The calendar of specific events running from June 11th – 15th is now available:

Monday 11 June 2012

• Shifting the Axis – Festival Launch
  National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
• Philosophy Cafe – Is Education Dangerous?
  The Captain’s Bar, Edinburgh

Tuesday 12 June 2012

• Let’s Trust Again! Trusting Time is Here
  Scotland’s Colleges, Stirling
• Flippin’ Dangerous
  Webinar
• Creativity, Art and Education
  The Arches, Glasgow

Wednesday 13 June 2012

• Edible Edinburgh – Breakfast at the Botanics
  Demonstration Garden, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• Is it Dangerous to be Curious?
  St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow
• Unleashing Autonomy through The Energy for Learning Programme
  Scotland’s Colleges, Stirling

Thursday 14 June 2012

• Walking the Teaching Tightrope – So You Think You Can Teach?
  Scotland’s Colleges, Stirling
• Are Pirates Killing Creativity?
  City of Glasgow College
• The Enterprising Mindset
  Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa, Dundee
• Education for Sale
  St Modans High School, Stirling
• Meditation: A Journey into Inner Space
  Kagyu Samye Dzong, Edinburgh
• Cleikum Club
  Stravaigin, Glasgow
• Philosophy Cafe – Muse at the Mews
  Mews Coffee Shop, Glasgow

Friday 15 June 2012

• Emporium of Dangerous Ideas
  The Merchants Hall, Edinburgh

May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm

The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.

The event will highlight just how imaginatively schools and teachers are already embedding creativity into their daily work, often in partnership with external organisations.

Teachers and senior managers in schools and the education sector will be able to draw on a range of good practice in promoting creative learning and improving learners’ creative skills within all subjects. The day is designed to:

• Explore what is meant by ‘Creativity skills for learning, life and work’
• Experience new and exciting approaches to motivating children to learn
• Discover different approaches taken to working with professionals and partners in delivering creative learning experiences.
• Find out about the resources and networks available to support creative teaching and learning

Participants will have the opportunity to explore and exchange innovative practices, and the practical outcomes of the day will be captured to complement and influence Scottish Government policy in promoting creative education practices.

The event also marks the launch of the new look Creativity Portal, www.creativityportal.org.uk, which includes a fantastic set of creative films specifically designed to support creative teaching and learning, and announces a new phase of development which opens up the Portal to all creative partners and freelancers who work with schools. The Creative Learning Networks (CLNs) Showreel film and case studies will also be launched at the event, illustrating the benefits of getting involved and showing the kind of activities through which the networks are building Scotland’s creative capacity.

The day will be introduced by Ruth Wishart, Chair of the Scottish Government’s Creative Education Group.

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