All posts in the ‘expressive arts’ Category
- February 9th, 2012
Developing global citizens through sciences, social studies and technologies
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: climate and energy, CPD, events, resources
: Categories CPD, creativity, curriculum areas, expressive arts, mathematics, renewables and climate change, sciences, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development, technologies
Developing global citizens through sciences, social studies and technologies
Interdisciplinary learning for a low carbon and zero waste future
CDP event for practitioners in secondary schools
Menzies Hotel, Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ
9:30am to 3:30pm, Friday 30th March 2012
Target audience: Practitioners, Principal Teachers and Faculty Heads of Technologies (e.g. CDT, Food and Textiles, Business and Enterprise), Sciences and Social Studies. Also local authority coordinators and QIOs.
Aim of the event:
This CPD event provides an exciting opportunity for secondary school practitioners to discover how cradle to cradle technologies and a circular economy can be used as a rich and stimulating context for interdisciplinary learning relating to sustainable development education and global citizenship within Curriculum for Excellence.
The Scottish Government is committed to a low-carbon and zero-waste economy, and the development of enterprise, creativity, STEM (Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Maths) and higher order thinking skills in young people are essential if we are to realise these ambitious plans for the future. The circular economy concept proposes the use of sustainable technologies, innovative design and production methods and systems thinking to minimise waste and reduce the exploitation of the Earth’s precious resources. This event will draw on practical and exciting developments within industry which are set to transform the way our economy operates in the decades ahead.
Education Scotland is working in partnership with The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the University of Edinburgh to develop strategies for professional development around sustainable development education and the circular economy to encourage the setting up of communities of practice among practitioners in Scotland. These will provide opportunities for ongoing, localised support and collaboration.
To find out more about the circular economy visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCRKvDyyHmI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
How to book
To book, please email: globalcitizens@educationscotland.gov.uk or Tel. 0141 282 5172. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. This is a free event!
Download CPD event flyer and programme >>
More- February 9th, 2012
Falkirk Council DGC Showcase and open day at Bo’ness Academy
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, europe, events, modern languages, school improvement
: Categories CPD, Uncategorized, china, citizenship, curriculum areas, early years, europe, expressive arts, health and wellbeing, international, languages, leadership, mathematics, modern languages, primary schools, religious and moral education, sciences, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development, technologies
Falkirk Council global citizenship showcase and school open day
Venue: Bo’ness Academy, Falkirk
9:30am – 3.00pm
Thursday 1st March 2012
Theme: International Education
This CPD event offers practitioners and school leaders an exciting opportunity to visit Bo’ness Academy and attend Falkirk Council’s Global Citizenship Showcase Event.
Bo’ness Academy is an inspiring example of a school that has used international education as a vehicle to engage the whole school in global citizenship activities. Through the Comenius Programme and other well established links the school has developed a rich international programme connecting it to countries across the world including: The Gambia, The Netherlands, China, France, Germany and The Czech Republic.
A focus of the event will be to identify and share the practical lessons and ideas that have helped the school move forward on its journey including:
- Making global citizenship a key priority in the school and a focus for the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence
- Using international links to explore important issues in a global context and to create engaging, meaningful and challenging learning experiences
- Developing strong international partnerships which can be sustained and which have made an impact on every learner.
Participants will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the Head Teacher, International Coordinator, staff and learners and also tour the classrooms and school. Time will also be set aside for participants to reflect and share their own experiences.
Following the open day event, participants will also have the opportunity to attend Falkirk Council’s Global Citizenship Showcase event which will also be taking place in Bo’ness Academy from 4pm – 6pm. This will feature exhibitions and displays from leading organisations such as Eco-Schools Scotland and the British Council and will showcase innovative global citizenship practice from many Falkirk schools.
How to book
To book, please contact Megan Farr, Policy Officer, Falkirk Council. Email: megan.farr@falkirk.gov.uk or Tel. 01324 506671.
Places for the open day section of the event are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. This is a free event!
Download programme for Bo’ness Academy Open Day >>
More- February 6th, 2012
UNESCO – Art Contest: Youth, Skills and Work
- kmayer
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: competition
: Categories citizenship, creativity, expressive arts
What skills do we need to create a better future?
Young people (18 – 24 years old) are invited to express their views creatively on education and the ways in which it provides them with the necessary opportunities and skills for life to participate successfully as global citizens in creating a thriving future.
