Screen Scotland have created draft Film and Screen Curriculum for Scotland.  Designed by early years practitioners, teachers, further and higher education specialists, industry advisers, the BFI, SQA and Education Scotland, the draft Curriculum has been tested in five local authorities, Shetland, Highland, Dundee, Edinburgh and Argyll and Bute, as follows: Phase One: Early Years and Primary 2022/23 and Phase Two: Secondary 2023/24.

Designed as an expressive art for Scotland’s Curriculum and focussed on practical filmmaking for the classroom, including a pilot SQA Film and Screen Award, Screen Scotland are now seeking teachers and schools to deliver a final Phase Three of Curriculum testing in 2024/25.  Full training for this will be provided through the Screen Scotland Summer School with ongoing support throughout the academic year from the Screen Scotland Curriculum Testing Support Programme.

THE SUMMER SCHOOL

The Summer School is a GTC-accredited programme and will run for two weeks from 29 July to 9 August , 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday. It will be delivered by Screen Education Edinburgh, with support from Screen Scotland and Education Scotland and will be hosted by Forth Valley College at their Stirling Campus.

There are 40 places on the programme, to be split between primary and secondary provision.  Recognising that this will take place during school holidays, participants will be paid an honorarium for their time.

To participate in the programme participants must:

• Commit to the full ten days of training
• Provide Screen Scotland with confirmation from their school’s Senior Leadership Team that the draft film and screen will be delivered as part of their school’s timetable
• Provide Screen Scotland with detail of the number of pupils and classes who will have the draft film and screen curriculum on their timetable
• Agree to complete evaluations of the curriculum and its delivery (proformas provided by Screen Scotland)
• Agree to participate in a further weekend of training and reflection in early 2025

All reasonable travel and accommodation costs for participants will be met by Screen Scotland.

REGISTER TO TAKE PART

If you would like to take part in the Summer School, please speak to the appropriate senior member(s) of staff within your school and confirm that curriculum testing will be allowed to take place there across the academic year 2024/25.  You should then formally confirm your interest via email to Fi Milligan Rennie, the Head of Education – Screen:  fi.milligan-rennie@creativescotland.com putting SUMMER SCHOOL in the subject line.