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  Jennifer Sked 5:36 pm on March 6, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: competition, east lothian ( 9 ), educational; ( 6 ), Events ( 15 ), festival ( 3 ), science ( 6 ), workshops ( 3 )   

  Dunbar SciFest 2013 

  

   

   Dunbar Science Festival 2013

  Monday 11 – Sunday 17 March 2013

    

  We are offering a full Education Programme as part of Dunbar SciFest 2013.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

  Monday 11 – Thursday 14 March

  Generation Science, the education outreach programme of Edinburgh International Science Festival, will be providing 25 workshops (4 age-specific themes) within the two campuses of Dunbar PS for 1,700 pupils from 5 cluster schools.

  Friday 15 March Morning

  5 Science stage shows for schools at Dunbar PS’s 2 campuses Lochend campus for 1,000 P4 – P7 pupils: 2 x Dr Bunhead “Dr Bunhead’s Exploding Energy Show” John Muir Campus for 1,000 Nursery & P1-3 pupils: 2 x Science Shows for Schools  “The Best Bubble Show” John Muir Campus for 180 deaf and hard of hearing pupils from throughout Edinburgh & Lothians: 1 x  Science Museum, London, SIGNtific show “Fantastic Forces”  presented in British Sign Language.

    

  Thursday 14March	Dunbar Conversations evening event in Dunbar Community Centre: Guest panel & audience will be discussing ‘Supporting a Scottish Science Revival – stimulating our wee bairns to become inventors, innovators and super scientists’.
  Friday 15March	Lennoxlove Book Festival, Dunbar SciFest & Dunbar Library evening event: Forensic Fiction – An evening with Scottish crime writer Lin Anderson and forensic psychologist Kathy Charles.
  Saturday 16March	Café Scientifique event in Dunbar Community Centre: ‘Enjoy a series of 4 short, snappy presentations on a selection of Scottish scientific research: Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, Brain Scanning, and Marine Mammals”

    

  In the meantime, you can download the full Dunbar SciFest 2013 Programme from our website: http://www.dunbarscifest.org.uk– click on the link below the App Store.

   Please see below for the full programme information and the festival booking form

  Booking Form

  Dunbar-SciFest-2013-EDF-Education-Programme-for-ELC-Schools-04.03.13

   
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  Jennifer Sked 4:27 pm on January 15, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: awards ( 7 ), competition, eco ( 6 ), educational; ( 6 ), environment ( 4 ), Global Citizenship ( 5 )   

  Climate Week 

  

   

  Climate Week

  Britain’s Biggest Climate Change Campaign

  4 to 10 March 2013

   

  Do you have an event or activity planned for Climate Week 2013? Register now at http://www.climateweek.com. By registering your event, you can help build a social movement for change, encourage others in your area to run their own event, and profile the fantastic work that you are doing. All registered events appear on our online map, so this is your chance to shine 

  Backed by the Prime Minister, Paul McCartney, the NAHT and the Met office to name a few, Climate Week is a supercharged national campaign to inspire a new wave of action on climate change. It culminates in thousands of events and activities, planned by organisations from every sector of society. During the last Climate Week, over 3,000 events were attended by half a million people across the UK for the second successive year. 

   No event planned yet? You can register now for the Climate Week Challenge, Britain’s biggest environmental competition. The Challenge is open to all ages, can be done on any day during Climate Week and it is completely free to take part. Over 130,000 people participated in 2012 in a challenge to come up with an idea to green a local space and make it more environmentally friendly. The entries were judged by a celebrity panel and the winners went on to take part in workshops organized by industry and business leaders.

   

  Whatever you do, don’t forget to tell us about it! You can help to build a movement for change by sharing your Climate Week activities at http://www.climateweek.com/run-an-event/register-an-event/ 

  To find out more about Climate Week go to http://www.climateweek.com, email info@climateweek.com or telephone on 020 3397 2601.

