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A wee reminder to pop this in your diaries for January.
This conferenence will be a joint Scottish CILT/HMIE conference which will showcase best practice identified during trialling of Curriculum for Excellence and from visits by HMIE and Scottish CILT.
Visit Scottish CILT for all the information you’ll need.
The Charles de Gaulle Bursary Scheme is managed by the British Council and provides funding of up to £1000 for individual students, aged 17 to 19, to undertake a four-week study project in France.
The project can relate to any aspect of the French language or culture. Applicants can choose a subject matter that is not necessarily academic but that is of interest to them. An information/application leaflet on the scheme and poster can be downloaded (see below). The closing date for the receipt of applications is 31 January 2009.
More information available from the British Council website and you can download a Charles de Gaulle Bursary pdf poster to put up in your school.
LIVE LESSON FOR LANGUAGES
GFT
Thursday 12 February 10.00am – 11.00am
Recommended for French Primary (P6 and P7)
France, 2007, 1h, French with subtitles
This event combines three contemporary animated short films with a French
language lesson. The short films are Hugh, Irinka and Sandrinka and Le Queue de la souris. Great for French language learners as an interactive cultural cinema experience and as an introduction to moving image education. A tutor presents and leads activities relating to the themes of the films live in the cinema. Free resources written by a teacher specialising in Primary MFL learning to help plan follow up work are available at: www.discoveryfilmfestival.org.uk
Visit http://www.discoveryfilmfestival.org.uk/resources.html.
Thanks to Discovery Film Festival.
THE CLASS (ENTRE LES MURS) (15)
GFT
Thursday 19 February 10.15am – 12.25pm
Friday 20 February 10.15am – 12.25pm
Recommended for Secondary 15+
France, 2008, 2h 8m, French with subtitles.
This remarkable film, based around improvised scenes in a real-life Paris classroom, offers a fresh and gripping account of the dynamics in multi-ethnic France. Teacher Francois attempts to instil respect and discipline into his resistant pupils until one day his patience is tried too far. No one is left unquestioned in this absorbing and uncompromising take on Parisian school life.
Cannes Palme d’Or winner 2008.
Thanks to Artificial Eye and the Alliance Francaise.
AM ENDE KOMMEN TOURISTEN
GFT
Tuesday 10 February 10.30am
Recommended for Secondary 2-6
Germany, 2007, 1hr 25min
Auschwitz was not what young German Sven had in mind when he volunteered to complete his civil service abroad. Sven befriends Stanislaw, a former prisoner who never left Auschwitz and now spends his days giving contemporary witness lectures and conserving suitcases belonging to the dead. As the weeks go by, Sven begins to discover both Auschwitz and O?wi?cim, the place of horror and the Polish town, the memorial to inhumanity and the tourist industry that has sprung up around it.
Choosing Intermediate or Standard grades is not always easy.
Check out the Which Way Now? 2009 (PDF format – 2.6MB) magazine to make sure you choose all the right subjects. Available for download from Careers Scotland.
Glasgow Youth Film Festival is delighted to launch a one-minute filmmaking competition for under 18s in association with Chew TV!
The five finalists will have their films shown during Glasgow Film Festival 09 and online on our website. The competition will be judged by a panel made up of film industry experts and a surprise celebrity guest. After the panel choose their five favourites, there will be a poll on the festival website for the public to vote for the winner.
The GTCS has announced that a teacher from Perth and Kinross has won the prestigious George D Gray CBE MA award for the best undergraduate thesis in teacher education in Scotalnd.
Mrs Fuller graduated with a BEd (Hons) First Class Honours from the University of Dundee in June 2008. Her thesis entitled ‘Tots: Trop Tôt?’ – ‘Should Foreign Language Learning begin in Primary 1?’ was an insightful investigation into whether language learning should commence as early as primary one.
http://www.gtcs.org.uk/News/perth_kinross_teacher_wins_george_d_gray_award.aspx?
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival runs from 8-21 February and has some fantastic and affordable screenings, events and workshops for school classes from Early Years up to S6. Thanks to the continuing generosity of Glasgow City Council, all events are free to Glasgow local authority schools throughout the festival.
The Festival programme of dedicated schools screenings and workshops has been programmed with the school curriculum and qualifications in mind. Many events are enhanced by learning and teaching resources or are led by expert speakers and facilitators to ensure pupils get the most from their experience.
Go to www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/schools for full details and to book
The details of the UK virtual competition can be found by visiting the Innovative Teachers Network (ITN) and the top ten entries will be invited to the UK Innovative Teacher Forum to be held in Microsoft Reading on 20th February 2009 to share ideas and for selection to go forward to the European round (travel and expenses will be paid by Microsoft).
The ITN contains further details of the competition, examples of best practice and a forum to discuss the competition and pose questions. Entries will be sought that demonstrate technology making a difference in the classroom, are innovative and are transferrable in enhancing the learning & teaching practice of other teachers. The closing date is 1 February 2009.
Presentations from the SALT conference held last month can be viewed from the Scottish CILT website
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