Wednesday 23 October 2013
10am – 1:30pm
Creative Scotland Offices
Waverley Gate
Edinburgh
EH1 3EG
A free event for anyone in the cultural sector interested in or currently running mentoring programmes
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AmbITion Scotland: Digital Horizons Consultation, 24 September
Join AmbITion Scotland to help co-design the next phase of
digital development and organisational support
We want to help you make the most of the changing digital landscape and take advantage of the opportunities to develop programme content; public engagement and revenues.
In this rapidly changing world, we’re offering a fun half day to work collaboratively with you to identify the digital development support your organisation or practice needs to thrive.
This is your opportunity to make sure that the next phase of digital development support from AmbITion Scotland addresses the needs and opportunities you predict. We are open to all ideas & interests. You know best what you need and what’s on your horizon for the next few years. What do you want to learn? What are you hoping to do? How can you learn better & more efficiently from each other?
time: 1.30 – 5pm, 24 September 2013
venue: Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Empire Rooms
who should come: people from the arts, cultural and heritage sectors who are interested in building digital capacity, confidence, creativity and capability in their organisation or practice.
Job opportunity: Creative Learning and Engagement Manager, Macrobert, Stirling
This is a new post within macrobert during an exciting phase of its
development. Over the past 2 years the organisation has undergone
significant change with the appointment of a new Artistic and Leadership
team and a change in the organisations strategic development and arts
programme. Over the next 2 years we will be consolidating our successes,
while also driving forward new ambitious strategies linked to audience
development, creative learning and equalities.
This new role of Creative Learning and Engagement Manager seeks to
maximise the impact of macrobert’s work by connecting with existing
and new audiences, increasing participation in the arts and enhancing
macrobert and the University’s relationship through creative learning.
The role is also an important development for macrobert in realising its
ambition of being a learning and reflective organisation.
For a full job description & candidate pack please apply to Karen
Somerville, Macrobert, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA or
email jobs@macrobert.org<mailto:jobs@macrobert.org> Applications to be
received by Friday 27th September -12 noon.
Interviews will take place on Friday 4th October. Candidates should be
available on this date.
Alice McGrath
Director of Creative Development, Participation and Research
macrobert arts centre, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
T +44(0)1786 46 7159
F +44(0)1786 46 6600
E: alice.mcgrath@macrobert.org
To browse our programme and book tickets please visit
www.macrobert.org<http://www.macrobert.org>
New to the National Assessment Resource (NAR)
https://www.narscotland.org.uk/?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0
Education Scotland has recently published a number of new assessment and moderation exemplars, produced by practitioners, on the National Assessment Resource. They relate to the following themes:
• Consistent assessment practice across larger groups, within a school or learning community
• Moderation across authorities
• Gaelic
• Additional Support Needs
• Early Years
• Innovative moderation practice
• E-portfolios
• P7 profiles linked to faith development in Roman Catholic schools.
The exemplars are available on NAR with easy access using the Quick Links section on the home page.
ArtWorks Scotland Conference 2013
The ArtWorks Scotland Conference website is now live.
The ArtWorks team will continue to add information to the site as the programme develops, but in the meantime you can:
- Read more about the conference
- See a few of our confirmed contributors
- Book your place
- Find out more about the venue
- Review last year’s conference
We look forward to seeing you there!
All the best
The ArtWorks Scotland Team
Talking Heads
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/sharingpractice/t/talkingheads/introduction.asp
This short series provides useful insights into the ongoing work around implementing Curriculum for Excellence in the senior phase (S4-S6). Five headteachers talk about building and developing the curriculum in their secondary schools. Each talks about what ‘curriculum’ means to their school and community, how a clear rationale was developed with staff, young people and parents, and how they specified the resulting design for its implementation.
Curriculum for Excellence National Expectations: Self-evaluation resource – QIs 5.1 and 5.9
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/c/genericresource_tcm4813830.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0
Education Scotland has published a new resource – Curriculum for Excellence National Expectations: Self-evaluation resource – QIs 5.1 and 5.9 – which supplements the advice given in the Inspection Advice Note 2013-14 and sets out updated expectations in relation to Quality Indicator (QI) 5.1 The curriculum and QI 5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation.
This resource is the first in a series of support for practitioners in evaluating the impact of curriculum change and improvement through self-evaluation. It includes updated illustrations of ‘very good’ for QI 5.1 The curriculum and QI 5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation together with a set of questions that can be used to help evaluate the quality of the broad general education, the senior phase and curriculum transitions as well as the quality of improvement through self-evaluation.
