Glow Scotland

March 4th, 2013

Maths & English exam revision – support online

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Revision support for NQ English and Mathematics

With the SQA National Qualifications examinations looming, the National Glow Team are pleased to announce the launch of exam revision support for NQ English and Mathematics. Aimed at pupils and supported by teachers, this Glow revision resource will help pupils in their preparation for national examinations by allowing them to post questions and queries into a teacher facilitated Glow Forum. The resource will be open to all pupils and teachers with the potential to become a vibrant self-supporting community.

Find out more here.

January 22nd, 2013

Holocaust Memorial Day 2013 – Glow TV Events

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: holocaust, Rwanda, Sello Hatang
 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glasgow City, Glow TV, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies

Glow TV is once more celebrating Holocaust Memorial Day which is on 27th January with a series of events. Below you can find out all the details and hopefully you will be able to join us for some of them!

Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory – Sello Hatang – Thursday 24th January 2013 11am

Sello Hatang from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory will speak about the work of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and how this organisation has helped rebuild the fractured community in South Africa. Pupils will have the opportunity to ask Sello questions about his experiences to do with reconcilliation and rebuilding trust.

Sello Hatang is the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory’s Head of Public Programming, and spokesperson. Previously he was a senior manager at South Africa’s Human Rights Commission. He participated in the post-1994 transformation of the National Archives, including archival support for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and is a former Director of the South African History Archive. He was a member of the editorial team of Nelson Mandela’s book, Conversations with Myself. Sign up and join us in Glow TV – Nelson Mandela Foundation – Rebuilding communities .

Holocaust Memorial Day 2013 – Monday 28th January 2013 10.30am

Join us live from from Glasgow City Chambers to take part in Holocaust Memorial Day 2013, Scotland’s National Event, with Jean Paul Samputu from the Rwandan Forgiveness Campaign, Sello Hatang from the Nelson Mandela Foundation and pupils from Shawlands Academy, Holyrood Secondary and St Anne’s Primary School choir. Help us to be a community together and build a bridge! Sign up and join us in Glow TV – Holocaust Memorial Event – Scotland 2013.

Rwandan Forgiveness Campaign – Tuesday 29th January 2013 join us at for 11am

Jean Paul Samputu is a Rwandan musician who lost almost his entire family in the genocide in 1994 and who now campaigns for reconciliation and forgiveness. Samputu sings in six languages and uses a variety of musical styles in his work. After the genocide and murder of his family by a man he regarded as his best friend, Jean Paul fell into a spiral of drink and drug abuse and was unable to perform music for several years.

Samputu is now a cultural ambassador for Rwanda and travels throughout the world teaching about and performing traditional African music and also spreading his message of peace and forgiveness. In 2009 he was nominated for World Vision International’s Peace Prize.

This will be a unique opportunity to hear Jean Paul speak about his experiences, about forgiveness and to ask him your own questions. Sign up and join us in Glow TV – Rwandan Forgiveness Campaign

November 6th, 2012

What does Remembrance mean?

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Edinburgh City, Events, Expressive Arts, Glasgow City, Glow TV, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies

This year Poppyscotland have teamed up with Glow TV to bring you a series of events about remembrance. The event entitled ‘Meet Those Involved’ is the second event in this series and will be held on Thursday 8th November at 2pm.

On 5th November there was a special event that took place in Edinburgh. This is your chance to see footage from this event which was the opening of the Garden of Remembrance and take part in a question and answer session with staff from Poppyscotland and Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory.

The panel who will be there to answer your questions and tell you about what remembrance means to them includes veterans from recent wars – remembrance isn’t just about World Wars 1 and 2.

Join us in Glow TV and find out more about what remembrance really means.

The third event in the series takes place on Friday 9th November when you can join us live in Glow TV from 10am for a special Remembrance Day event. This year Education Services in Glasgow have organised a city wide remembrance service for schools in Glasgow City Chambers. The event will link the important civic aspects of remembrance and allow young people to better understand the range of issues involved. The programme will involve pupils from across the city encompassing drama, poetry and music. Sign up and join us for this thought provoking event.

November 6th, 2012

Speakers for Schools comes to Scotland

Jennifer McDougall

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 : 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

November 2nd, 2012

RM Unify Pilot – Feedback published

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Introduction of RM Unify To Glow

RM Unify is the launchpad that will provide single sign on to Microsoft Office 365 and other applications.

It was piloted in Oct 2012 in a range of schools from across different local authorities, feedback was provided in a Glow Group and this feedback has been summarised and documented, the document is available in the national group – Migration of Glow to Office 365.

Click here to access the group.

A great big thank you to all the schools and local authority staff involved. It was great to see the pupils enjoying the new look interface.

- This group also contains a video tour of RM Unify -

October 30th, 2012

What does remembrance mean? – Winners of Moving Stories 2011

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glasgow City, Glow TV, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies

This year Poppyscotland have teamed up with Glow TV to bring you a series of events about remembrance. This is the first of this thought provoking series.