Design brief:
The submission may be artwork of any size (between A5 and A3 or equivalent). Submissions can be in the form of photos, drawings, paintings, computer-generated images etc. Submissions can be in electronic format or on paper. Each artwork should be accompanied by a short artist biography and description of the work in relation to the theme of the contest. If electronic files only are submitted, a high-definition version (in PDF or JPEG) is required. We would prefer the artwork to be accompanied by a standard to high-resolution PDF file in A4 format for viewing by the jury.
Submission deadline: 1 April 2012
For more information visit EFA Global Monitoring Report
More- November 18th, 2011
Crofting Connections
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: community, food, nature, news, research
: Categories biodiversity, community, creativity, curriculum areas, expressive arts, health and wellbeing, homecoming, languages, mathematics, outdoor learning, primary schools, religious and moral education, renewables and climate change, sciences, scottish culture, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development, technologies
Crofting Connections is a 3-year long educational project which started in August 2009. It aims to enable over 1,200 young people aged 5 to 16 living in remote rural communities throughout the Highlands & Islands to learn about crofting past, present and future.
It is funded by HLF, SNH, LEADER, HIE and the Craignish Trust.
Its key outcomes for young people are for an increased:
- desire to live and work in their crofting communities.
- ability to keep crofting alive in the 21st century for the benefit of rural communities and the environment.
- development of Curriculum for Excellence‟ four capacities – successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.
- understanding of the need for locally produced, environmentally-friendly and healthy food based on low carbon principles.
The lead partners in the project are Soil Association Scotland and the Scottish Crofting Federation. To read more about this exciting project an about the impact it has had on learning teaching then download the Interim Report (you will need a Glow password to access this link).
More- October 28th, 2011
Travelling Green
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: action, climate and energy, resources
: Categories ICT, expressive arts, games and sport, health and wellbeing, languages, sciences, social studies, sustainable development
Travelling Green is a 6 week walking project which aims to encourage as many children as possible to change their method of travel to and from school, by increasing active commuting (walking) to school.
Travelling Green is an interdisciplinary project focusing on Health and Wellbeing with links to Science, Social Studies, Expressive Arts, Technologies and Languages.
Children learn about walking time and distance, they chart their progress to a more active journey to school and learn about healthy eating, why walking is good for them and how to stay safe on the walk to school.
Who is it aimed at?
Travelling Green is aimed at P5s (9 year olds) in primary schools in Scotland, but it can also be used in composite classes.
What can it achieve?
Increases in overall physical activity. Setting realistic, individual, achievable physical activity targets.
What’s new with Travelling Green?
Sustrans has developed new, free, eye-catching interactive whiteboard flipcharts that can be used with any interactive whiteboard. The flipcharts complement the paper resource pack and provide more opportunities for engagement in the classroom. You can download the interactive resources for free from the Promethean Planet partnership pages.
More info is available on the Sustrans website.
More- October 18th, 2011
Forest Pitch – Meet the artist in a Glowing Thursday!
- mfarrell
- Comments: none Tags: : Categories biodiversity, citizenship, commonwealth, community, creativity, curriculum areas, expressive arts, games and sport, health and wellbeing, international, primary schools, sciences, scottish culture, social studies, sustainable development
Glowing Thursday 10th November 2011
Forest Pitch – football strip design competition!
Meet the artist!
Join us on 10th November at 11am on Glow TV!
An opportunity to meet Scottish artist Craig Coulthard, creator of the highly innovative art project Forest Pitch. Funded by Creative Scotland and part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Forest Pitch will culminate in two football matches between amateur players who have recently taken up British citizenship. At the Scottish Learning Festival in September this year Craig launched a football strip design competition for primary age children to come up with exciting and innovative designs for the football strips that the players will wear.
As an arts project, Forest Pitch encourages debate about national identity, citizenship, the natural world, sustainability and participation in sport.
If you have already signed up for the competition or are thinking about doing so, then join us for this exciting Glowing Thursday to find out more and get some artist’s tips and advice.
Find out more about the competition, sign up and download the design brief and support materials here
And don’t forget – taking part in this competition is a great way of demonstrating a commitment to the Olympic and Paralympic values and joining the London 2012 Get Set Network. Do this before 16th December and qualify for FREE tickets for the Olympics! Find out more >>
More- August 15th, 2011
Space, Europe and Children’s art
- nickmorgan
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: competition, resources
: Categories europe, expressive arts, sciences, technologies
We aspire to help create global citizens who understand Scotland’s place in the world. Now here’s an opportunity for children to think about Scotland’s place in the universe.
