Tag Archives: creativity

Aberdeen, CfE, Early Years, Edinburgh, Fife, Inverclyde, Opportunities, South Lanarkshire

Starcatchers Creative Skills Training

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Starcatchers is currently offering a free training programme for Early Years workers in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Fife, South Lanarkshire and Inverclyde as part of a pilot project to develop creative skills for early years workers in Scotland which is being supported by the Scottish Government and Creative Scotland.

The programme will allow early years workers from a range of sectors to build their understanding of the importances of creativity in early years and through a series of artist-led practical sessions, will offer skills and techniques that practitioners can use when they are working with children and families directly.

Starcatchers is currently recruiting participants for the project, all the information is on their website:  http://www.starcatchers.org.uk/creative-skills/creative-skills-early-years-practitioners

Download further information here: Creative Skills National Info

Literacy, Opportunities, Young People

The 50 Word Fiction Competition – Can you write a story in just 50 words?

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Can you write a story in just 50 words? Each month Scottish Book Trust provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you. The competition now includes an additional category for Young Writers. This category will include stories by writers under the age of 18. All stories will be judged by the same panel and both winning stories will be published on the Scottish Book Trust website.

Click here for more information on how to enter: The 50 Word Fiction Competition

CLN News, CPD, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Creative Conversation Christmas Celebration

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Edinburgh’s Creative Conversation Christmas Celebration is on Wednesday 11th December 2013.This one has a slightly different focus and our Creative Catalysts are people who have been inspired by Creative Conversations to take action. Different ways of working, challenges to the norm, surprises, being outside the comfort zone and inspiring stories of deep pupil engagement can all be expected.

The Creative Conversation is titled ‘What Difference Does it Make?’ and that is exactly what you are invited to discuss with colleagues.

I would also like to thank all of you for coming to Creative Conversations and hope you can join Gillian Tee, David Cameron, Lucy Vaughan, Heather Lucchesi Eileen Littlewood and Lindsay Fullarton in what I am sure will be a very enjoyable conversation about Creativity across Learning.

Coffee is from 4pm and the Creative Conversation will begin at 4.30. Wine and seasonal nibbles will follow at around 6pm till 7ish.

Places will fill up very quickly – please email Linda Lees <Linda.Lees@edinburgh.gov.uk> for an invitation.

CfE, Interdisciplinary Learning, Literacy, Opportunities, Partnerships, Teachers, Young People

Inspired by my Museum, International Writing Competition

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An encounter with a museum can be a life-changing experience, a realisation of the past or an inspiration for the future. If you have a poem, short story or reportage inspired by a museum you have visited, tell us and your words could be selected for publication.

http://www.sampad.org.uk/learning/opportunities/competitions/

It could be the space, architecture, design, an object or objects in the museum or even the museum/exhibition curator who has inspired you.

  • Further to the overwhelming response to the launch of the competition, we have now extended the age limit so that any writer from anywhere in the world from the age of 16 upwards can take part.
  • Entries can be up to 400 words.
  • Only ONE entry is allowed per person
  • LAST DATE FOR ENTRIES IS MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2014
Assessment, CfE, Dundee, Partnerships

New report on Assessing Creativity across many subjects available on Creativity Portal

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Led by the University of Dundee and funded by Creative Scotland, this project gathered the views of three groups of professionals working within the expressive arts with the aim of identifying effective and innovative models of assessment of creativity. These models were documented and used to develop case studies in the format of a teaching resource for application across the whole curriculum. The resource was piloted and evaluated by the research and development team in collaboration with teachers and initial teacher education (ITE) providers.

Click here to find the downloadable file:

http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=assessing+creativity

The project develops the links between arts organisations, schools and ITE providers through data collection; shared analysis and evaluation; and through the development, application and dissemination of findings. In this way stronger partnerships have been established as recommended in Teaching  Scotland’s  Future  (Donaldson  2010)
CfE, Expressive Arts, Literacy, Opportunities, Perth and Kinross

120 Words for Perth and Kinross

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2014 is set to be a fantastic year in Perth & Kinross and across Scotland. With the Year of Homecoming, the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup, 2014 will be full of amazing events, activities opportunities and memories. With our website, 120 words, we want to capture a record of 2014 in Perth & Kinross whether you live, work or visit the area.

120 Words 1200 people 12 months We’d like you to get creative and describe what you’ve done, what you’re doing or what you want to do in 120 words, upload it to our website and share it. You can even add a wee photo too! Our website will launch at the end of November 2013 and we’d like as many contributions as we can get. You can submit as many times as you want (in 120 words!) over the year and to help inspire you we’ve created 12 themes for you to write about.

You can upload your contribution to www.our120words.org.uk at the end of November or please fill in the submission form email it to us and we’ll upload it for you. Over the next 12 months we’ll build a picture of 2014, keep checking back to see what’s been posted and what people have been up to.

Download the submission form here: 120 Words Submissions Form – public editable

Thanks for your entry! When complete, please return this form to

Henriette Laidlaw, Perth Museum & Art Gallery HELaidlaw@pkc.gov.uk

CfE, Expressive Arts, Glow, Literacy, Teachers, Uncategorized, Young People

Glow TV: Authors Live

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The Making of Katie Morag with Mairi Hedderwick

28 November 11.00

http://bit.ly/I6gpyv

Mairi Hedderwick is bringing her most famous character, Katie Morag to Authors Live. Evoking the spirits of island life, Mairi will be telling her favourite Katie Morag stories, giving you an exclusive insight into what it is like to see Katie Morag being brought to life for CBeebies and telling you how the landscape and your surroundings can inspire what to write and draw.  Suitable for Nursery – Primary 3 or 4-7 years.

CfE, Physical Education

Glow TV: Better Movers and Thinkers – evolution in physical education

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Better Movers and Thinkers

27 November 15.00

http://bit.ly/18OMGQW

Join this Glow Meet to find out about Better Movers and Thinkers, an innovative, exciting and challenging movement and learning programme for Physical Education, that focuses directly on enhancing the links between movement and thinking, and how these critical elements scaffold the development of physical performance and learning across the curriculum. BMT is evolution in physical education, not revolution.

CfE, Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths, Science, Teachers, Technologies

inGenious competition brings STEM classes to life

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A new competition has been launched to inspire the most creative teaching minds to translate their passion for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects into exciting classroom experiences.

http://www.nfer.ac.uk/about-nfer/media-and-events/ingenious-competition-brings-stem-classes-to-life.cfm

The inGenious competition – co-ordinated in the UK by Futurelab at NFER – calls for all teachers in Europe to help their pupils better see the link between their passions, the set of skills which make them possible, and the education paths leading to those skills.

The inGenious competition is open to all teachers at primary and secondary school level. Applications are open until 28 February 2014, and 30 finalists will be invited to attend the inGenious European Award Ceremony in Brussels later in the year.

Art and Design, CfE, Expressive Arts, Interdisciplinary Learning, Opportunities, Social Studies, Young People

Young People’s Photographic Competition

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The Economic and Social Research Council is running a competition which challenges young people aged between 14 and 18 to produce a picture on the theme of “Where do I belong” – thinking about dimensions such as community, family, friends, country, beliefs, etc. Full details on the ESRC website

Deadline for entries – 9 December