CfE and the Glasgow International Festival Conference for Teachers

Sat 28th April 2012

Curriculum for Excellence and the GI Festival – An NSEAD Conference for Teachers

Artist Teacher Programme, School of Education, University of the West of Scotland

Location: Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Gasgow G41 2PE

10.30am – 6pm

In partnership with The National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) Artist Teacher Programme, this event is designed for primary and secondary teachers of art, craft and design.  Presentations during the event will focus upon the experiences and outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence and will include presentations from Sheila Page HMIe\Education Scotland on Creativity in the art and design curriculum, the staff and young artists of Room 13 from two Fort William primary schools will look at contemporary art and how it helps raise contemporary issues in the classroom and others in the field of arts education in Scotland and beyond including Paul Dash, Goldsmiths, Graham Jeffery, Diarmuid McAuliffe and Katarzyna Kosmala from UWS. The GI artist Graham Fagen will also contribute to the event.

Venue Website
http://www.nsead.org/cpd/conferences.aspx
Admission Fee

Day Conference and Festival Tour £45 – booking via the NSEAD website

Scottish Youth Parliament film competition on knife crime

Young people from West Dunbartonshire’s Y Sort it group will be taking their anti knife-crime message to a national competition, after impressing local school pupils with their short film on the consequences of carrying a knife.
Knife crime is a significant issue in many parts of Scotland. The Scottish Youth Parliament and the Scottish Government’s Community Safety Unit have worked together to deliver We-CTV, a project where young people use production events to learn the facts about knife crime and produce short films to spread the message to their peers.  The films are then entered into a competition.

The Early Intervention Team from West Dunbartonshire Council, who are local leads for the project, invited a number of local youth groups to take part.  Young people aged 12 – 18 years who attend the Tullochan Trust, Y Sort it and the Pulse youth activities all entered the local heat of the competition. The judges were primary 7 pupils from St Michael’s Primary School, Castlehill, who chose the Y Sort-it entry as the local winner.

Ronnie Harper, Early Intervention Officer at West Dunbartonshire Council said: “All three local entries were of a very high standard, but there can only be one winner and I am delighted that the Y Sort it group will now have the chance to showcase their talents at a national level. Knife crime is a very serious issue and the We-CTV project is an excellent way to get the message out to young people across the country that carrying a knife is never acceptable. I am confident that they can win and do West Dunbartonshire proud.”

The Y Sort-it group will now go on to compete in a national competition.  All competitors will attend a national event this week (22 March) at Hampden Stadium, where they will meet experts in knife crime and advertising, and be given a brief to create a new short film by the end of April.

The Scottish Youth Parliament will then host all of the competing films on their websitewww.syp.org.uk/wectv for a national public vote. The votes will be used to produce a shortlist of three and the overall winner will be chosen by a judging panel.

The results will be announced at an awards night at Oran Mor, Glasgow on May 31st. All ten regional winners will have their films premiered at the awards night.

Anti-sectarianism Song written and recorded by Primary School Choir


Studio time for St Anne’s Song http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/St+Annes+song.htm



Glasgow City Council reports that St Anne’s Primary School choir, recent recipients of the Ian Barrie Certificate at the Glasgow Music Festival for the second year running, have worked with a local song writer and penned the lyrics and melody for their song that tackles the issues of sectarianism, territorialism and gangs. Their song has been recorded at a local recording studio. The children hope that their song will be heard in their community and across the city.

Showcase your Creativity at this year’s SLF

Mark your diary for SLF 2012

SLF 2012 will be held on
Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 September 2012 in the SECC, Glasgow.

The theme for SLF 2012 is Creative Learning….Creative Thinking.

The Scottish Learning Festival 2012 will offer practitioners opportunities to learn more about the importance of creative skills for themselves and for their learners.  SLF 2012 will enable practitioners to develop skills and expertise to support creative learning and teaching across the curriculum through sharing information, highlighting innovation and showcasing best practice. SLF 2012 also provides continuing professional learning opportunities in line with recommendations set out in Teaching Scotland’s Future.

