A convenient at a glance look at forthcoming exhibitions, productions and education projects in East Ayrshire.
Catalyst – Inspiring Arts Ideas for Teachers
Extremely well received motivational teacher training days in Glasgow and Edinburgh led by The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts.
Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh – 26th April
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow – 25th April
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Exploring the learning possibilities of a place near you (West and East Scotland Events)
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.
Glow Meet – Careers in Theatre Days
Careers in Theatre Day – Front of House and Box Office, 26 February 10.00 am http://bit.ly/156FnDY
In our first session find out how the operational side of the Traverse Theatre works with representatives from our Front of House and Box Office teams. This workshop will explain and explore how we go about creating the best possible experience for our customers/audiences before and after they have been to one of our shows.
Careers in Theatre Day – Technical Theatre, 26 February 12.00 pm http://bit.ly/Yol4vs
During this second event find out more about a day in the life of a theatre technician, with Graham Raith, Head of Electrics at the Festival and King’s Theatres. Including on stage visit to see Scottish Opera’s set of Massenet’s Werther.
Careers in Theatre Day – Acting and Directing, 26 February 2.30 pm http://bit.ly/136AZ9n
Careers in Theatre Day is the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, The Lyceum Theatre and The Traverse Theatre’s unique interactive one day careers event. During this session learn more about acting and directing in a Producing Theatre, whilst meeting some of the people involved in Time and the Conways. A great chance to find out how to make a career as an actor or director.
Scotland’s Still Singing, 27 February, 2.00 pm http://bit.ly/XghwPD
After our very successful events at the end of last year we are delighted to bring to you another opportunity to join in with a national singing lesson. Join Maeve Mackinnon and Innes Watson as they entertain us with Scots and Gaelic songs.
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.
(Glow login and password required)
Festival of Dangerous Ideas is back!
What’s your dangerous idea for education?
Dangerous Ed is back!!! Colleges Development Network is delighted to announce that the Festival of Dangerous Ideas will run again this year from 13-21 June 2013.
This year’s festival will be launched in Glasgow by world leading social entrepreneur Mel Young. Mel is President and CEO of the Homeless World Cup and Co-founder of The Big Issue in Scotland. Through his experience of working with the homeless, Mel has developed his own dangerous ideas for education.
There will be events happening throughout the week all over Scotland – co-created by people who are passionate about education. Events so far include:
- A walk on the wild side – an adventure through the wilderness – exploring and creating over the weekend
- Dangerous assessment – revolutionizing marking and assessment
- Creative and dangerous – conversations across the nation
- Game on – creating learning environments virtually
- Un-conference – you decide the agenda
- Online forums with dangerous dares and job swaps
- Wicked problems, creative solutions
- Resource-free – learn to engage learners for nothing
- Waste-free world – why recycling isn’t the answer
- Emporium of dangerous Ideas – trade your dangerous ideas.
Get involved and create your own dangerous event – register by completing the event submission form no later than 31 March 2013.
You can also join the Festival LinkedIn group, find us on Facebook and follow @Dangerous_Ed on Twitter.
Edinburgh International Science Festival at University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh family programme at the Museum, 2013
Discover science with real scientists from University of Edinburgh. Visit the Learning Centre for free, family-friendly drop-in activities, workshops and shows from 23 March – 6 April. Drop-in activities run 10am – 4.30pm daily and most are suitable for age 5 to adult. Click here for the full programme: Uni activities at Museum prog details 2013.
Drop-in activities
The Energy Challenge
Discover Our Earth
Pop-up Engineering
Exciting times for the Higgs Boson
The SCI-FUN Road-show
Bio-Discoveries
Secrets of Symmetry
Human and Animal Medicine
Workshops
Powerful Patterns
Intelligent Robots
Shows
The Chemistry Show
Dr Bunhead’s Poo and Goo Show
National Painting Competition for senior phase pupils
The Jolomo Schools Painting Award sponsored by Bank of Scotland will be run for the first time in school year 2012/13. Students from the senior phase at all Scottish secondary schools are invited to take part in the inaugural schools painting award. Students are asked to paint and submit their interpretation of the Scottish landscape. The winner will receive £500, with an additional £500 going to the winning schools Art Department. The winner will also have the opportunity to be mentored by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo). More information can be found by clicking on ‘HOW TO ENTER’ on the home page of The Jolomo Foundation website. www.jolomofoundation.org.
