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Glow TV events coming up

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).

Recognition of Prior Learning and Looked After Young People final report and research briefing

Education Scotland and the Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland (CELCIS) have published a report and research briefing on the Recognition of Prior Learning and looked-after young people.  The work was commissioned by Education Scotland, and included a pilot project and a research evaluation which CELCIS carried out between January and June 2012.

Download the report here: http://glo.li/ZZjdVf

CfE Briefing 7: Progression from the Broad General Education to the Senior Phase: Part 2

This new briefing provides advice for practitioners and can also be used to inform partners, learners and their parents in taking forward Curriculum for Excellence. This latest addition to the series explores the importance of learning in the senior phase. It builds on the information in CfE Briefing 1: Broad General Education in the secondary school and CfE Briefing 6: Progression from the Broad General Education to the Senior Phase: Part 1.

CfE Briefing 7

Calderglen High School – Excellent example of CfE

Inspectors find excellent example of Curriculum for Excellence implementation at Calderglen High School

Calderglen High School in East Kilbride has become the first secondary school in Scotland to have its curriculum evaluated as ‘excellent’ by inspectors since the issue of updated guidelines by Education Scotland which reflect the increased expectations now applying as a result of the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence up to S3.  The school was inspected in November 2012.

The inspection of Calderglen found the following key strengths:

  • The invaluable contribution of partnerships and innovation.
  • The school’s holistic approach to health and wellbeing.
  • The impact of leadership at all levels across the school.
  • The outstanding leadership of the headteacher.
  • A community which works together to inspire learners and shape their future.

Tony McDaid, Headteacher, said ‘As a school community, we are delighted with such a highly positive report. We believe it reflects the commitment, drive and creative approaches which are pursued to achieve the very best for all of our pupils.’

For further information click on the following link:

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/inspectionandreview/reports/irpressreleases/irprcalderglenhighschool191212.asp

Launch of the Scottish Education Awards

The Scottish Education Awards were launched on Monday 3 December by Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.  The awards celebrate the hard work and success in Scottish education.  They recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people and showcase the valuable work and innovation in learning environments across Scotland.

Nominations for the 2013 awards can be submitted from now until 22 February 2013.  Please circulate and share this information with your networks.  For more information visit the Scottish Education Awards website.

New web based course materials for National 4 and National 5

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.

Opening up the Future

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2012/pressreleases/december/openingupthefuturelaunch.asp
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2012/educational/december/news_tcm4741823.asp

Education Scotland has launched a new strategic thinking kit, Promoting Innovative Practice and Transformative Change, to promote the visioning and planning needed for change as educational establishments and services address the challenges and priorities of today’s evolving education system.

A collection of videos showing how education establishments and communities have used the toolkit are available the Journey to Excellence website.

Opening up the Future was launched on 4 December, highlighting the new approaches being used to make change happen. Read Graham Leicester’s review of the day published in the Scotsman on 5th December:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/graham-leicester-what-we-need-now-is-real-butterfly-thinking-1-2677079

Post-event discussions and learning continue online:

·   Join our professional learning community to share and discuss your change projects with other practitioners: https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/CPD%20Central/ourfuture/home.aspx (Requires Glow login)

·   See video examples of Opening Up The Future projects from across Scotland on the Journey to Excellence site
http://www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk/resourcesandcpd/openingupthefuture/index.asp

·   Keep up to date with Opening Up The Future developments through the project blog: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/PIPTC/

·   Watch and share the ‘It’s my future’ music video via YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdE9eBVZ5cg

·   Catch up with the Opening Up The Future launch event http://www.facebook.com/events/143020095845203/