Poster sessions
National Galleries of Scotland
The National Galleries of Scotland runs a full education programme across five magnificent buildings, with a team of skilled gallery educators to help schools and colleges access the collections.
Copies of the Programmes for Schools brochure were available giving full details of guided tours and workshops on offer to nursery, primary, secondary and special education schools, as well as information for teachers on private views and continuing professional development.
Other areas covered include how to access the online collection, teacher and classroom resources, and information on how to enter the National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools and the creative writing competition, Inspired? Get writing!
The National Galleries of Scotland also displayed up to 50 award-winning entries from this year’s Art Competition on the Cultural Gallery Wall within Hall 1.
SNAP
SNAP works across the UK with schools, cluster schools and education authorities. We also run workshops for young people, conferences and seminars, give keynote addresses and advice to parents. Information about resources, membership, in-service and much more will be available at our poster site at the Scottish Learning Festival.
SNAP Principles
- All children have a right to an education that is appropriately challenging and takes account of individual needs.
- Each person has a unique profile across a wide range of abilities that should be recognised, enhanced and valued equally.
- Recognition of an individual's ability profile is only possible in partnership with parents and other significant individuals in that person's life.
- Appropriate challenge must be provided at all points on an individual's ability profile.
- The key to recognition of an individual's abilities lies with the provision of appropriately challenging opportunities.
- Errors are critical to the learning process; thus appropriately challenging opportunities may require challenge that takes the individual to the point of failure. This is only possible, however, within an ethos where it is safe to fail.
- An inclusive education system is the most supportive framework for offering opportunities to prevent underachievement and provide appropriate challenge across the ability range.
BRAW
BRAW (Books, Reading and Writing), the Network for the Scottish Children's book, runs within Scottish Book Trust to promote books, reading and writing, by authors and illustrators living in Scotland, to Scottish children and young people, whatever their particular circumstances may be. Its priority is to reach children and young people in areas of social deprivation, with the aim of increasing their literacy skills. Projects in 2006 include the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books, book awards in three age-group categories voted for entirely by children and young people in schools and libraries in each of Scotland's 32 education authorities, and On the Money, a project run with Learning and Teaching Scotland and sponsored by Standard Life, in which Scottish children's authors are writing stories to inform Scottish primary pupils' attitudes to financial education.
Scottish Poetry Library
The Scottish Poetry Library aims to inspire young people of all ages, encouraging them to see poetry and creative writing as a source of personal pleasure. We aim to promote poetry in education as an art form in itself, as a field of study, and as a medium for exploring and expressing a range of subjects within the current 5-14 guidelines and the developing A Curriculum for Excellence.
SPL’s Poetry and Architecture series of schools competitions aimed to encourage young people to discover, and rediscover, their built environment, and to explore and express their responses and ideas through the language of poetry. Supported by our education resource packs, hundreds of teachers were able to send us thousands of their pupils’ poems about houses and homes, public and historic buildings - from Bonnyrigg to Barra, Unst to Stranraer. Our exhibition of winning and commended poems demonstrates clearly how the poetry approach can heighten young people’s observation, appreciation and understanding of the richness and diversity of the built environment – and also shows how confidently, enthusiastically and playfully they experiment with the medium of poetry. Read them aloud!
With all this information and more, why not come along and take advantage of this amazing opportunity to find out at first hand how these organisations can help the quality of education in your classroom.