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January 20th, 2011

Have your say on Co-Create…

Gail Cairns

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Co-Create is supporting artists, performers, writers and Scotland’s schools to work and learn together in new ways, using Glow, developing practice and demonstrating the key role the arts and creativity play in supporting Curriculum for Excellence.

Learning and Teaching Scotland would like to invite primary and secondary school pupils, teachers and school management and staff from arts organisations, who have been involved in one of the ten Co-Create projects to have your say on the impact of the Co-Create project on learning and teaching practice.

Take advantage of the opportunity to provide feedback on:

• The impact of the Co-Create project on young people’s learning experiences
• The extent to which the Co-Create project supported implementation of Curriculum for Excellence and use of Glow
• The extent to which the Co-Create project has enabled new teaching and learning methodologies
• The effectiveness of the partnership models adopted to manage and deliver the Co-Create project.

The survey should take pupils no more than five minutes to complete, and all responses will remain anonymous.

Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Creative Scotland National Lottery Fund.

January 20th, 2011

60th Organisation added to Creativity Portal

Lesley Sneddon

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The Creativity Portal is an exciting resource for practitioners designed to inform, inspire and encourage debate around creativity. The Portal has just added its 60th cultural organisation to the list of quality assured arts based companies, covering all aspects of the creative spectrum including art, dance, theatre, the moving image, literature, heritage and architecture.

The Creativity Portal contains an extensive selection of case studies showing how the collaboration between cultural and educational practitioners can assist with the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence. It also offers practitioners the opportunity to share ideas and meet like-minded colleagues through a forum.

This ‘one-stop-shop’ for creativity in Scottish Schools has developed though a partnership between LTS and Creative Scotland. The Scottish Government, recognising the need to support and nurture creativity in teaching and learning, recently published ‘Education and the Arts, Culture and Creativity: an action plan’. The development of the Creativity Portal is laid out in this plan.

The Creativity Portal bridges the gap between Scotland’s creative organisations and the secure schools intranet, Glow, and whilst most of the Creativity Portal is open to all some areas require a Glow login