1808, 2015

Millport Geography Weekend

Peter Murray
August 18, 2015
CfE, Learning for Sustainability, Outdoor Learning, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies, Technologies, Uncategorised
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There are still 10 places up for grabs at the Millport Geography Fieldwork weekend. DATE: Friday 4th September (evening) to Sunday 6th September Complete the Survey Monkey form to book a place. Attendance will be confirmed by email: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FFZC5ZY Funded by Education Scotland, this FREE residential course is held at the Field Studies Council site on Millport. http://field-studies-council.org/centres/scotland/millport.aspx View a full programme of the weekend here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVoIjf7S3-XblVuOFN3SnNmYVk/view?usp=sharing This is an excellent oportunity

1307, 2015

We can’t afford not to be creative!

Peter Murray
July 13, 2015
CfE, CLD, Early Learning and Childcare, MCMC/16+LC, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Responsibility of All, Senior Phase, Skills, Universal Support
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A key message from the recent Attaining Creative Solutions event was that if we want to engage learners, close the attainment gap and help young people develop the skills they need in order to thrive in an unpredictable and fast changing world, we can’t afford not to be creative. This National Creative Learning Network event brought together senior education staff and practitioners from local authorities across Scotland with operational and

1405, 2015

Primary Social Studies Skills: Loch Lomond 20th June

Peter Murray
May 14, 2015
Health and wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Skills, Social studies
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Registration is now live for a place on the Social Studies skills day at Luss and Loch Lomond Shores To register, please sign up here: http://bit.ly/LomondJune2015 Education Scotland has teamed up with Loch Lomond National Park to offer a second day of professional learning for Primary practitioners, to help improve confidence using Social Studies Skills in the outdoors. The day is for primary teachers only and there are 14 free places. A packed lunch

0605, 2015

Get learners engaged in real-life science!

Peter Murray
May 6, 2015
Early Learning and Childcare, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies
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Citizen Science workshops for Highland Council practitioners: Lochaber High School, Fort William 12th May 4:30pm Millburn Academy, Inverness 13th May 4:30pm Wick High School, Wick 19th May 4:30pm Please pass this on to any colleagues you think may be interested. Citizen science is an exciting way of engaging learners with real-life science in the world around them. Schools across Scotland are undertaking important scientific work, collecting data and using that data

3004, 2015

Citizen Science workshops for East Ayrshire Council practitioners

Peter Murray
April 30, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies
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Citizen Science workshops for East Ayrshire Council practitioners: St. Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock 5th May 3:45pm Mauchline Primary, Mauchline 6th May 3:45pm Citizen science is an exciting way of engaging learners with real-life science in the world around them. Schools across Scotland are undertaking important scientific work, collecting data and using that data to improve their own environment or passing the data to the scientific community. Some great examples of this can be see with the

3004, 2015

Citizen Science workshops for Highland Council practitioners

Peter Murray
April 30, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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Citizen Science workshops for Highland Council practitioners: Lochaber High School, Fort William 12th May 4:30pm Millburn Academy, Inverness 13th May 4:30pm Wick High School, Wick 19th May 4:30pm Citizen science is an exciting way of engaging learners with real-life science in the world around them. Schools across Scotland are undertaking important scientific work, collecting data and using that data to improve their own environment or passing the data to the scientific

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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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

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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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

2204, 2015

SAVE THE DATE – Social Studies Weekends

Peter Murray
April 22, 2015
Outdoor Learning, Professional Learning, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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The Social Studies team at Education Scotland have organised a series of FREE CLPL weekends and Saturdays to help develop fieldwork and outdoor learning skills in Social Studies. This follows two very successful Social Studies skills weekends at the Field Studies Council in 2014. You can read more about the primary weekend here: http://bit.ly/PrimaryMillport2014 Please save the following dates to your diary if you are interested in attending. Information about registration

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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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