Archive for June, 2009
- June 26th, 2009
Environmental prize for Edinburgh school
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Currie Community High School has won the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy. Its approach includes a wind turbine to generate power for the school, and a variety of energy conservation measures to reduce the building’s consumption. A BBC story gives more detail.
More- June 26th, 2009
Science success for Glasgow pupils
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Interest in their baby cousins’ nappies has brought victory for two pupils at Smithycroft Secondary School, Glasgow, in the Xperimania school competition. The ‘Check out the property!’ competition, run via the Xperimania website aimed to promote science education with easy and fun experiments on properties, materials and their impact on daily life.
In their winning work, Jack M and Nicola B investigated and tested the properties of disposable baby nappies, and discovered the material – polyacrylate – which makes nappies water absorbent.
Almost 900 secondary school students from 20 European countries participated. The school wins 2000 Euro.
Xperimania is organised by the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (Appe), and coordinated by European Schoolnet on their behalf. All schools in the European Union and candidate countries can participate in this free programme.
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- June 24th, 2009
Europe - speaking competition
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Pupils from Scottish schools taking part in a Speaking Competition, organised each year by the Scottish European Educational Trust, strongly urged the Scottish public to vote in future European Parliament elections.
The competition, held at the office of the European Parliament in Edinburgh on 16th June, was won by two pupils from Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow. They stressed the serious consequences for democracy of continuing voters’ apathy. Other teams taking part were from the Highlands, West and Central Scotland.
Young Scot have offered a day’s training in making a podcast as a prize.
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- June 23rd, 2009
Scottish Education Awards winners
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Congratulations to all the winners, and the participants, in the 2009 Scottish Education Awards. The Awards ceremony was held last week in Glasgow, and a list of the winners and finalists is on the SEA website.
I’ll highlight the winners associated with developing global citizenship in Scottish education:
- Perth High School won in the ‘International Schools’ category
- St Paul’s High School in Glasgow won the ‘Active Citizenship’ category
- St Leonard’s Nursery School in Edinburgh won the ‘Greener Schools’ category
- Iochdar Primary School in South Uist won the ‘Homecoming’ award
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