Glow Scotland

June 30th, 2011

New Resource in Glow

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, National Groups, Pupils

Where was tea once used as money?
Why do we use coins?
What can you find on a banknote?
How do banks keep cash safe?

Find the answers to all of these questions in Glow’s new resource Beads, Bawbees and Banknotes!

Beads, Bawbees and Banknotes is an interdisciplinary resource about MONEY, produced by the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh.

It takes the form of five Powerpoint presentations with associated video clips, and is intended for flexible use by teachers and pupils.

Please feel free to save, edit and adapt the presentations for use in the classroom, and print off images for study and display purposes.

The resource is aimed loosely at upper primary pupils. However, it can be adapted for any age group or level, and has potential as a transitional tool.

In addition a disc with folders of high-resolution images and other additional material will allow you to study the design of coins, banknotes and old savings adverts more closely. This disc will be available from the Museum on the Mound - [email protected] shortly or visit their website Museum on the Mound.

Beads, Bawbees and Banknotes will be a valuable addition to any Financial Education work that you undertake in the new term.

June 28th, 2011

Glow Light Image 27.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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West Lothian Council

Julia is in P5 at Our Lady of Lourdes Primary in West Lothian, her teacher says that she loves Glow and regularly post to the class and school blog and uploads pictures to her class page. She completes her spelling and maths homework in Glow and emails Glow challenges to her teacher.

On a Sunday Julia can’t wait to see what the Glow Light picture will be and she decided to design her own Glow Light image after Health week in school.

June 20th, 2011

Scotland’s Got the Glow Factor

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow Meet, Pupils

Yes it is back again! The event that allows pupils from across Scotland to entertain the nation. We already know that Scotland has got talent but has it got the Glow Factor?
Why not join us on Thursday 23rd June from 1.45 - 2.45pm for our final Glowing Thursday of this term and enjoy the talent that the young people across Scotland have?
You are more than welcome to join us as an audience member or perform for us on the day - you can let us know when you sign up in the Glowing Thursday group.

June 19th, 2011

Glow Light Image 20.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Each week, as a reward for good behaviour, pupils at Greengairs Primary, North Lanarkshire, are offered opportunities to participate in a wide variety of activities. Amongst these is a photography club. Older pupils support younger children and they enjoy capturing images from around the school environment. On a typical spring day when sunshine followed a shower of rain the children went outdoors to practice their skills in the school grounds. Nicholas S, P3, noticed that raindrops were lying on the leaves of plant and used the zoom facility on his camera to get this close-up shot. He was delighted with the photograph when he downloaded it. With the encouragement of his teacher he decided to enter it into the competition organised for North Lanarkshire pupils to submit images for the Glow Light screen.

Image: Nicholas S., P3 Greengairs Primary School/Text: Donna Scott, Greengairs Primary School

June 13th, 2011

Cooking in Glow Meet

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Meet, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils

Join us for our final Simple Act of this year where we will be Cooking a Dish from Another Country.

Tickle your taste buds with new sensations as we cook a dish from Iraq, with the special ingredient of Cardomom. Follow us step by step as you too make Iraqi Cardomom Cookies. The scent of a country can be realised through its food, so let the smell fill the air and enjoy the cookies.

The recipe for the cookies can be found when you sign up and you can either choose to bake along with Victoria from the Refugee Council or make them afterwards - either way you’ll have wonderful cookies to eat at the end of the day!

Sign up and join us on Wednesday 15th June from 11- 12pm in the Simple Acts Glow Group.

June 13th, 2011

Glowing Thursdays - Global Citizenship

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow Meet

Using Malawi as a context, this Glowing Thursday will explore Global Citizenship through an interactive CPD session for primary teachers. We will reflect on what it means to be a Global Citizen in the 21st century and think about how Education for Global Citizenship can help young people to meet the challenges now and in the future of our interdependent world.

Drawing on materials and activities from a new Scotdec resource pack Failte Malawi, teachers will also have the opportunity to think about how images can be used to challenge our perceptions of places and to consider how we can measure the impact of this learning on children’s attitudes.

Failte Malawi has been written in recognition of the number of schools in Scotland which have a connection with, or interest in Malawi. It uses Malawi as a context for learning about rights, exploring Global Citizenship and to challenge perceptions and stereotypes of the world beyond the everyday experience of most pupils and teachers in Scotland. The resource has been designed to support the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence, and exemplify its principles and aims. Activities have been devised for primary schools at both level 1 and 2. The resource covers four topics: water, food and farming, homes, and toys.