The European Commission has launched a drawing competition for children aged 9-11 and living in the UK. The child who wins the competition will have a Galileo Programme Satellite named after them and launched into space, along with similar satellites named after other winners in the 27 European Union member states. To take part, each child must create and submit a piece of artwork based on the theme ‘Space and Aeronautics’. For example, this might be a picture of the Earth with other planets and satellites, or the launch of the rockets carrying the Galileo satellites. Children are invited to give free rein to their imagination and use any drawing, painting and colouring material and techniques they wish. Pictures must then be scanned or photographed and uploaded to the competition website by 15th November 2011. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony where the child will be presented with a trophy representing the real satellite that will be named after them. Details online at http://www.galileocontest.eu/en/competition
The Galileo Satellite Programme is Europe’s independent satellite navigation system. The programme will launch at least 27 satellites, keeping Europe at the forefront of space-related technologies. The system will have many functions including transportation management and mobile phone applications. The Galileo Satellite Programme website provides background information. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/satnav/index_en.htm
More- August 2nd, 2011
New resources on outdoor learning
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: community, nature, resources, scottish culture
: Categories biodiversity, community, early years, expressive arts, health and wellbeing, mathematics, outdoor learning, primary schools, sciences, scottish culture, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development
The following new resources on outdoor learning have recently been added to the Education Scotland website.
These case studies highlight a number of different examples of the way that woodland environments can provide a rich resource and context for learning.
Lady of the Lake: A Literacy and Outdoor Learning Transition Project
This project was a partnership approach to an innovative transition process, involving the 14 feeder primaries to McLaren High, Stirling. This incorporated outdoor learning and collaboration with local artists to inspire creative works, just as Sir Walter Scott took inspiration from the landscape of the Trossachs 200 years ago to write the epic poem ‘The Lady of the Lake’. The resultant process and outcomes supported many aspects of literacy across learning.
In June 2010, 130 young people from Upper Deeside started working with local and national archaeology groups on what is thought to be the largest schools archaeology project of its kind in Scotland.
The project took place within the Cairngorms National Park, an area with a unique natural and cultural heritage, where the impacts of anthropogenic climate change are becoming a reality. The project aimed to involve young people in exploring these impacts, through the medium of film, and to identify opportunities and consider adaptations to climate change. This was an interdisciplinary project that allowed pupils to make connections between their learning in school and the world outside.
Working in partnership with Grounds for Learning, Education Scotland have developed a series of short video clips supporting various ways in which school grounds can be used and developed to support the Curriculum for Excellence. Scroll down the page to select from clips such as Messy Outdoors Maths, The Creative Spark in Literacy, Nature’s Playground and Fire as a Context for Learning.
More- June 16th, 2011
Developing Global Citizens through Visual Arts Exhibition – Scottish Parliament, 21 – 24 June 2011
- kmayer
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: news, visual arts
: Categories CPD, citizenship, curriculum areas, expressive arts
As part of a national, comprehensive programme of support for schools and pre-schools, the Developing Global Citizens team at Learning and Teaching Scotland seeks to help practitioners embed Education for Citizenship, Sustainable Development Education and International Education within Curriculum for Excellence. This encompasses contemporary issues, promotes critical thinking and provides contexts for learning that are relevant and challenging to young people.
Artistic impression is an inclusive and powerful means for depicting our rapidly changing world and is a rich and creative vehicle for young people to explore and express their social and emotional literacy. Through art, learners can illustrate their own inner thoughts and feelings. It is a valuable means of personal communication as learners engage in the investigation of their own identity, cultural values and norms in the context of the wider world.
The Developing Global Citizens team worked with schools in six local authorities representing a wide geographical spread: Orkney; Argyll & Bute; Dundee City; Stirling; East Renfrewshire; Dumfries & Galloway to develop innovative approaches to embedding global issues in the expressive arts curriculum. This involved 22 different schools and hundreds of learners across the 3-18 spectrum, including young people with special educational needs. Through the resulting visual art work, much of which was the result of collaboration across various subject areas or across a whole school or schools, learners ably illustrated their own thoughts and feelings about global issues which concerned them such as identity, prejudice, the universal rights of children, human rights, global interdependence and the environment. Elements of this outstanding art work have been on display, to great acclaim, at various global citizenship educational events across the country, including the Scottish Learning Festival.
This final showcase gallery at Parliament brings the energy of ‘learner voice’ to the national seat of political power in Scotland in an innovative and creative format. It clearly reflects the professional expertise and passion of Scotland’s educators who have inspired learners by engaging them both collaboratively and as individuals in relevant global issues. They have unleashed the learners’ gift of human imagination and capacity for independent, divergent thinking. In doing so they have helped learners develop their critical literacy as responsible global citizens who knowledgeably embrace the challenges of the present, and are prepared for the challenges of the future – socially culturally and politically.
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