Call for Participation – submit your proposals by Friday 30 March

The Call for Participation is now open and full details of the theme along with an online submission form are available on the
SLF website <http://newsletters-ltscotland.org.uk/LQE-QHIV-3GU5HR-A4YQR-1/c.aspx> .

Young Engineers Club of the Year 2012

Alness Academy team becomes Young Engineers Club of the Year 2012
http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2012/March/2012-03-19-06.htm

An all-girl team of S3 pupils from Alness Academy have now added the UK Young Engineers Club of the Year 2012 award to their Scottish Science and Engineering Club of the Year 2011 award following their success at scooping the top team prize at the “Big Bang” Science and Engineering event held at Birmingham on 15 – 17 March.

Knitting Mania

Young knitters from St Joseph’s primary in Busby who, have taken part in a project called Knitting Mania, presented their hand knitted blankets to Tracy Gilmour of Alzheimer Scotland (Argyll and Clyde) at Hawthorne Court sheltered housing complex in Clarkston recently.
Alzheimer Scotland attempting to beat the current world record for the largest hand knitted (non crochet) blanket. The current record stands at 557.34 squared metres and is held by The Ladies of Hatfield Christian Church in South Africa.

http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=423&id=3492

Designers – a new approach to Post-16 Education

Event for headteachers – Post-16 Education: Designing the Learner Journey
21 March, Glasgow
http://designforgov.eventbrite.com/

In the coming months, the Scottish Government will make important decisions about the future of post-16 learning in Scotland and the system of training and skills support that is available to young people.

This project has been commissioned by the Scottish Government, but it makes use of techniques not traditionally employed by Government. At its heart is an approach borrowed from designers: using tools and techniques that are well tested in other fields, but used more rarely in the redesign of public services.

At this expert day on 21 March Snook, a service design and social innovation outfit in Glasgow will present their synthesis of the research conducted with students from the University of the West of Scotland, Paisley and Cardonald College. Sarah Drummond, Director of Design at Snook, will present an overview of the design process and how Snook use this to turn insight into idea.

Funding for creative ways of improving language teaching and learning


The British Academy is offering two awards of £4000 specifically for Scottish schools that want to develop creative ways of improving language teaching and learning. It could go towards helping you to work with your local primary schools, take forward business links, or develop a new course.

<https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2012/03/02/money-for-language-departments-and-projects-in-scotland-invitation-to-apply-for-new-award/>

Wanted! Creative teachers and group workers!

Are you creative in the classroom? Do you empower creativity in your young people?
Education Scotland is looking for teachers and CLD staff who use creativity in their work to speak up and share their creative learning and teaching approaches with the rest of Scotland through a series of very short online film clips.

Creativity in its purest sense involves generating original ideas that have value and crosses ALL areas of the curriculum (not just the arts) and we are looking for examples from subjects as diverse as PE, Languages and Maths. It could be the young people learning creative skills or an approach to lesson planning that is particularly creative. What creativity might involve can be found here: http://glo.li/xGyO32

Here are the questions we would like to put to you:

• What is creativity (to you)?

• Why be creative in your teaching?

• What happens when the young learners are engaged in a creative activity?

• What did you and your young learners do that was creative?
You might explain an example of what creativity looks like in your classroom or group.
You might detail day-to-day creative approaches or else explain a specific project, topic or development.
How did this specifically benefit you and the young people?

You will be filmed by a professional film company (they really put you at your ease) who will come to you, fit around your timetable, and the whole process of setting up and filming will take less than half an hour. Ultimately we are capturing just 3 minutes of glorious quality footage from you that will be shared through the Creativity Portal. This is a great opportunity to showcase your creativity to a national audience.

The filming will be arranged to suit you some time in the next three weeks.

It takes moments to offer your experience or suggest a colleague who you think would fit the bill:
Go to: http://glo.li/z0Mi3s
Email: Stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk
Phone: 0141 282 5194

News, opportunities, research and strategy relating to creative teaching and learning in Scotland

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