Glow Scotland

May 10th, 2013

Choices for Life Online 2013

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: alcohol, Sophie's Story, substance misuse
 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Probationers, Pupils

Yes Choices for Life is back for 2013 on Wednesday 22nd May!

The broadcast is aimed at all P7 pupils and teachers in Scotland and will have a focus around the risks and dangers of alcohol, negative peer pressure, substance misuse, aspirations and making positive healthy lifestyle choices.

Following a similar lively format to our event in November 2012, the show will consist of drama, interviews and features with positive role models and a live panel discussion with experts to whom you can submit questions to. Our presenters Mark Martin and Laura Marks will also be back with us. You can also expect a couple of surprises!

To get the most out of our live event we are asking teachers to watch our drama Sophie’s Story with their class prior to the event. Sophie’s Story follows Sophie on a night out to a party where she decides to drink alcohol. The drama focuses on the choices that she made and subsequent regrets and consequences. You can find the video of Sophie’s Story on the Choices for Life website – Sophie’s Story. There are also teaching resources available on the website to help you have a classroom discussion about Sophie’s Story or do some further activities around the drama – Sophie’ Story Resources

If any issues arise as a result of watching the drama there are many places you can go to for further information. See our Help Page for some useful links to other websites or you can go directly from here:
Alcohol Focus Scotland and Drink Smarter

We’ll have our panel of experts available on the day to answer any questions you or your class may have about alcohol or any other topic highlighted. You’ll be able to submit them live through Glow on the day but you can also submit questions now on our Glow forum.

The event will be delivered twice on the same day to allow as many pupils as possible to view the broadcast.
Sign up and join us in Glow TV for the morning broadcast at 10.30am
Sign up and join us in Glow TV for the afternoon broadcast 1.30pm

May 9th, 2013

Gone – An interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: friendships, NHS Forth Valley
 : Categories CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing

Join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 15th May at 4pm for a Health and Wellbeing event, looking at the themes of growing up, the changing nature of friendships, pressures and choices, alcohol use, s*xting and resilience. It is aimed at pupils in second year of secondary school.

Gone is an interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource which has been developed by NHS Forth Valley in conjunction with its partner education authorities.

The programme examines 4 characters as they move from primary school to secondary school and follows them through to S3. It uses a range of mediums to engage with pupils. Each lesson involves pupils viewing some short video sequence, completing tasks designed in a computer gaming format and participating in debate and discussion facilitated by the teacher. The pupils are asked, through a series of votes to predict which character will be ‘gone’ as a result of a decision involving alcohol by the end of S3. The resource is supported by a series of power points and a detailed teacher guide.

This session aims to introduce practitioners to an innovative resource which explores a range of health and wellbeing issues in a creative and engaging way.

Please note; The Glow Meet will be most applicable to secondary practitioners, pupil support staff and senior managers in secondary schools.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV – Gone – An interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource

You can also subscribe to the Glow TV eCard to ensure that you never miss out on any forthcoming events.

April 30th, 2013

Simple Acts for Schools is Back!

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: Refugee Week
 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education

Simple Acts is back for Refugee Week Scotland 2013 – Get Your School Involved!

The Simple Acts campaign is about inspiring people to use small, everyday actions to change our perceptions of refugees.

For 2013, we have chosen four simple acts, which we think are great ways for the students in your school to get involved. They fit in perfectly with Curriculum for Excellence objectives, the theme of heritage for Refugee Week Scotland 2013, and are great fun too!

These acts will be delivered live through in Glow TV throughout May by Scottish Refugee Council’s Arts & Cultural Development Volunteer Rhea Lewis. Read more on Rhea’s Blog

Glow TV events include:
Share a Story – Wednesday 1 May, 11am
This Simple Act is most suited for P1-P5. A story from another country will be told to students during the Glow Meet, followed by discussion.

Find an object that tells a story of your heritage – Wednesday 8 May, 11am
This Glow Meet is suitable for P6 upwards.During this session the students will explore the meaning of heritage and will be shown objects that reflect as aspect of our heritage chosen by refugees.

Cook a Dish from another country – Wednesday 29 May, 11am
In this Glow Meet students will be able to cook along with the Rhea.The dish will be a simple recipe from another country.