Forth Valley Creative Conversations – Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire
exploring | inspiring | challenging
You are invited to
(further information below, please share with colleagues and friends)
- Thursday 7th March | 4.30pm – 6.30pm | Stirling University: What is Creative Learning? Keir Bloomer
- Wednesday 17th April | 4.30pm – 6.30pm | Tolbooth, Stirling: How do we Capture and Measure Creativity? Paul Collard, Chief Executive, Creativity, Culture, Education
What is Creative Learning?
Keir Bloomer
Logie Lecture Theatre, Stirling Universtiy
Thursday 7th March 2013
4.30pm – 6.30pm (registration and refreshments from 4pm)
ALL WELCOME
Keir Bloomer will explore two distinct but linked ways of answering the question what is creative learning? Is it about approaches to learning that are creative? In other words, is it the creativity of the teacher that is most important? Alternatively, is the aim to develop the creativity of the learner? He will consider the connections between these ideas and the principles of constructivist pedagogy – the idea that making meaning is the central intellectual task in learning.
Keir Bloomer is an independent education consultant. He is also Chair of the Court of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; Chair of the Tapestry Partnership (a professional development organisation for teachers); Chair of the School Reform Commission, and Vice-convenor of Children in Scotland. He was Director of Education and later Chief Executive of Clackmannanshire Council, a post from which he retired in May 2007. As a member of the review group that wrote “A Curriculum for Excellence” he has been closely involved with curriculum reform and recently chaired the Higher Order Skills Excellence Group.
If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/332997
Also see the website: www.forthvalleycreativelearning.wordpress.com
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How do we capture and measure creativity?
Paul Collard
Chief Executive, Creativity, Culture and Education
4.30pm – 6.30pm (registration and refreshments from 4pm)
Tolbooth Arts Venue, Stirling
ALL WELCOME
Increasing attention is being given to developing the creativity of children and young people. From Japan to Chile, within Europe and across the US this has become a major preoccupation of educators. But how do you know what creativity looks like, and can you tell if it is being developed? To support their work CCE commissioned extensive research into the definition and measurement of creativity and trialled numerous approaches in schools. In this presentation Paul Collard will provide a constructive and practical guide to identifying creativity in the classroom to enable teachers and creative practitioners to inspire children and young people.
If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/333056
Also see the website: www.forthvalleycreativelearning.wordpress.com
For further information contact: creativelearning@stirling.gov.uk
Further conversations with Suzanne Zeedyk (1st May in Falkirk – www.brownpapertickets.com/event/333091) and Professor Brian Boyd (9th May in Clackmannanshire – www.brownpapertickets.com/event/333079) to be announced soon.
Please see the website for further information www.forthvalleycreativelearning.wordpress.com
100 pupil flashmob in Central Station mark Youth Olympics hopes
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today shortlisted Glasgow in the race to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games (YOG), praising the city’s record of hosting international sporting events including the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 2018 YOG Working Group report stated that Glasgow’s Bid would also build on the success of the London 2012 Olympic Games creating a powerful and impactful YOG, appealing to athletes and young people across the globe, while representing minimal risk to the IOC.
Glasgow will join two other cities on the shortlist for the next stage of the process which will see IOC members vote for the winning Candidate City in July.
More than 100 young people from Denny High School gathered in Central Station, the city’s main rail terminal, for a contemporary dance flashmob to celebrate the news, calling on the UK public to back the Bid to bring the 2018 YOG toGlasgow. The celebration event reflected the passion for sport the Olympic family can expect if the Games come to Glasgow.
http://www.glasgow2018.com/media-centre/latest-press-release/
First Minister blog – Scots space mission ready for launch
The First Minister says, ‘Last week I was delighted to meet Scottish scientists and research teams who have been doing important work to help us understand the world and the universe. First, I met Professor Peter Higgs, one of the most famous figures in Scottish science. Prof Higgs famously developed a theory into the basic building blocks of the universe and a particle that was named the ‘Higgs boson’, while working at the University of Edinburgh in the 1960s. Last year researchers at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland confirmed the discovery of a previously-unknown boson whose behaviour so far has been consistent with the ‘Higgs boson’.
http://engageforeducation.org/2013/02/scots-space-mission-ready-for-launch/
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2013/02/science03022013
To recognise Prof Higgs’ achievements and help inspire a new generation of scientists among today’s school pupils around Scotland, we have launched an annual Higgs Prize. This will give outstanding young school physicists the chance to win a trip to the CERN facility, where work continues on researching the Higgs particle.’
