0111, 2017

Making Scotland a STEM Nation

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November 1, 2017
Broad General Education, CfE, Digital Learning, Inclusion and Equality, Learning for Sustainability, Mathematics, Outdoor Learning, Sciences, Skills, Technologies
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STEM Education and Training Strategy for Scotland has now been published A STEM (Sciences Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) Education and Training Strategy was launched in the Scottish Parliament last week by Ms Shirley-Anne Somerville, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science. The Strategy, together with a STEM Evidence Base Report, is now available to download from: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/10/1386/downloads A central focus on the strategy is to enable everyone to develop

1804, 2017

Food for Thought Education Fund

Peter Murray
April 18, 2017
CfE, Health and wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Responsibility of All, Sciences, Skills
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Food for Thought Education Fund Food for Thought Phase 5 application The Food for Thought Education Fund gives financial support to develop Food and Health as a context for learning. The fund aims to improve practitioner confidence in providing progressive, high quality learning experiences which help to embed food education into the ethos of the establishment. It also provides an opportunity to plan and implement learning experiences which build sustainability

2402, 2017

Apps for Good Scottish Event

Peter Murray
February 24, 2017
CfE, Creativity, Digital Learning, Primary, Secondary, Skills, Technologies
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Apps for Good is an education movement that is powering a generation to change their world with technology. We partner with teachers in schools and learning centres to deliver our course to young people from 8 -18 years of age. Students work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn how to solve them using technology. Since 2010 Apps for Good has been delivered to over 75,000 students

0802, 2017

Financial Education, Numeracy and Mathematics

Peter Murray
February 8, 2017
Broad General Education, CfE, Digital Learning, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Mathematics, Numeracy, Primary, Secondary, Senior Phase, Skills
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The ability to work with numbers is an essential part of being financially capable. This has been recognised recently in a number of support materials recently published by Education Scotland. The first of these is the National Numeracy and Progression Framework. This includes a progression pathway on money (linked to the experiences and outcomes for money in Curriculum for Excellence) One of the key aspects of this framework is the

0211, 2016

How to join the Developing the Young Workforce Yammer group

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November 2, 2016
CfE, CLD, Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Secondary, Sector, Senior Phase, Skills
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All educators in Scotland with an interest or remit around DYW are invited to join this community. Here you can: take part in collegiate dialogue share what is working (or not) in your learning setting talk to the ES Skills Team and other staff working on this remit support team get help for your improvement objectives. To join the community, you need to be a member of Glow Yammer, so click here to

0111, 2016

Helping you to help pupils make subject to career connections

Sharon O’Rourke, Skills Development Scotland Helping young people make connections between what they are learning in classrooms and the world of work they’ll enter when they leave school has been brought into sharp focus by Building the Curriculum 4, the Career Education Standard and of course, Developing the Young Workforce. Embedding career information and advice web service My World of Work into lessons, using SDS’s newly developed ‘lesson inserts’, is

2710, 2016

Creativity: The Big Picture – new Creativity JPEGs available for use in presentations, reports, posters and online.

Peter Murray
October 27, 2016
Broad General Education, CfE, Creativity, Health and wellbeing, Responsibility of All, Skills
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The following JPEGs and PNGs (with a transparent background) are drawn from the Creativity: The Big Picture infographic available on the National Improvement Hub. Please use and share the images as widely as possible with educators, learners and partners in presentations, reports, posters and online. You can also build your own infographics from scratch using the Everything Is Creative online tool and make your own use of the artwork you see here.

2710, 2016

What are creativity skills? – new Creativity JPEGs available for use in presentations, reports, posters and online.

Peter Murray
October 27, 2016
Broad General Education, CfE, Creativity, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Primary, Responsibility of All, Secondary, Skills
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The following JPEGs and PNGs (with a transparent background) are drawn from the What are creativity skills? infographic, poster for learners, poster for staff, and poster for early learning and childcare settings, all available on the National Improvement Hub. Please use and share the images as widely as possible with educators, learners and partners in presentations, reports, posters and online. You can also build your own infographics from scratch using the Everything Is

2710, 2016

Why are creativity skills important for attainment? – new Creativity JPEGS available for use in presentations, reports, posters and online.

Peter Murray
October 27, 2016
Attainment, CfE, Creativity, Skills
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The following JPEGs are drawn from the Why are creativity skills important for attainment? infographic available on the National Improvement Hub. Please use and share the images as widely as possible with educators, learners and partners in presentations, reports, posters and online. You can also build your own infographics from scratch using the Everything Is Creative online tool and make your own use of the artwork you see here.

0209, 2016

Scotland’s Enterprising Schools Conference – developing employability skills for learners from 3 – 18

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September 2, 2016
Broad General Education, CfE, CLD, Creativity, Professional Learning, Skills
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Scotland’s Enterprising Schools, with the support of Education Scotland, will host a national event for strategic leaders in education to inspire enterprising attitudes, entrepreneurship and the development of skills for learning, life and work in learners. This all-day event will be held on : 26th October 2016 at Princes Trust Wolfson Centre, Cumbrae House, 15 Carlton Court, Glasgow G5 9JP. Access the event programme here: conference-agenda-2610-draft-updated-031016-2 Delegates will have the