education
Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils
Teith House
Kerse Road
Stirling
FK7 7QA
Mon – Wed: Tel: 01786 274000 (Tolbooth)
Thurs – Fri: Tel: 01786 233226 (Teith House)
Mobile: 07876 877004
Email: hoarec@stirling.gov.uk
The aims of the Creative Learning programme and Forth Valley Creative
Learning are to support, increase and enhance participation in a wide
range of cultural and creative learning activities both within and out
of schools through the development and support of imaginative projects,
programmes and activities in collaboration with schools, creative
practitioners, local and national arts organisations and other partners
such as Creative Scotland and Education Scotland.
Forth Valley Creative Learning network is open to anyone with an
interest in creative learning for children and young people. In
partnership with Falkirk Council Education we host a number of talks and
professional development opportunities during the year. If you would
like to find out more or join our mailing list please email
Friday 6 March is the date for final entries for the John Byrne national drawing competition to arrive at Education Scotland offices in either Dundee or Glasgow. We have had an excellent response from schools so far but there are still four days to go until the competition ends!
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2015/03/02/john-byrne-drawing-competition-update/
Day of Dance – Delivering a high quality Dance experience in a 21st century curriculum, Saturday 21 March 2015, Denny High School, Falkirk
This is a free event, open to teaching staff across all sectors. This will be of particular interest to schools who have started their learning journey through dance and wish to develop their confidence and competence in a variety of learning contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to attend a variety of practical workshops delivered by teachers. These workshops will showcase innovative learning approaches in dance and will demonstrate how these can be incorporated into practice.
Sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8H2GX2Q
Shakespeare Schools Festival is the UK’s largest youth drama festival, we work with over 1000 schools and 140 theatres across the country, and we hope you will join us this Autumn to make the 2015 Festival the biggest and best yet!
What is Shakespeare Schools Festival?
SSF is a charity that gives primary, secondary and special schools across the UK the opportunity to perform a 30 minute abridged Shakespeare play on a local, professional stage, alongside other local schools. We provide the training, resources and structure that enables you to direct a cast of up to 30 students to perform your chosen play in a non-competitive, celebratory night of Shakespeare in the Autumn term. For more detailed information please visit www.ssf.uk.com/howitworks.
Here is the full information leaflet: Info for Scottish schools – updated
This year in Scotland we will host the Festival at the following theatres, the Platform Theatre in Glasgow, The Church Hill Theatre in Edinburgh, Eden Court in Inverness, The Lochgelly Centre in Fife, Falkirk Town Hall and ACT Aberdeen. The performances will be in November, with additional training dates earlier in the year.
Spaces are limited, so do contact us via the details below as soon as you can if you are interested in hearing more!
Jenny Rush-Cooper
jenny.rushcooper@ssf.uk.com
020 7601 1933
The European Schoolnet Academy is happy to announce that its Spring courses of 2015 are now open for enrollment. Join us on two exciting MOOCs this April, designed by teachers for teachers.
The first course to launch on the 13th April is the Creative use of Tablets in Schools course. Join us on this exciting learning journey that aims to guide teachers in their use of tablets and inspires them to use tablets to foster innovative teaching and learning. In 4 modules it gives a general introduction to the use of tablets in schools and discusses how tablets can support new learning approaches such as content creation, collaborative learning, personalized learning and flipped classroom. You can enroll on the course here: http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/web/tablets-in-schools. If you use social media, please also join the course Facebook group and help us spread news about the course via Twitter using the course hashtag #tabletscourse.
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