You may also be interested in the Simple Acts 2013 Teacher Pack.

April 23rd, 2013

Survey – Food education in Scottish schools

ggallacher

Comments: 3 Comments » Tags:  : Categories Health and Wellbeing, Uncategorized

Education Scotland has created a survey to evaluate the level of food education in schools and would also like to highlight two exciting food education opportunities which are coming up for schools.

Food for Thought:
Education Fund is an opportunity to apply for a grant from them which will give practitioners scope to explore food education across Curriculum for Excellence.

Chefs@School:
Inspiring Food Education is linking schools and communities to a network of cooks and chefs, to add value to Curriculum for Excellence and promote the food culture change taking place in Scotland.

The survey results will allow Education Scotland and our food education partners to establish areas for support, share emerging practice and map practice across Scotland.

There are two separate surveys:

• one for early years and primary practitioners
• one for secondary practitioners

Please ensure you complete the appropriate survey and thanks in advance, we really appreciate your support with our survey.

April 19th, 2013

Daily What Newsround Football Special

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: curator, Hampden, Scottish Football Museum
 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Pupils, Social Studies

Join us on Friday 26th April at 11am for another fun mix of news, quizzes and missing words presented by Andrea and Melissa of the Daily What team.

We are delighted that our guest will be Richard McBrearty, curator of the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Stadium

Please get in touch with any questions about the history of football in Scotland, or questions about Hampden, and any other football matters you can think of!

Please send any questions to use via our contact form – Contact Form

Sign up and join us in Glow TV – Daily What Newsround 26 April 2013

April 15th, 2013

Virtual Glow Roadshow

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: 2 Comments » Tags: Tags: Daily What, Just2easy, Scran, Twig
 : Categories CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Development, Events, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics, Pupils, Technologies

Glow is packed full of educational resources and national communities where teaching staff can collaborate with colleagues across Scotland. To showcase some of these great resources RM is hosting a week of Glow Meets featuring a few of these. These 30 minute sessions are being run twice so sign up for the time slot that suits you best!

Twig on Glow – Over 1500 high quality films covering Maths, Science, Geography and Health – complete with support resources matched to the curriculum of excellence levels 2,3 and 4.

Join us either on Monday 22nd April at 8.15am or Thursday 25th April at 3.45pm

Just2easy is an online blogging tool. Children can create, sharing and learn in an esafe environment.
Join us either on Monday 22nd April at 3.45pm or Wednesday 24th April at 8.15am

Scran is a charity & online learning resource base with over 360,000 images & media from museums, galleries, archives and the media. These resources can be downloaded and used copyright free.

Join us either on Tuesday 23rd April at 8.15am or Wednesday 24th April at 3.45pm

The Daily What News is an online news service provided for Scottish Schools supporting the development of literacy and language across the curriculum. The site also provides a wealth of support materials.

Join us either on Tuesday 23rd April at 3.45pm or Thursday 25th April at 8.15am

March 14th, 2013

Forced Marriage in Scotland

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: Glow TV
 : Categories Events, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing

Figures collated from Scottish agencies, who support victims of forced marriage, estimate that almost 20% of the 59 people who contacted them in 2011/12 in fear of being forced to marry were under 18 years of age. Those seeking help included both boys and girls and agencies believe that these figures may just be the tip of the iceberg, with many victims often too scared to speak out.

This shows that forced marriage is a very real issue affecting young people in Scotland and it is important that they know how they can get help. In November 2011, legislation came into force in Scotland to protect those affected by forced marriage. The Forced Marriage etc. (Protection and Jurisdiction) (Scotland) Act 2011 provides civil remedies for those at risk of forced marriage and those who have already been forced into marriage.

Teachers and education professionals therefore play an important role in recognising potential victims of forced marriage and in signposting them appropriately to ensure that they receive the right kind of help they need.

With this in mind, a forced marriage information resource is being launched this month for those working with young people in Scotland. A Glow TV event has been scheduled for Monday 18th March at 4pm to give education professionals the chance to discuss the issues which surround forced marriage and how they can help those in their care who they are worried might be affected. The Glow TV event is appropriate for all education practitioners.