Last year, Poppyscotland launched a new film making competition with schools called ‘Moving Stories’. The competition invited primary and secondary schools to create a script, storyboard or completed short film that represented their thoughts on the theme ‘90 years of the Poppy – then and now, 1921 – 2011’. Four schools were shortlisted and given the opportunity to work with a professional filmmaker for a day in order to remake their film. The final films were posted on the Poppy Scotland website to be put to the public vote to decide the overall winner.

The winner was St Brigid’s Primary School with their short film ‘James Stokes – A Gorbals Hero’.

During this Glow Meet you will get the chance to hear from and chat with St Brigid’s Primary school as they talk about their experience of entering and winning Moving Stories 2011 – and how you can enter the competition this year!!

Sign up and join us live on Glow TV on Friday 2nd November at 10am and remember that you can Watch Again if you can’t attend live.

August 25th, 2012

Join us on the Cooking Bus

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glasgow City, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils

On Friday 31st August at 9.15am Glow TV will be coming live from Glasgow Caledonian University with the Focus on Food Cooking Bus.

Throughout the year Focus on Food Cooking Buses are at work across the UK visiting schools and communities. Sessions cover key aspects of food education from food preparation skills to nutrition, food safety and hygiene. All ingredients and equipment are provided, a session at the on the bus leaves behind expertise, enthusiasm and skills. The Cooking Bus supports the continued implementation of the experiences and outcomes within the health and wellbeing framework of Curriculum for Excellence.

Tune in to meet the team who tour Scottish schools on the Focus on Food Cooking Bus.

· Find out what happens when the bus visits your school.

· Find out how the bus can build confidence around practical cooking in the classroom.

· Find out how to request a visit from the bus for your school or cluster.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV or request further information from Kerry Crichton – kerry.crichton@educationscotland.gov.uk

December 16th, 2011

Glow Does Panto! – Mister Merlin

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glasgow City, Glow, Glow Meet

Join the Tron Theatre Glasgow Panto characters for a live Glow Meet.

Mister Merlin’s magic is mince if he doesn’t have his wand – a family heirloom handed down through many Merlin generations. The Great Bahooky’s magic has always been mince – so stealing Mister Merlin’s wand, helped (or is it hindered?) by his side-kick Bumble, is part of his cunning plan for wizard world domination.

What he didn’t bank on was Merlin having a guardian angel, in the guise of The Govan Fairy; or two plucky puppet pals Peter and Penny prepared to brave Clabber Castle’s haunted garden to get the wand back.

You will be able to meet the cast, ask them questions and find out all about the magic of Mister Merlin. -
Sign up now and join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 21st December from 1.45 – 2.30pm.

October 4th, 2011

World Porridge Day with Mary’s Meals on Glow TV

Lesley Sneddon

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NEW TIME – 10 am, Monday 10 October

World Porridge Day is a celebration of a traditional Scottish dish and the chance to explore the work of the charity Mary’s Meals.

To many in the UK, porridge is a hearty breakfast, but to over 479,000 school children in Malawi who receive a daily mug of maize-based likuni phala from Mary’s Meals, it is a powerful incentive to go to school, and the only guaranteed meal they will have each day.

Join 200 S1 pupils in Holyrood Secondary School Glasgow as they are served porridge at the same time as pupils at the Catholic Institute Primary School in Malawi with a live link via Glow.  Tell us how you are celebrating World Porridge Day and find out exactly what World Porridge Day means to the pupils in Malawi.

Mary’s Meals provides a daily meal to chronically hungry children to attract them to school where they can get an education which could lift them out of poverty in later life.  It costs Mary’s Meals just £6.15 to provide a daily meal for a child for a whole school year.

Studying the lives of the children supported by Mary’s Meals provides a rich interdisciplinary context for delivering many aspects of the modern curriculum including global citizenship, religious and moral education and enterprise.

To sign up and join us for World Porridge day on Glow TV click here

September 19th, 2011

Glowing Thursdays – Behind the Scenes at the Citizen’s Theatre

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: Citizens Theatre, Men Should Weep, National Theatre of Scotland
 : Categories Co-Create, Creativity Portal, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glasgow City, Glow, Glow Meet

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a National Theatre, who does what and how is the whole production put together?

Why not join us for a sneak preview behind the scenes of National Theatre of Scotland’s seminal production of “Men Should Weep.”

Join the directors, cast and crew members of the Men Should Weep company live from the citizens theatre. A tour of the set led by assistant director Phil McCormack will be followed by discussion with the director and some of the main cast who will reveal their approaches and the many processes adopted to make the show.

You will also have the opportunity to ask your own questions and find out what really goes on behind the scenes.

Register for Glow TV and then sign up and join us on Thursday 22nd from 2-3pm for this exciting event.