Category Archives: CfE Subjects & Themes

CPD, Outdoor Learning

Creativity and Learning in the Wild

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Tuesday 26 February 2013

10:00 – 16:00

The Falcon Education Centre, Aviemore

This active, outdoor event aims to inspire lecturers to work creatively out of doors, developing interdisciplinary skills with creative approaches.

The event will also offer an opportunity to develop an understanding of the John Muir Award and how this can be used to enhance learners’ skill and qualifications. A major feature of the day will be designing and carrying out activities including shelter building, generating ideas of how to use this as potential evidence for assessment.

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Assessment, Drama, Glow, Music, Social Studies

Glow TV events coming up

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Assessment Community – 10 Key Assessment Messages, 16 January 2013, 8.20 am, http://glo.li/WoBjb1

Join the Education Scotland Assessment Team for a series of Glow Meets taking place in the Assessment Community. This first early bird event looks at the 10 key assessment messages and will be hosted by Catherine Lawson from the team.

NB: This same event will also run on Thursday 17 January at 3.45 pm


Paper Creativity Challenge – Prezi, 18 January, 9.30 am http://glo.li/11umxY7

This Glow Meet is one in a series which is taking place over the next few weeks.

Prezi is a large blank sheet of digital paper which can be edited easily to share beautiful interactive presentations. This Glow Meet will share how to create an education account with Prezi.  Prezi basics and then some ideas for using prezi for storytelling.

Paper Creativity Challenge – Make a Book with an Artist, 21 January, 11.00 amhttp://glo.li/Vkl0Q1

During this Glow TV session the artist will demonstrate three examples of making books, first is the five minute note book made from just one piece of paper, the second is the simple concertina folded book and lastly a basic hand sewn note book.

Paper Creativity Challenge – Meerkat Mail, 22 January, 11.00 am http://glo.li/Vpe5Fh

Join Margo Kerr, Early Years Development Officer in West Lothian to listen to the wonderful story of Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett and find out about this week’s creativity challenge. We know you can do it!!

Assessment Community – What is the NAR? 22 January 2013, 8.20 am,  http://glo.li/WoCvuW

Join the Education Scotland Assessment Team for a series of Glow Meets taking place in the Assessment Community.

This early bird event is entitled ‘What is the NAR? and will be hosted by Jem Anderson from the team.

NB: This same event will also run on Thursday 24 January at 3.45 pm

Holocaust Memorial Day – Scotland 2013 – Arts Event

23 January, 2 pm, http://glo.li/RzCc1t

Join us for this first event for Holocaust Memorial Day – Scotland 2013, where young people from across Scotland interpret HMD 2013 theme Communities Together Build a Bridge through the arts in film, drama, song and more.

Burns bash http://blogs.educationscotland.gov.uk/glowscotland/2013/01/16/burns-bash/

Join us for our celebration of the birth of Burns and the life and work of our famous bard on Friday 25 January at 9.30 am. This year we want you to be able to share what you have been doing in your schools and classrooms so join us for our Burns Bash.

If you would like to share your Scottish poems, dances or art work then make sure that you are with us that day to let other schools see what you have been doing – remember we always need an audience too so if you don’t want to perform then please just join us anyway.

For full details of Glow TV events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.

(Glow log-in and password required).

CLN News, Drama, East Dunbartonshire

S3 female pupils create performance for early years pupils

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As part of East Dunbartonshire’s Creative Learning Network programme, Visible Fictions Theatre Company worked with a group of S3 female pupils over a period of 3 months at the end of 2012 to create a performance for early years The Christmas Bee

“It’s the night before Christmas and everyone is full of yuletide joy and merriness – well almost everyone.  When three misbehaving youngsters go a step too far it’s time for some Christmas magic to intervene and show them the error of their ways.  These young divas will never look at a pot of honey the same way again!!!

This immersive theatrical adventure combines classic storytelling with interactive play.  It has all the components of a feel good night out at the theatre and more.”

The Performance was delivered to an audience of 4 local nursery schools over two days – 19th and 20th of December 2012 at Kilmardinny Arts Centre Bearsden and was featured in a press article by the Milngavie and Bearsden Herald.

The Creative Learning Network in East Dunbartonshire aims to provide sustainable support mechanisms and enhancement of Network infrastructure for the engagement of pupils and staff in training, workshops and events.

The Network brings together an evolving collective of people who will develop a common language for Creative Learning by sharing experiences, ideas, skills and knowledge with one another through creative and cultural participation.

Art and Design, Careers and Pathways, Events

Meet the Artist events at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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Dewar Arts Award – Meet the Artist Events at the Botanics – Saturday 19 January and Saturday 23 February

The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh is holding two ‘Meet the Artist’ events in connection with its ‘Roots to Shoots’ exhibition. The events feature successful Scottish artists who have forged careers in the arts and provide an opportunity for young people interested in a career in the arts to find out more.

Organised in connection to the ‘Roots to Shoots’ exhibition currently on display in the John Hope Gateway at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, these events offer the opportunity to meet artists who have received a Dewar Arts Award (www.dewarawards.org).

In the first session, on Saturday 19 January, the jeweller Jonathan Boyd will be interviewed by the novelist Jenni Fagan. In the second, on Saturday 23 February, the painter Caroline Walker will be interviewed by curator Eve Smith.

For further information about the artists taking part in each event, please view the PDFs: Meet the Artist Events at the Botanics – Dewar Arts Awards

and visit

http://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/event-details/2565

http://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/event-details/2566

For further information about the ‘Roots to Shoots’ exhibition, please visit http://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/event-details/2603

The events are free; please email Lauren Bick at events@rbge.org.uk to book your place in advance.

Music

Extra £1 million for musical instruments

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Scottish schools will be provided with an additional £1 million to buy musical instruments for their pupils, the Scottish Government has announced. The move has been made by Minister for Learning Alasdair Allan who has also formed a new group to address the issue of how music tuition is delivered, including the question of charges for pupils sitting SQA music exams. Read more at the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/12/moneyformusic16122012

Art and Design, CfE, Drama, Education News

New web based course materials for National 4 and National 5

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Education Scotland has published the first tranche of web based course materials to support National 4 and National 5 qualifications. The materials have been designed to help teachers and others with the delivery of programmes of learning within the new qualifications framework.

Materials now available are:

Drama for National 4 and National 5
Fashion and Textile Technology for National 4 and National 5
Geography for  National 4 and National 5
Modern Studies for National 4 and National 5
RMPS for National 4 and National 5
Practical Cake Craft for  National 5
Health and Food Technology for National 4 and National 5

View the new materials on Education Scotland’s website:

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/nationalqualifications/coursematerials/index.asp

ES has been working very closely with ADES to co-ordinate the development and publication of exemplar course materials across the full range of National 4 and National 5 qualifications and further materials will publish over the coming months.

Dance

Dance Sector Review

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Creative Scotland has published a review of the dance sector in Scotland. The review maps the huge developments in dance over the past 15 years but also highlights the vulnerabilities and gaps.

To find out more about the review, visit the Creative Scotland website.

To download the Executive Summary, full report and additional appendices, click on the following links:

Dance Sector Review – Executive Summary

Dance Sector Review – Report

Appendix 5 – Digest of Statistics

Appendix 6 – Report on the Dance Review Workshops