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

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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195

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

2403, 2015

Enter ‘Our Environment Competition’ and win £1000!

Peter Murray
March 24, 2015
CfE, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Social studies, Technologies
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185

There’s still time to get your competition entries in for the Our Environment Competition! It’s easy to enter and you can win £1000! Identify an environmental issues in your local area/school grounds. Collect data about the issue (these easy-to-use surveys might help you!) Young people can present their ideas for solving the problem (via presentation, leaflet, poster, video, photostory – or something else!) You

0302, 2015

Scottish Learning Festival 2015 – Learning for Sustainability

Peter Murray
February 3, 2015
CLD, Community Development, Community Resilience, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Professional Learning, Sciences, Skills, Social studies, Supporting Learners, Teacher Education, Young People
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186

The Scottish Learning Festival (SLF) 2015 will address the theme of raising attainment and achievement for all, with a focus on maximising educational outcomes through: local partnerships and collaboration – to share approaches that lead to better outcomes self-evaluation – to ensure creative and innovative approaches to sustained improvement work-related learning – to improve transitions into sustainable, productive employment. Is your establishment delivering Learning for Sustainability (LfS) that you would

0912, 2014

Scottish Education STEM Award 2015

Peter Murray
December 9, 2014
CfE, Early Learning and Childcare, Mathematics, Primary, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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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

2511, 2014

Millport: Primary Fieldwork Weekend

Peter Murray
November 25, 2014
Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Skills, Social studies, Uncategorised
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205

38 primary teachers from 8 different local authorities landed on the Isle of Cumbrae between the 14-16th November for a fun packed weekend of Outdoor Learning. The Social Studies fieldwork skills CLPL was held at the Field Studies Council centre in Millport. The course was fully funded by Education Scotland and organised in conjunction with Scottish FSC manager, Daniel Moncrieff, and his team. FSC Scotland delivers Primary, Environmental, Biology, Adventurous

1311, 2014

Disruptive Innovation Festival

Peter Murray
November 13, 2014
CfE, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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187

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

2110, 2014

Disruptive Innovation Festival

Peter Murray
October 21, 2014
CfE, Expressive Arts, Mathematics, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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195

The online Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is working with organisations, universities and individuals from all over the world to spotlight and explore the disruptive innovations that are shaking up industry and creating new opportunities in the economy. Many of the sessions during the festival have been crowd-sourced from global contributors and emphasises the opportunity for interaction and engagement with these ideas. Throughout the four weeks, the DIF provides thought-leadership, advice,

0710, 2014

Supporting Outdoor Learning in Secondary Schools

Peter Murray
October 7, 2014
Health and wellbeing, Health and wellbeing, Languages, Numeracy, Outdoor Learning, Responsibility of All, Sciences, Skills, Social studies, Uncategorised
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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

0610, 2014

Big Biology Day Scotland – the Science of Life. Sunday 12th October

Peter Murray
October 6, 2014
Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Sciences, Skills, Social studies, Teacher Education, Uncategorised
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Life, the world around us and the search for extra-terrestrials will be explored though a range of hands-on activities at Big Biology Scotland on Sunday 12th October 2014. This free event for all ages, at Mugdock Country Park from 10:00-15:00, will include outdoor activities such as a Bug Hunt, Sun spotting, Rocket making and Bird ringing. Inside the visitor centre, budding biologists can get busy making Crafty Critters and DNA bracelets. Older