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TESS features Creativity

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Creativity is the central theme running through September’s edition of TESS. Click on the following titles to view each article:

‘Creative sparks can fire up the curriculum’

Editor Gillian MacDonald highlights projects which are stimulating the imagination and encouraging new thinking in schools and local authorities.

Joan Parr

Joan Parr, portfolio manager for education, learning and young people, Creative Scotland is featured, talking about the national drive for creativity across learning.

‘Step Forth into the Creativity Portal’

The new-look Creativity Portal is reviewed, including an overview of its new features and feedback from teachers using the site.

‘Away with the Fairies’

Project Dream, is a collaboration between City of Edinburgh’s Arts and Learning Team, the Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh schools in which teachers and pupils are coming off timetable to immerse themselves in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Artists, Careers and Pathways, CLN News, Moray

Moray CLN launches Artist Mentoring Programme 2012-13

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On Thursday 20 September, Moray  Creative Learning Network is launching its second Artist Mentoring Programme, a tailor made programme of training and support to help art school graduates based in Moray to kick start their careers in the creative learning sector.

The programme is facilitated by  Moray Art Centre and mentoring is provided by CLN members – artists, teachers and creative learning practitioners.

To find out more about the programme, visit Moray Art Centre’s website or download this document: MCLN Artist Mentoring Programme

Vist Moray CLN’s blog here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/my/CreativeLearning/

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, CLN News, Dumfries and Galloway, Edinburgh, Events, Fife, Highland, NCLN, Scottish Borders, Stirling

National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012

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National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012

The National Creative Learning Network (NCLN) is a community of practice which has a leadership role in championing and advocating creativity in both formal and informal learning contexts. The Network is well represented at this year’s SLF, with members from local authorities across Scotland leading workshops and seminars throughout the two days of the festival.

Seminar Programme

Find out about the benefits of being involved in a Creative Learning Network at Fife’s CLN Showcase seminar, or find out what being creative means to Edinburgh’s young apprentices.

  • Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers (Edinburgh)
  • Showcasing Fife’s Creative Learning Network (Fife)
  • What’s the Past got to do with us? (Aberdeenshire)

Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme

Education Showcase

The Showcase programme features demonstrations, experiments, drama and music making with NCLN contributions from a number of authorities:

  • Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Learning: The Aberdeen Arts Across Learning Festival (Aberdeen City)
  • Inspiring Creativity, Highland’s Creativity Conference (Highland)
  • Supporting Drama through Literacy – Learners with Mild to Severe and Complex Needs (Dumfries & Galloway)
  • Challenging Creativity Creatively (Edinburgh)
  • The Big Drum Experiment (Scottish Borders)
  • Little Rabbit: drama for early years (Angus)
  • Teachers Realising their Creative Potential (Aberdeen City)
  • Write a Song in 30 Minutes (Stirling)

To view the full Education Showcase programme click here

The NCLN consists of the the group of coordinators who lead each local authority’s Creative Learning Network. Visit the Creativity Portal to find out who your local Creative Learning Network contact is: http://bit.ly/Creative_Learning_Contacts

Find out more about the Creative Learning Networks by watching one of the short films on the Creativity Portal: http://bit.ly/CLN_Creativity_Portal

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NCLN at SLF 2012

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Members of the NCLN are contributing to this year’s Scottish Learning Festival – ‘Creative Learning…Creative Thinking’ – in a number of ways, whether presenting on creative initiatives or sharing Creative Learning Network news. The programme includes the following:

Seminar Programme

Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers – Modern Apprentices and Student Councillor, Edinburgh

Showcasing Fife’s Creative Learning Network ­– Michelle Sweeney, Fife

What’s the Past got to do with us? – David Atherton, Aberdeenshire

Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme

Education Showcase

Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Learning: The Aberdeen Arts Across Learning Festival – Jacky Hardare, Aberdeen City

Inspiring Creativity – Amy McLeod, Highland

Supporting Drama through Literacy – Learners with Mild to Severe and Complex Needs – Lesley Sloan, Dumfries & Galloway

Challenging Creativity Creatively – Linda Lees, Edinburgh

The Big Drum Experiment ­– Susanne Batchelor, Scottish Borders

Little Rabbit – Pauline Meikleham, Angus

Teachers Realising their Creative Potential – Jacky Hardacre, Aberdeen

Write a Song in 30 Minutes – Marco Rea, Stirling

To view the full Education Showcase programme click here

CLN News, Local Authorities, Scottish Borders, Self Evaluation

Creative Teviot & Liddesdale

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As part of the Scottish Borders 2011-12 CLN fund we held a ‘Creativity’ day with Cultural Ambassadors, partners and pupils in the Teviot and Liddesdale Learning Community (Hawick area).

The event included three main themes

  • An evaluation of creative projects in the previous year
  • The role of the CLN, Cultural Ambassadors and partners
  • Future plans for championing creative learning across the learning community

The discussions from the day were captured in the following animation

http://vimeo.com/39619613

During the morning Simone Russell gave an animation workshop to S2 pupils from Hawick High School. Simone and the pupils then worked with the rest of the group to animate their conversations.

Jane Gaze (Historic Scotland), Judith Murray (Cultural Ambassador, Hawick High School) and S2 pupils

CLN News, Dumfries and Galloway

Let’s Get BLOGGING!

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As part of the second phase of the Creative Learning Network in Dumfries & Galloway, we have developed a public BLOG which allows us to share opportunities and events for staff and pupils, but on a platform that parents, and other partners can also engage with.  The BLOG can be accessed at:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/CreativeLearningNetworksinDG/

We hope to continue to develop this BLOG and encourage staff to post with requests for partners to work with them and their pupils in school which will allow relationships to strengthen between the education and creative and cultural sector.

Have a look at the BLOG and feel free to send us your comments or even leave a comment on any of the posts you can see!

We are planning a week of partnership engagement sessions w/b 27th Feb and we will share the outcomes of these on the BLOG, so keep an eye out to see what our future plans are.

CLN News, East Lothian, Glow, Interdisciplinary Learning, Learning Exchange, Partnerships

Mining history for great ideas

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East Lothian has used some of its Creative Learning Networks funding to support a number of  Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. One of these KTPs has inspired a partnership project between local primary schools and Prestongrange mining museum. Pupils from two schools designed new products to solve some of the dangerous problems miners face and presented their ideas to each other in a Dragon’s Den style Glow Meet. To find out more, read Douglas Blane’s article in TESS.

Click here to find out more about East Lothian’s Creative Learning Network

CLN News, Local Authorities, Shetland

Shetland CLN – creative learning through dance and visual arts

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The Creative Learning Network is the opportunity for artists, school staff and community based staff to come together for inspiration on new creative learning experiences to inform their practice. These fun sessions have a bit of chat but also offer hands on practical exercises. All welcome.

The  session held in partnership with Shetland Arts is on 28 November at Bonhoga Gallery. It will give everyone a chance to hear from an artist featured in the current exhibition and dancer John Morris who has put together a dance unit for non dance teachers. There will also be a chance to make something for Christmas with artist Chloe Garrick and have an exclusive look at the Christmas Exhibition. A fun informal creative learning opportunity!

Title: Cold Hands Warm Heart
Date:28 November
Place: Bonhoga Gallery
Time: 4.30-6.30
Refreshments; tea, coffee,treats
Activity: make something for christmas
Speakers: Artist from exhibition, John Morris dancer & Clair Aldington, Shetland Arts
Cost: FREE
How to book: contact   Noelle Henderson, Creative Links Officer, Children’s Services Noelle.henderson@shetland.gov.uk 01595 744013