Scottish Learning Festival News

Keynote speech and interview with Professor Ferre Laevers now available on SLF website.

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Remember to check-in with TeachmeetSLF09 that gathers from 6.00pm till 9.00pm Wednesday 23 September at BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA

Short presentations, chat and social networking (in person) will be happening.

Twitter #tmslf09

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Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, seminar C1A: Building the Curriculum: A Framework for Assessment had to be cancelled.

The SLF team apologises for any disappointment caused, and hope that you will find plenty to interest you within the rest of the programme.

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The national Glow Meet with Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning was a real success.

Over 700 pupils and teachers joined in to hear the Cabinet Secretary speak about why she is proud to be Scottish. She then took questions from the Glow audience, hearing from classes from as far apart as Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway.

If you’d like a chance to view a recording of the Glow Meet, it can be found on the SLF Extra Glow Group (Glow login required).

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Young Radiowaves reporters from Rimbleton Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School are looking forward to visiting SLF 2009  and interviewing V.I.P.s, teachers, guests and even some exhibitors.

The interviews will be posted on the Scottish Learning Festival channel on the Radiowaves website.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to the  RSS feed to be kept up to date with any new podcasts as they are posted.

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In advance of her keynote speech at SLF 2009, Fiona Hyslop will be hosting a Glow Meet for Scottish schools from Gavinburn Primary School in West Dunbartonshire.

The Glow Meet will take place on the September 15, 2009 between 1pm and 2pm.  Ms Hyslop will be speaking about why she is proud to be Scottish. She is inviting pupils from schools across the country to contribute by asking questions via Glow Meet.

To sign up your class to watch or to take part in the question and answer session, please visit the SLF Extra Glow Group (Glow login required).

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The Healthier Scotland Focus on Food Cooking Bus is attending The Scottish Learning Festival to showcase its work.

The Cooking Bus travels throughout Scotland teaching pupils, teachers, parents and community members cooking skills, healthier eating, food safety and hygiene and where food comes from.

At SLF, delegates can sign up for a training workshop.  This session may be of particular interest to primary teachers as it support them in terms of some of the skills required for implementation of the practical ‘hands on’ element of the Food and Health framework within Curriculum for Excellence.

The session will take place at 10.45 and will last approx 1 hour. There will be one workshop per day.

To sign up for an exemplar workshop please call 01422 383191or email joanne@designdimension.org or carlie@designdimension.org.

Fear Not! If the sessions are fully booked you can sit outside the front of the Bus and watch the exemplar workshop on our outside TV screen.

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With the start of the new term, it is time for us to mail your SLF delegate badge and copy of SLF News.

 To help reduce the carbon footprint of the event seminar tickets are not being issued this year. Your delegate badge has information about the sessions you have booked for and will give you entry into the exhibition and conference sessions.

Delegate packs will be mailed out at the start of September, look out for yours in the post. The mailing will also contain a copy of SLF News, which gives you all the latest information about what to see and do and will help you plan your day at SLF 2009.

You can view an online version of SLF News.

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Here is an update to original post ‘Fully booked seminars‘.

The latest sessions to become full are:

• S1C: Leadership in a Time of Change
• E1G: ‘A Space Adventure’ – A Cross-curricular Approach Fostering Curriculum for Excellence Principles
• A2G: Curriculum for Excellence: Essential Features of Effective Support for all Children and Young People
• L2H: A Tapestry of Learning: Teaching for Understanding (TfU) and AifL
• N1B: Improving Learning – Improving Literacy
• C1A: Building the Curriculum: A Framework for Assessment
• D2G: Mathematics and Numeracy: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice
• S1A: Outdoor Learning Developing Confident Individuals
• B2A: Exciting Writing. Closing the Attainment Gender Gap using Collaborative, Active and Interactive Approaches to Writing
• S1B: Engaging with Curriculum for Excellence – Small Steps to Success in Primary Schools
• B2G: Making Glow and Curriculum for Excellence Work Together
• E1Y: Interdisciplinary Project, 3-15, with the Main Focus on Science and Technology
• S1G: Curriculum for Excellence: Transformational Change – Pipedream or Possibility?

You can check on the website to find up to date details of fully booked seminars.

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Details of this session have been revised and it will now be presented by Ollie Bray, National Adviser, Emerging Technologies and Derek Robertson, National Adviser: Learning and Teaching Futures, Learning and Teaching Scotland.

The spotlight will focus on ‘Understanding the new learning landscape’.  More details

You can change your booking Edit your booking online or call the ticket hotline on 0870 421 1938.