The Merchant City Festival runs from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September, City Centre, Glasgow
For those of you visiting Glasgow for the Learning Festival, why not extend your stay to take in the wide variety of international performances and exhibitions that are in the Merchant City Festival programme.

There is an urban feel to the festival, that includes street theatre, music, dance, comedy and visual arts. In addition, there will be the return of the hugely popular French Market in Candleriggs.

 Download the programme from the Merchant City Festival website (PDF file: 4.5 MB)

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Categories: Expressive arts, International education

The last pathway brochures are now online.  Brochures available for:

• Curriculum for Excellence
• Health and Wellbeing
• Assessment, Achievement and National Qualifications
• Scottish World View
• More Choices, More Chances

 It is hoped that these brochures will assist in your decisions about which seminars to book. Let us know if they do?

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Now that schools are back, your delegate badge and seminar tickets will be mailed out shortly. Monday 1 September is the last chance for you to amend your registration details before your badge and seminar tickets are mailed to you.
To add sessions or amend your registration details, visit the log-in page for registered users.

Also, online registration will close at midday on Tuesday 23rd September.  Anyone wishing to book after this time will have to come along to the SECC and register onsite.

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Jesse Rae and Brick FM will be broadcasting live by ISDN  from the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.

Presented by the ‘POWER GROUP’ of two schools in the Borders (One primary and one secondary), they will turn the SECC into a Global Radio Station, connecting with schools as far away as Africa and the USA.  Individuals or groups of students from other countries will be invited to take turns at presenting their own programmes. This will be in the form of reading, singing, music and in their own language.
The ‘POWER GROUP’ back in Scotland will record the Global shows in real time and cut live to CD for the broadcast around Glasgow area on Brick FM 105.5 FM.

 A live feed will be available via the Scottish Learning Festival website during the event and Jesse Rae will present the seminar ‘Be yer sel’ on Wednesday 24 September at 1.30 pm.

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The Scottish Cooking Bus will be stationed in the exhibition hall in the new Health and Wellbeing Zone on both days.  A wide range of activities will take place on the bus, including pupil workshops. Further details to follow soon.

The Scottish Cooking Bus is funded by the Scottish Government in partnership with the Food Standards Agency (Scotland). The aim of the cooking bus is:

• To inform healthy eating messages to school children in an engaging way by providing interactive cooking sessions during term time and taking part in projects during the school holidays.
• To take account of the needs and views of disadvantaged groups and reduce inequalities by enabling and encouraging cooking skills and giving people confidence and independent living skills.

The bus is available for schools and community groups to book for a visit please visit www.focusonfood.org for further information.

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For those that could not attend the LTS Inspiration Session yesterday (11/08/08) on learning how to improve presentations, there are online bookmarks (via delicious) for the videos that were shown, and a list of supplementary resources can be accessed.

An overview of this event, and others in the series, is on the Connected Live blog: (LTS Inspiration Sessions: Run your own) - Scroll down to Month 4.  Comments welcome.

These lunchtime sessions were based around the world famous TED Talks, followed by debate and discussion about the video clip and how it relates to our work or education in general.  For a personal response to this session see Andrew Brown’s blog.

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See the proposed designs for the Scottish Education Village for this year.

See full size image from front on website I See full size image from above on website.

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George Street Research was commissioned to undertake the evaluation of the Scottish Learning Festival 2007.  The evaluation sought opinions from attendees and a range of key stakeholders - exploring the development of the Festival to date, and informing the planning for future events.

Summary details are available in the Research section of the About LTS website.

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More pathway brochures have just come online.  Brochures now available for:

• Keynote speakers
• Glow
• Primary
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Enterprise in Education
• Twilight session

All these brochures bring together a range of activities from seminars to Topic surgeries or sessions on the Scottish Education Village.

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See the Pathway brochures page  for latest brochures, including one for Early Years practitioners and Secondary teachers. These brochures bring together a range of activities from seminars to Topic surgeries or sessions on the Scottish Education Village.

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