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Schools are invited to take part in Glow Book Month.  This consists of: Competition (Literacy) – enter & win prizes for your stories & poems Competition (Art) – design a book cover Glow TV – take part in National Glow Meets and meet and collaborate with authors Published – have your story/poem published in an ebook  The authors taking part…[Read more]

Education Scotland, the new national body responsible for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching from early years to adult and community learning, has recently published the first issue of its newsletter.  The link to the newsletter and to other areas, for example support and resources for teaching and learning, can be found on [...]

The Scottish Children’s Book Awards (formerly Royal Mail Awards) shortlist was announced recently.  Now schools, classes, book groups and individuals can register to take part and vote for their favourite book. CALL Scotland, based at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, can provide accessible digital and audio versions of the…[Read more]

Whose Town? is an innovative resource for teaching social studies. A fun and interactive digital resource which brings Edinburgh’s history to life, it has been made available to all Glow users.  It can be found in the Whose Town? Glow Group and accessed from the Glow National Site notice board. The resource is built on the City [...]

SLAINTE (Information & Libraries Scotland) http://www.slainte.org.uk/news/newsindex.htm SLAINTE reports that the Scottish Government Household Annual Survey for 2009/10 has confirmed that reading for pleasure was by far the most common cultural activity in 2009/2010 with 62% of adults saying that they had read for pleasure during that time. This…[Read more]

 The Scottish Poetry Library has some ideas and resources for National Poetry Day on 6 October.  Visit http://www.readingroom.spl.org.uk/poetry_issues/issue_25.htm for directions to: pdf posters to download of all 8 poems in this year’s National Poetry Day (Scotland) postcards sets of ideas for teaching, reading and writing activities booking…[Read more]

Tyne and Esk Writers are running a young writers’ short story workshop for ages 10 – 14 years in the Town House, Haddington, on Saturday, 10th September 2011, from 11am – 1pm.  Places for this are limited and should be booked through Haddington Library, telephone number 01620 822531.  The workshop will be tutored by Tyne and [...]

An exciting competition for primary school children offers the chance to set the scene for a new adventure by award-winning Scottish children’s author Lari Don. The Edinburgh-based author will launch the competition on Thursday 23 June.  Children are invited to suggest the perfect real-life Scottish location to be used in the fourth, and final…[Read more]

The CfE and Glow News e-update provides updates on Curriculum for Excellence and support for practitioners, along with all the latest developments within Glow. Articles in the June issue of CfE and Glow News  include: Curriculum for Excellence Management Board Senior phase statement New materials available on NAR STEM Central – Making…[Read more]

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Learning and Teaching Scotland has developed a Financial Learning Online Scotland Resource Starter Kit to support people who are starting to deliver financial capability to adults and young people.

The Resource Starter Kit activities are available to download from the FLO…[Read more]

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) has launched its 2011-2012 programme of free workshops and Glow Meet sessions for primary and secondary schools. New topics include ‘Tartan: a Chequered Tale’, ‘Witches on Trial’ and ‘Scottish Census Records’.  Senior secondary students may be interested in ‘Study Skills – using primary sources’, and new…[Read more]

GLOW MEET: Literacy and English: Write at Home Date: 21st of June Time: 3pm to 4pm Topic: The Write at Home project. The speaker will be Debbie Gardner of Garnock Academy who was involved in Write at Home (a project assisting writing across all sectors) when she was a teacher at Greenwood Academy. She is now [...]

GLOW MEET: Literacy and English: Write at Home Date: 21st of June Time: 3pm to 4pm Topic: The Write at Home project. The speaker will be Debbie Gardner of Garnock Academy who was involved in Write at Home (a project assisting writing across all sectors) when she was a teacher at Greenwood Academy. She is [...]

 The Scottish Poetry Library has published issue 23 of Poetry Issues. Visit http://www.readingroom.spl.org.uk/poetry_issues/issue_23.htm for: New poetry titles for acquisition pdf poster of a poem in praise of libraries by Alasdair Paterson and some handy sites and resources for working with young writers and readers National Poetry Day…[Read more]

Scottish Book Trust has just opened applications for the 2011 Young Writers Awards. They’re looking for three teenagers to be mentored by an established teen author between October 2011 and February 2012. They will meet with their mentor, and each other, five times over the six month period, develop their creative writing, meet agents and [...]

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/stemcentral/index.asp This new resource from Learning and Teaching Scotland is packed with ideas and resources and links to help you create learning experiences that bring STEM subjects to your pupils. Using the focus of engineering, the STEM Central website offers stimulating and challenging experiences for sciences,…[Read more]

Scots Words and Place-names (SWAP) is running a competition for all school pupils in Scotland during June. The competition is open to all ages and aims to get people talking about the Scots language in their classrooms, as well as using it outside of them. Everyone on Glow will get a chance to read the best pieces [...]

  Learning and Teaching Scotland, in conjunction with the Scottish Book Trust, has commissioned Blake Stevenson to carry out a research project .  The research will look at the impact of author events on the confidence, enjoyment and attainment of young people’s literacy skills in primary and secondary schools across Scotland. In order to provide…[Read more]

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/publications/c/publication_tcm4662740.asp?strReferringChannel=understandingthecurriculum&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-613276-64 A statement has been published by the Curriculum for Excellence Management Board outlining the vision, principles and framework for delivery of the senior phase in Curriculum for Excellence and…[Read more]

The  Glow Science website has just been updated with 130 new short films focussing on chemistry and physics, and covering everything from the periodic table to Newton’s laws of motion.  Supported by learning materials and ideal for revision purposes, these short films will motivate and engage learners. Glow Science covers the four science…[Read more]