Friday 22 February 2013 at 17:00

Throughout the short course teachers will be supported by Shakespeare’s Globe’s educational specialist who has developed dynamic learning approaches to exploring Shakepeare’s plays with boys.

Their approach to supporting teachers will in turn aid secondary pupils to better understand characterization, themes and language.

Shakespeare’s Globe use a variety of techniques to explore and experiment with text; from the actor’s viewpoint and from the director’s, differing interpretations of the same play and interactive tasks to bring the text to life.

A short but specific focus of the day will be on Romeo and Juliet.
This opportunity is available in: Glasgow City
For further information, please contact shortcourses@rcs.ac.uk (Short Courses), or call 0141 270 8213, or visithttp://www.rcs.ac.uk/shortcourses/dramaadults/professionaldevelopment/. The deadline is Friday 22 February 2013 at 17:00.

Thurs 21st Feb

The Arches
3pm-6pm
Free but ticketed – call 0141 565 1000 to reserve a place

How do we embed creativity into the core curriculum? How can we be responsive to the individual needs of students and learners? What is classroom inertia and how does creative practice offer a way of reimaging how a curriculum is offered?

Is it possible for artists, creative educators and teachers to work collaboratively to offer a more radical pedagogy measured by more than subject achievement? Who might lead this and does it work? Is it effective? What are the benefits of this approach? How might this impact on future pedagogical approaches?

For the culmination of their creative leadership project 100 Little Pennies, run by Gary Gardiner at Oakgrove Primary School in Glasgow, The Arches are hosting a symposium event, followed by drinks, nibbles and an opportunity to network.

Introduced by Dee Heddon (University of Glasgow), contributors include Gary Gardiner and Murray Wason (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), David Cameron (Director of The Real David Cameron LTD), Helen Nicholson (Professor of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway) and Lesley Dunlop (Education Consultant).

David Cameron on Creativity and Education

GTCS has published an article on creativity by Educationalist David Cameron, Director, The Read David Cameron Ltd. It is an expanded version of his TEDx presentation from Buenos Aires and acknowledges some of our achievements in Scotland from 2012. 

GTCS article: http://bit.ly/shaping_the_inheritance

TEDx talk video on Creativity Portal: http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=&c=,videos

Partnership Grants Scheme for Primary and Secondary Schools (UK)

The Royal Society has announced that its Partnership Grants programme has re-opend for applications.  

Through the programme, grants of between £250 and £3,000 are available to support teachers, scientists and engineers help develop science projects. The aim is to make the teaching of science more interesting within primary and secondary schools. Any UK primary or secondary school teacher or practising scientist/engineer can apply as long as the students involved in the project are between 5 and 18.  Since 2000, the scheme has awarded over £1.1 million to 660 schools. 

Examples of previously funded projects include: 

• Netheard High School, Dereham (Norfolk) which received a grant of £2,488 for the whole school to explore the solar system at first hand. 

  ·         Alfred Sutton Primary School in Reading which received a grant of £953 to study the incubation, hatching and development of young bantam chicks.  

  The deadline for applications will be the 22nd February 2013. 

  http://royalsociety.org/education/partnership/

  Grants for School Trips (UK)The Eridge Trust, which is a charitable trust whose purpose is to encourage young people to enjoy and appreciate visual art, especially painting, has announced that the next deadline for its grant making programme is the 31st May 2013.  

  The Trust makes grants of up to £2,000 to schools, colleges and others for school trips to museums, galleries and centres of art at home and abroad. Grants are also made to UK museums and galleries for projects aimed at young people. Trips must be for students in schools or sixth form colleges in the maintained sector. In the past, the Trust has supported many different kinds of trips, mainly organised by individual schools, but also by groups of schools, education authorities and others. They have included day trips to local galleries, trips of a few days to major UK cities and trips of up to a week or more to European cities and regions. In addition, the Trust have given grants to museums to support school visits and to encourage university students to enjoy and make use of their local museum. 

  http://www.eridgetrust.co.uk/page2.htm

  Tesco Charity Community Awards (UK)

  The Tesco Charity Community Awards for grants for children’s welfare and/or children’s educations (including special needs schools) is now open for applications. 

  Through the Awards, one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000 are available to local projects that support children and their education and welfare. 

  Previous projects supported have included: 

  • Sensory garden or room projects
  • Outdoor classrooms
  • Breakfast and after school clubs
  • Holiday play-schemes
  • Part funding to purchase minibuses. 

  The closing date for applications will be the 31st January 2013. The Tesco Charity Trust has been in existence since 1987 and aims to provide approximately £600,000 in grants each year. In addition the Trust also provides grants to groups working with and supporting elderly people and/or adults and children with disabilities. 

  This funding stream is due to re-open for applications on the 1st February 2013 with an application deadline of the 31st March 2013. The Tesco Charity Trust Trustees also consider grant applications at their tri-annual meetings. These grants range between £4,000 and £25,000 and are to support local, national or international projects in areas where Tesco operate. 

  http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=121#ref_tescocharitytrust 

  Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund Opens for Applications (Scotland)

  The Scottish Government has announced that its new £10 million Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund is now open for applications.  

  The fund is part of the Scottish Government’s Commonwealth Games Legacy 2014 programme, will give communities across Scotland more and better places to be active.  Grants between £10,000 and £100,000 are available to help build or upgrade local facilities such as new bike or skate parks, outdoor adventure facilities, walking routes, or new projects within schools.  The fund is open to a wide range of not for profit organisations and educational establishments such as schools and colleges.  

  The fund is open until 2015 and the closing date for the first round of applications is the 1st February 2013. 

  http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/sportscotland/funding/Legacy2014ActivePlacesFund