   
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  mary horsburgh 3:49 pm on March 7, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: competition, diamond jubilee, food   

  A very special opportunity for Scottish schools through the Cook for The Queen competition! 

  To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, British Food Fortnight is inviting all schools in the UK to create a special menu featuring recipes that celebrate the best of British to be served to The Queen and The Duchess of Cornwall at a reception at Buckingham Palace in June.

  Taking part is easy! All schools have to do is design a menu fit for The Queen that celebrates the food produced in your part of the country. See http://www.lovebritishfood.co.uk/about-british-food-fortnight/cook-for-the-queen/ for details.

  The competition is open to 10 – 15 year olds in all primary and secondary schools in the UK and closing date for entries is Monday 30th April.

  Moreover, as well as the chance to be invited to Buckingham Palace in June to see their winning recipes brought to life and help serve them at a reception attended by The Queen, 4 Scottish schools entering the competition also have the opportunity to show off their entries at Holyroodhouse Palace in May!

  If your school is interested in this fantastic opportunity at Holyroodhouse, please contact Danielle on info@lovebritishfood.co.uk for more details.

   
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  j-bar03 2:15 pm on January 23, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: competition, IT ( 3 )   

  Primary and junior schools are invited to enter the Make it Happy http://makeithappy.cc4g.net competition with this year’s theme being ‘Make it Healthy’.

  The aim is to reward the innovative and creative use of IT to link schools with other members of their community. The projects could reflect an interest in physical health, or emotional and mental wellbeing.

  They could be confined to pupils and teachers, or they could involve parents and carers. They could even go out to the community – locally, nationally or internationally, perhaps via passing on information or by connecting with healthcare facilities.

  There will be 9 regional winners across England and one winner from each of: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each receiving a prize of £1200. Each of these winners will be invited to a special day in London, including a trip on the London Eye, a tour of the Houses of Parliament and a special awards ceremony and tea with MPs and Peers in the Members’ Dining Room. In addition there will be overall first, second and third prizes selected from the 12 winners who will receive the following cash prizes: 1st prize – £4000; 2nd prize – £2500; and 3rd prize – £1500. The closing date for the competition is the 8th April 2012.

   
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  Martyn Pegg 2:40 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: competition, orienteering ( 3 ), outdoor education ( 3 ), Outdoor Learning ( 11 )   

  Primary School Orienteering Competition 

  East Lothian’s Primary School Orienteering Competition 2012

  Thursday 1st March 2012

   

  Please come along and have your school represented at East Lothian School’s premier Orienteering Event.

  • Entry Free to all East Lothian Primary Schools
  • Two courses – P4/5 (compete in pairs) and P6/7 (compete as individuals)
  • John Muir Country Park (map)
  • Registration open from 10am to 2pm
  • Course closes at 3pm

   

  Please give notification of numbers and approximate arrival time to Martyn mpegg@eastlothian.gov.uk as soon as possible.

  For reports on previous years orienteering competitions please click here

  The accompanying staff with the children will only be needed to supervise the children in the registration area – not any orienteering. Please be aware that this is a competition and there will be no time for teaching of basic orienteering skills during the day. All competitors must have previous orienteering experience.

  If you are a member of school staff that would like to know more about teaching orienteering in school then please book onto the Teaching Orienteering Course

   

   
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  Seabird Centre 10:29 am on September 26, 2011 Permalink
  Tags: art ( 5 ), competition, east lothian ( 9 ), marine, schools ( 3 ), Scottish Seabird Centre ( 2 ), seabirds   

  Ppp pick up your pencils ….Art competition 

   

  Would you like to see your artwork on sale at the award-winning Scottish Seabird Centre?

  The Centre is looking for young artists to come up with a new design for their popular line in tea towels, using the marine life, seabirds and the seaside as inspiration. We are looking for a colourful A4 picture from P1- P7 pupils from across East Lothian.

