Category Archives: Highland

Project Co-ordinator opportunity with Fèis Rois

Fèis Rois is offering an exciting opportunity for a young person aged 16 – 20 to join its team as a Project Co-ordinator.

The successful candidate will be offered a 1-year full-time contract at Fèis Rois, as well as having the opportunity to work towards a nationally recognised qualification in Community Arts Management through the Creative Apprenticeship scheme.

The apprentice will have the opportunity to work on a number of Fèis Rois projects, including residential courses, the Ceilidh Trail and the national Fèis Rois schools programme.

The successful candidate will also receive numerous professional development opportunities, including:
– Mentoring from experienced members of the Fèis Rois staff team;
– First aid and child protection training from external providers;
– In-house CPD opportunities, including social networking, IT, and creative courses.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the arts and who has an interest in traditional music. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to work as part of a small team.

Salary: £8,500 – £12,500
Term: Fixed Term (One Year)
Deadline: Friday 31st May 2013

For more information and an application form, please visit www.feisrois.org

UK Safer Internet Centre – E-safety briefing events

After holding a major E-safety Live event in Edinburgh last year, the UK Safer Internet Centre is coming back to Scotland to deliver free e-safety briefings in May. The briefings are aimed at teachers and all other professionals working with children and young people, such as, social workers, early years workers, youth workers, police officers, etc.

The sessions are two hours long and have information around internet safety –  new online technologies and risks, updates on available tools and resources, latest research and developments.

Dates and venues:
14 May am – Edinburgh
14 May pm – Glasgow
15 May am – Perth
15 May pm – Fife
16 May – Inverness

For more information and to register go to www.esafetylive.com

National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012

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