Hermitage Primary School, Technology Challenge 2014

Primary 7 pupils at Hermitage Primary School, Helensburgh took part in their Technology Challenge presentation evening on Thursday 4th December, which brought their interdisciplinary topic to a close. The project incorporated all STEM subjects enabling learners to develop their knowledge and understanding of the concepts and skills in Technologies, Maths, Language and Science. This also included aspects of PSD. The Technology Challenge required pupils to work in cooperative groups, to

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Scottish Education STEM Award 2015

The Scottish Education Awards celebrate the hard work and success which takes place in Scottish education. They recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people and showcase the valuable work and innovation in Scottish classrooms. This year a new award category for STEM, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, has been introduced.  This category recognises establishments who are helping children and young people develop STEM skills

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Game Masters: Teachers Preview Event

Date: Tuesday 9 December Time: 16:30-18:30 Venue: Studio 1, Learning Centre, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Cost: Free Booking: Please book your FREE space by email schools@nms.ac.uk or phone 0131 247 4041. Tea/coffee and cake will be provided. Spaces are limited so please book your place as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. This session will introduce teachers to the Game Masters exhibition in preparation for visiting with a class.

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Inspiring workshops and presentations for all year groups

Presentations Our presentations are designed to be delivered to up to 150 people. We can happily deliver these to an entire year group. All presentations run from 40mins– 1 hour P7 – S3 Workshops Our workshops are intensive fully interactive sessions designed for groups of up to 30 pupils (unless otherwise stated). Workshops are 45mins—1 hour long to fit into a standard lesson. Careers & Parents’ Evenings We are happy

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Engaging with Scottish schools to promote STEM

Engaging with Scottish schools to promote STEM 10am to 3:30pm, 2nd February 2015 Venue: Deans Community High School, Livingston The Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce states in its report that ‘a focus on sciences, technologies, engineering and mathematics (STEM) should sit at the heart of the development of Scotland’s young workforce’ and calls for long-term partnerships to be established between schools, colleges and employers to bring about significant change.

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Disruptive Innovation Festival

Hopefully you will have had the chance to see some of the outstanding sessions available as part of the online Disruptive Innovation Festival which has been running from 20th October to 14th November 2014. For those of you that have not managed to catch any of the sessions or missed some due to other commitments we are delighted to announce that many of the events have been recorded and will

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Supporting Outdoor Learning in Secondary Schools

Supporting Outdoor Learning in Secondary Schools When: Saturday 15th November 2014 Where: Speyside High School, Aberlour Time: 9:30am-4pm In the revised GTCS Standards for Career Long Professional Learning teachers are required to “understand and develop the most appropriate contexts for learning including outdoor learning and be able to apply appropriate pedagogies for these environments”. This event aims to support this and build confidence and capacity in the delivery of outdoor

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Outdoor Learning with the National Parks – Senior Pupil Residential, 2nd – 5th September

At the beginning of September the Senior Pupil Residential took place at Lagganlia Centre for Outdoor Learning in Glen Feshie. This residential which is now in it’s fourth year is part of the Outdoor Learning with National Parks project and was jointly funded by Education Scotland, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority, Cairngorms National Park Authority and the Forestry Commission Scotland. In total 14 schools from across seven local

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Free Community Resilience Conversation and Networking Event – Inverness October 7th

Community Resilience Education – Free Conversation Day and Networking Event 09:30 (for 10:00 start) – 15:00, Tuesday 7th October 2014 Venue: Thistle Hotel, Millburn Road, Inverness, IV2 3TR Education Scotland is excited to be hosting a second community resilience conversation and networking event with a view to developing a shared, partnership approach to provide 3-18 resilience education opportunities. The day aims to bring together members of the Scottish Government, emergency

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Future Learn – Basic Science: Understanding Experiments

Basic Science: Understanding Experiments This practical, hands-on course is aimed at school aged learners to help them start thinking like a scientist by carrying out experiments at home and making scientific observations. They will carry out simple experiments to extract the DNA from fruit or vegetables, observe osmosis in action and bake a potato to destruction! They’ll also investigate how different liquids behave when frozen and how much water an

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