  Judging the Centre’s first ever tea towel design competition will be local artist Jane Alexander who has an eye for young artistic talent.

  The winning design will be made into a tea towel which will go on sale in the gift shop: the winner will also receive a bag of goodies from the shop, as will the two runners up.

  The closing date for entries is 28 October – schools can have multiple entries, but only one per child. There is no cost for entering. For full terms and conditions, please visit the education section at http://www.seabird.org/education.asp

   
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  mary horsburgh 3:41 pm on May 4, 2011 Permalink
  Tags: art and design, competition   

  TARTAN DESIGN COMPETITION FOR 2014 COMMONWEALTH GAMES 

  Please find attached letter from Learning and Teaching Scotland giving information on a competition to design the official tartan for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow in 2014.Dir of Educ tartan letter KL

   
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  David Gilmour 5:06 pm on December 6, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: competition, Google ( 2 ), Google Science Fair, international education ( 5 ), STEM   

  The Google Science Fair is coming… 

  Google’s first Science Fair has just been announced via the Google Teacher Newsletter.

  On 11 January, 2011, we are launching the inaugural Google Science Fair. We have partnered with NASA, CERN, National Geographic, Scientific American and the LEGO Group to create a new STEM competition that is more open, accessible and global than ever before. We are reaching out to educators prior to launch to let you know “the Google Science Fair is coming” and to extend an invitation to schools and teachers to get involved early in our global competition.  

  To sign up for fun and free resource kits for your classroom or school (with bookmarks, stickers, posters and more!) and a reminder notification when GSF registration opens, please visit the Google Science Fair at: http://www.google.com/sciencefair

  The Google Science Fair is a global competition that any student aged 13 – 18 from around the world is eligible to enter. Students can enter as individuals or as teams of up to three. There is no entry fee and registration and submission will happen online. The deadline for submissions will be the 4 April, 2011. The Science Fair will culminate in a “once in a lifetime” celebratory event at Google headquarters in California in July 2011 where finalists will compete for internships, scholarships and prizes in front of a panel of celebrity scientist judges including Nobel Laureates, tech visionaries and household names.

  We want to celebrate and champion great young scientific talent and give students from around the world the opportunity to compete for amazing experiences, prizes, scholarships and internships.  We hope you are as excited about this upcoming competition as we are are!

   
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  David Gilmour 10:52 am on November 19, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: competition, design ( 3 ), music ( 10 ), youth music forum   

  Think up a new name for the East Lothian Youth Music Forum! 

  

  East Lothian Council is calling on children and young people to think up a new name for the East Lothian Youth Music Forum.

  Those aged 0 – 25 are offered a prize of £100 worth of Amazon vouchers to help rebrand the Forum. They are invited to become involved, having a say in what it’s called and how it looks by suggesting new names and even designing a logo – on paper or with a computer.

   The East Lothian Youth Music Forum was set up in 2007 with the key objective of supporting and encouraging music activities in East Lothian’s schools and in the wider community for those aged 0 – 25. Iain Bruce, East Lothian Strategic Music Partnership Coordinator, says ‘We want the Forum and related activities to be easily identifiable by children and young people. We’ve got lots of ideas for regenerating the Youth Music Forum and we’re looking forward to having young people contribute, starting with giving it a name. The views and aspirations of children and young people are of course vital to the Forum and we welcome and value their input.’

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  mary horsburgh 11:29 am on October 13, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: charities ( 2 ), competition, ICT ( 3 )   

  PhonesRUs – East Linton Primary School Appeal for Mobile Phones 

  East Linton Primary School are collecting mobile phones for a competition to win the new activotes for their school. They will be able to interact with their whiteboards even better. However, they need to collect 250 mobile phones so please could you help them by sending your old phones to Ben and Eloise at East Linton Primary School. East Linton is a small school so it would be a big achievement if all the council could help them.
  As well as us getting Activotes, money is donated to ChildLine and you get to be very eco friendly by recycling.
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