To help education practitioners understand the legislation and how their work might be impacted by forced marriage, a panel of experts, including a forced marriage survivor, will be present to answer questions on the issue such as:

• What is a forced marriage?
• Are many young people in Scotland being forced to marry?
• How does the law in Scotland to help those in a forced marriage or under threat of one?
• How can education professionals help any young person in their care that they are worried might be affected by forced marriage?

Why not sign up and find out more in Glow TV – Forced Marriage in Scotland Or if you miss it click the Watch Again link to view the recording.

March 12th, 2013

Choices for Life Online – Winning Awards

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags:  : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils

The large Choices for Life venue music events run by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency were the highlight of many a Primary 7′s year but not everyone could get to a live event and learn more about making the right choices for their life.

That is until November 2011 when Choices for Life Online began. During the course of two days over 25,000 pupils from across Scotland tuned in to watch the new Online experience provided to them through Glow TV. The live webstreams featured thought provoking drama pieces from PACE and interviews with celebrities who all wanted to help youngsters think about making the right choices about their lives.

Since then the format of the broadcast has continued to be a massive success with young people having the opportunity to tune in either via a Glow TV live webstream or though Glow Meet with the session being repeated on the same day so noone misses out!

This huge success was marked yesterday when Choices for Life Online was awareded a presitgious award at the Scottish Police Awards for Making Communities Safer. The competition was fierce with 4 other excellent projects in the same category so the representatives from SCDEA and Glow were surprised to be honoured and receive the award from Kenny MacAskill, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and be congratulated by Dougie Vipond, Scottish television personality.

You can keep up to date with Choices for Life Online both in our Choice for Life Online Glow Group and on the excellent Choices for Life Online website which was launched in September 2012.

Well done Choices for Life and make a date in your diary for the next event which will be held on May 22nd -more details nearer the time in Glow TV.

February 19th, 2013

Flushed with Success? Join the RIGHT Big Toilet Debate.

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: 4 Comments » Tags: Tags: Tam Baillie
 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils

Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, Tam Baillie will be hosting a Glow Meet for primary pupils on the subject of your school toilets.

He will be asking pupils to complete a survey on Glow to tell him what they think about their school toilets.

In addition three schools will be telling us about their toilets through presentations and photographs. Perhaps the pupils in your school would like to carry out their own survey or take some pictures to show Tam during the Glow meet?

Join us to talk toilets on Thursday 28th February at 10.45am live from Carrick Knowe Primary in Edinburgh! – Sign up in Glow TV.

November 6th, 2012

Speakers for Schools comes to Scotland

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: Alice Enders, Stewart Regan
 : Categories 16+ Learning Choices, Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glasgow City, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils

Glow TV and Education Scotland is proud to announce that it will once again to be working with the charity initiative Speakers for Schools . Last year through this initiative Glow TV brought you ‘Jonathan Edwards live in Glow ‘ which you can Watch Again.

Speakers for Schools is a programme originally launched in October 2011 in England by BBC Business Editor Robert Peston and The Education and Employers Taskforce. Each speaker commits to one talk per year, completely free, for a state school or college. Over 800 people have already agreed to participate with a range of speakers including CEOs of major companies, politicians, media and arts people, scientists, entrepreneurs and academics – ranging from the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees to the founder of LastMinute.com and digital entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox.

The 12th of November Speakers for Schools is officially launching in Scotland, with all state secondary schools eligible to apply for a talk on a range of topics.

This year Glow TV will be broadcasting live events from a range of speakers from various areas of commerce so that your school can be part of the experience as well (and if you are unable to attend the session live you can view the recording through Glow TVs Watch Again facility)

We will be starting our exciting series of events on Monday 12th November live from Perth College with inspirational speaker Alice Enders who is a former senior economist at the World Trade Organisation and was professor of economics at York University, Canada. Alice will be speaking about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sign up and join us in Glow TV for this exciting event.

In addition to this event Glow TV will also be broadcasting live an event with Stewart Regan
the CEO of the Scottish Football Association on Thursday 15th November live from Smithycroft High School in Glasgow. Sign up and join us for this event in Glow TV.

Speakers for Schools will be announcing more inspirational speakers appearing live over the coming weeks so keep checking the Glow TV schedule for more being added.

To register and more information Speakers for Schools, visit www.speakers4schools.org