2904, 2015

Global Treasure Apps – Create a location-based interactive trail

Peter Murray
April 29, 2015
CfE, Digital Learning, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Literacy and English, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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Calling teachers around the world! Download Global Treasure Apps for FREE for your students! Global Treasure Apps are fun, interactive and informative apps, shining a new light on the world around us. The app won an International Serious Play Award in LA in 2014 for “outstanding visitor engagement with a measurable learning opportunity”, making Global Treasure Apps leaders in the field of Game Based Learning on Location. Global Treasure Apps are launching

2704, 2015

Weather and Climate Change Glow Meet

Peter Murray
April 27, 2015
CfE, Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills
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197

Holidaying in Ibiza or even backpacking across Europe was not an option last summer for four inspirational undergraduate students from all across Scotland, who spurned the ordinary and instead single-handedly organised an extraordinary trip to the Arctic. The main purpose of the trip was to study how climate change is affecting the landscape and the people of the Arctic. Team leader, Cameron MacKay, was motivated to go on the trip

2204, 2015

Fife as a Global Community

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Health and wellbeing, Primary, Responsibility of All, Skills, Social studies
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176

Exhibiting the work of: Carleton Primary; Coaltown of Balgonie Primary; Markinch Primary; Milton of Balgonie Primary; Pitteuchar West Primary; Star Primary; Thornton Primary and Warout Primary The Kingdom Shopping Centre, Glenrothes recently hosted a school event run by St Andrew’s University. Exhibitions of local primary school pupils’ work was on display and the pupils involved were there to discuss the projects that they had been working on, to the public.

2204, 2015

Loch Lomond: Social Studies Skills Day

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Early Learning and Childcare, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Skills, Social studies
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212

Registration is now live for a place on the Social Studies skills day on Inchcailloch Island. To register, please sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/99VJQGQ Education Scotland has teamed up with Loch Lomond National Park to offer two days for Primary practitioners, to help improve confidence using Social Studies Skills in the outdoors. The first of these days will take place on the 16th of May. The day will start with a

2004, 2015

Citizen science on prime time tv!

Peter Murray
April 20, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies
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199

Citizen science on prime time! Sunday night’s Countryfile programme on BBC1 highlighted the issue of tree diseases and the effect on our environment and our economy. The biggest threat to British trees is disease – and in many cases there’s no cure. The Countryfile team investigated the threats to our woodland and found out what we can all do to defend our trees including collecting data using the Forestry Commision

1704, 2015

It’s an early bee count!

Peter Murray
April 17, 2015
Early Learning and Childcare, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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183

It’s an early bee count! Find out about bees and why they are important. Encourage them into your school grounds and local environment and learn about the role they play in local ecosystems. Different bees fly at different times. This year the Great British Bee Count will be looking at bees that appear earlier in the year. So on Friday 1st May get ready to download the new bee spotting app

0704, 2015

ENTHUSE Partnership Awards 2015

Peter Murray
April 7, 2015
Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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184

The ENTHUSE Partnership Awards are a grant of £12,000 for groups of between four and eight primary schools wishing to work together to address local issues of underachievement in science/STEM subjects. The ENTHUSE Partnership Award aims to support collaborative activities over two years to develop and strengthen local partnerships which can subsequently continue independently. New schools wishing to apply to become an ENTHUSE Partnership, which will commence in September 2015

3103, 2015

Our Environment Competition deadline extended!

Peter Murray
March 31, 2015
CfE, Health and wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies, Technologies
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181

The ‘Our Environment Competition’ is a great way of engaging young people with their local environment and conservation issues. Children identify and collect information about an issue in their local environment, collate the information and propose a solution. Submit your entry as a presentation, poster, leaflet, video or photo storyboard – or maybe you can think of another creative way. Have you already been working on an environmental project? You

3103, 2015

CPD for Primary Teacher – Unlocking the Thinking Behind Computing

Peter Murray
March 31, 2015
CfE, Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Professional Learning, Skills, Technologies
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194

Computing At School Scotland have a course running soon for teachers who are absolute beginners at Computing and want more confidence and understanding. You can learn from our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9SxjjU_-RM There is more information below and on http://www.cas.scot/unlock/ (as well as a link to an Eventbrite booking page)