Journey to Excellence website update
www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk
The Journey to Excellence website provides examples of excellence in Scottish education and other children’s services. Education Scotland has recently uploaded a new batch of films to the site, providing examples in various curriculum areas, including science and social studies from nursery, primary and secondary establishments.
Establishments in the latest batch of films include: Poppies Nursery, Strathallan Primary School, St Ignatius Primary School, Millersneuk Primary School, Milngavie Primary School, Pilrig Park School, Bearsden Academy, Bishopbriggs Academy, Calderglen High School, Deans Community High School and St Andrew’s RC Secondary School.
To find out more, please visit the Journey to Excellence website (www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk) home page and scroll down to ‘Latest Videos’.
Creative Minds Learning Network, East Ayrshire: “Naturally Creative”
Tuesday 17th September, 4.15pm for 4.30pm, St. Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7SL
Keynote Speaker: Gordon Brown, Brain Juice
Once again the Cultural Co-ordinator Team within East Ayrshire’s Creative Minds Team has successfully secured funding from Creative Scotland and Education Scotland to continue to support our growing movement of professionals championing cultural education in our schools and communities. This promises to be an interesting, informative and enjoyable event providing a platform to connect and collaborate with new partners, generate ideas and make things happen. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think would be interested in coming along or you feel would benefit from taking part. All we ask is that they contact us with their details (name/designation, artist etc/establishment) so we have a handle on numbers. There will, as always, be an opportunity to connect with colleagues, teachers, artists, parents and pupils in a welcoming and friendly environment, enjoy our hospitality and a special preview of St. Joseph’s Academy Art Exhibition.
We will also launch our Creative Learning Opportunities Training Diary for 2013/14 which offers workshops, funding advice, visits and experiences to name only a few, and we invite you to book your creative learning opportunity of choice at the event.
As well as being a successful author, our keynote speaker Gordon Brown, has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing, including 14 years with Bass Brewers and as Director of Brands for the Tennents portfolio. He will share his knowledge and ideas to provoke discussion about the role and importance of creative minds in business and to fully recognise the increased value in teaching and nurturing creativity skills in schools. http://www.gordonjbrown.com/about-2
We hope you will continue to support the network in order to safeguard and shape the future of arts and cultural education in East Ayrshire. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any further information at this time.
Please RSVP eileen.skinner@east-ayrshire.gov.uk to confirm your attendance if you haven’t already done so through Facebook www.facebook.com/CreativeMindsLearningNetwork
Sent on behalf of Helen Duncan, Cultural Co-ordinator and Zara Smith, Dance Motivator
Creative Minds Team, East Ayrshire
Girfec: A creative approach
An innovative conference, entitled Girfec: A creative approach, was recently held in South Lanarkshire as part of the Creative Learning Networks scheme.
South Lanarkshire’s Cultural Co-ordinator team organised the half day conference which was aimed at colleagues from across agencies and aimed to explore creative approaches to achieving positive outcomes for children, young people and their families linking to the wellbeing indicators.
The Cultural Co-ordinators are part of Integrating Children’s Services with a key remit for vulnerable families so undertake a lot of targeted working with schools and also with children and families. The conference gave an opportunity to bring together a wide range of colleagues to highlight the value of creative approaches when looking at girfec.
The conference offered colleagues the opportunity to hear from keynote speaker David Cameron, hear about practical examples and to network and discover the range of services already available within South Lanarkshire.
The objectives of the conference were to encourage staff to:
▫ Identify areas of their work where arts, culture and creativity could be used to address the wellbeing indicators.
▫ Gain a stronger awareness of national policy in relation to arts, culture and creativity in education.
▫ Take forward innovative approaches within own practice.
▫ Adopt collaborative approaches across resources.
The event was targeted at a wide range of agencies including social work, NHS and the voluntary sector. The following chart shows the breakdown of who attended.
The response from delegates overall was positive with people citing the importance to gather information as being an important part of the event, as well as the chance to hear an inspirational and motivational speaker. One delegate noted “Enthusiastic presenters who made me think about new ways to approach my work with children & families” and another “Really put GIRFEC into a context which will enthuse practitioners.”
A short film feature was made by South Lanarkshire TV about the event – it can be found at the following link http://youtu.be/Tw_t2V-6QLg