Although focussed on one country, this professional development opportunity is relevant to primary schools exploring links and learning about other cultures regardless of where they are in the world.

Sign up and join us on Thursday 16th June from 3.45 - 4.45pm in Glowing Thursdays.

June 12th, 2011

Glow Light Image 13.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Dressing Table

This week’s image is one of the winners in a competition held by North Lanarkshire Council to select their images for Glow Light. It was created by Louise Mc C. from Braidhurst High School.

This type of picture is known as a ‘still life’. A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural, food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells, or man-made, drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on. With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.

In the last three decades of the 20th century, and in the early years of the 21st century still life has expanded beyond the boundary of a frame. Especially in the wake of the computer age, and the rise of Computer art and Digital art the nature and definition of still life has changed. Some mixed media still life work employing found objects, photography, video, and sound, and even spilling out from ceiling to floor, and filling an entire room in a gallery. Computer-generated graphics have expanded the techniques available to still life artists. With the use of the video camera, still life artists can even incorporate the viewer into their work.

Do you think this picture was drawn by hand or was computer generated? It is so beautifully drawn it is hard to tell!

Image: Louise McC., S5 Braidhurst High School/Text: Wikipedia

June 6th, 2011

Surreal Encounters in Glowing Thursdays

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Co-Create, Creativity Portal, Curriculum for Excellence, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Meet, Pupils

This week Glowing Thursday is aimed at encouraging pupils and teachers to explore the interesting and rather unreal world of Surrealism.

Join us for a peek into the weird and wonderful world of Surrealism…. .what it is and who did it.
We’ll be challenging you to take part in some quick fire tasks, in the hope of learning just what made the Surrealists tick. To take part in this fun glow meet you will need to organize a few things beforehand which you can find when you sign up. During the event you will be able to work along with the artists or watch and try it out later.

Sign up and join us on Thursday 9th June from 11-12pm in the Glowing Thursdays meeting room.

June 6th, 2011

Working in Journalism

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Meet, Skills Development Scotland

This World of Work Wednesday will explore some of the employment opportunities that exist in journalism. It will be presented by three key journalists live from the brand new GlowTV studio in the Optima.

Andrea Pearson is a journalist with the “Daily What” which is based at the Herald. She is an accomplished journalist who has worked with the Herald for many years.
The “Daily What” is an online newspaper funded by the Scottish Government and LTS and it publishes 5 articles a week and is read by thousands of teachers and pupils all across Scotland. It has also been accessed by people as far and wide as Alaska and Thailand!

Neil Murray is an accomplished sports writer who has written for almost every national paper in Scotland. He began his career writing mostly for the Sun and News of the World before moving on to a traineeship with a Sports Agency. He has interviewed SPL players and managers on a weekly basis, covering top games and dealt with some of the most prominent names in Scottish Football.

Glenn Tam has spent close to a decade working in the media industry in China and is currently Director of Public Relations and Circulation at Shanghai Daily, the city¹s official English newspaper. He will be dialling in from China!

It is an exciting collection of successful journalists and they will talk about their daily work commitments to give an overview of the work involved. They will also outline their own career paths and the work they have done in the past that has lead them to the posts that they currently hold.

It will be a perfect opportunity for those interested in journalism to find out more and ask questions about the routes into the job.

Sign up and join us in the World of Work Wednesday National Glow Group.

June 5th, 2011

Glow Light Image 6.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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The Clyde Arc, Glasgow

This week’s image has ben supplied by North Lanarkshire Council.

It ws taken by Danielle A., S6 Braidhurst High School

The Clyde Arc (known locally as the Squinty Bridge), is a road bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, in west central Scotland, connecting Finnieston, near the Clyde Auditorium and SECC with Pacific Quay and Glasgow Science Centre in Govan. A prominent feature of the bridge is its innovative curved design and the way that it crosses the river at an angle. The Arc is the first city centre traffic crossing over the river built since the Kingston Bridge was opened to traffic in 1969.

The bridge was named the “Clyde Arc” upon its official opening on 18 September 2006. It has been previously known as the “Finnieston Bridge” or the “Squinty Bridge”.

Image: Danielle A., S6 Braidhurst High School/Text: Wikipedia