1312, 2016

DYW Interesting Practice – Ferguslie – Pre-Five Centre: Skills Development in Early Years

Ferguslie Pre-Five Centre, this year’s Scottish Education Award winner in the category ‘Employability across Learning’,  provides a skills based learning approach for children from 3 – 5 years, actively seeking to connect learning to the world of work whenever possible.  Through a variety of play contexts and in connection with professionals and local businesses they engage in projects that inspire enterprising attitudes and creativity.  At the same time it introduces children to a range of jobs people

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2004, 2016

ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND Conference

The 2016 AMES conference will be held on Saturday 4 June at Forth Valley College, Stirling. The theme for the conference is ‘How good is our Creativity?’ The title takes its inspiration from Education Scotland’s How Good is Our School? (4th edition) — which prioritises Creativity and Employability — as well as Creative Scotland’s ambitions for a thriving artistic, media and creative culture. Full details of the programme, fees and

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0211, 2015

How good is our school? – Increasing creativity

How good is our school? provides a suite of quality indicators that support staff in all sectors to scrutinise their work and evaluate what is working well for learners and what could be better. It is a key aspect of the Scottish approach to school improvement and supports self-evaluation and reflection by practitioners at all levels.   The 4th edition was launched at this year’s Scottish Learning Festival and features

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