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  Jennifer Sked 5:36 pm on March 6, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: competition ( 13 ), east lothian ( 9 ), educational;, 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 5:10 pm on February 25, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: activities ( 8 ), awards ( 7 ), Competiton ( 3 ), educational;, literacy ( 7 ), literacy and english ( 12 ), maths ( 2 )   

  The World Education Games 2013 

  

   

  The World Education Games are taking place on the 5-7^th March 2013 and we anticipate over 5.5 million pupils participating from around the globe and this year .  Pupils will even be attempting to become triple World Record Breakers too!  Enter World Education Games 2013!

   It is open to both primary & secondary schools and, as you may know, East Lothian pupils have competed extremely well in the past. 

   The Games incorporate, World Literacy Day, World Maths Day and World Science Day so there is something for everyone.

   
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  Jennifer Sked 4:27 pm on January 15, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: awards ( 7 ), competition ( 13 ), eco ( 6 ), educational;, 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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  Jennifer Sked 4:16 pm on January 15, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: charities ( 2 ), educational;, environment ( 4 ), history ( 2 )   

  Developing Global Citizens newsletter (January 2013) 

   

   

   

   Developing Global Citizens Newsletter

   

  Welcome to the January newsletter

  The DGC team wishes you a Happy New Year.  If you have any queries about the content of our bulletins or general global citizenship inquiries feel free to contact us: GlobalCitizens@educationscotland.gov.uk.

   

  Win a visit from Clyde, the Glasgow 2014 Mascot, to your school or establishment.   Closing date: 1 February 2013.

   

  Find out about the Year of Natural Scotland 2013 and how your school can get involved.

  Learning for Sustainability – the report of the One Planet Schools Working Group, was published in December.

  The report includes strategic recommendations to support the development of coherent whole school approaches to ensure that learning for sustainability, global citizenship and outdoor learning are experienced in a transformative way by every learner in every school across Scotland.

   

  The charity, Speakers for Schools, has teamed up with Glow TV to webcast a range of talks happening at schools in Scotland. Find out about upcoming talks.

   

   

  Scottish schools invited to support conservation project to save the Eastern Imperial Eagle.

  Holocaust Memorial Day is on 27 January. Glasgow City Council will lead national commemorations in Scotland and your school can be involved via Glow. Find out more.

   

  Videos of the month

  

  My year with Clyde

  For a positive, non commercial clip to make you believe in humanity and young people and creativity take 3 mins to watch the Landfill Harmonic video clip

   

   
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  Jennifer Sked 4:51 pm on December 12, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: educational;, library ( 3 ), primary ( 5 )   

  Library Services Homework Club 

  Volunteers needed for Homework Clubs

  Homework clubs are a new service from East Lothian Libraries, which will be launched in January 2013. They consist of a 1.5 to 2-hour drop-in session, run by a Volunteer Homework Club Leader with the assistance of a Volunteer Homework Club Helper. Primary School Children can come and do their homework at their local library where they would benefit from space to study, access to a wide selection of books, online resources, word processing and supervised internet access. 

  The volunteers would supervise children, support them in completing their homework, assist them with using the range of research tools available in the library, and encourage them to search the library shelves for books that might be relevant to their needs. They will also be asked to complete a small amount of administration and paperwork involved in the running of the club.

  Homework Club Leaders need to be members of the Disclosure Scotland PVG scheme.

  

  The majority of club members will be aged 8-12 (P4-7), but, depending on the Homework Club Leader, some clubs may accept children from P1. The aim of the homework clubs is to provide a safe friendly environment for children within the library where they can come together and work on their homework. Volunteers offer support but do not teach the children.

   Homework Club – Application Form1

  Job Outline – Homework Club Volunteer

  Homework Club task description

  If you are interested in volunteering with a Homework club, either as a Homework Club Leader or Helper please or contact Agnès Guyon or your local library for further information:

  Agnès Guyon – Senior Librarian – Young People’s Services
  Library and Museum Headquarters – Dunbar Road – Haddington – EH41 3PJ

  Tel: 01620 820 612  - aguyon@eastlothian.gov.uk

   

   

   

   

   
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  Jennifer Sked 11:06 am on June 6, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: educational;, Scottish Seabird Centre ( 2 ), sea   

  The ‘Life around the Turbines’ 

   

  The Scottish Seabird Centre are inviting teachers and pupils to  a FREE activity day at the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick (EH39 4SS).  Workshops will run on the 18^th and 19^th of  September 2012. 

  The ‘Life around the Turbines’ workshops – which are based around the subject of offshore windfarms – are cross curricular and have been designed by the Marine Biological Association and the National Marine Aquarium with funding from COWRIE (Collaborative Offshore Wind Research Into the Environment).

  Students will take part in 3 curriculum linked sessions during the day, beginning at 10.30 am, with a break for lunch and finishing by 2.30pm. 

  • Habitats, adaptations and food webs  –    Find out what lives around the wind turbines.
  •  Technology –  Find out why we need renewable energy and how a wind turbine works.
  •  The Environment –   ‘Decision Making’ in the real world – balancing energy needs with environmental management.

   The sessions are most appropriate for primary 5 and 6. The maximum number of students that can be accommodated on each day is 60, so book now to avoid disappointment!

  If you would like to book or need some more information, please get in touch with Jenny at the Scottish Seabird Centre education@seabird.org. 

  Don’t forget all workshops and resources are completely FREE!!  The Seabird Centre are also able to subsidize the cost of travel to and from the event.