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Beginning with Children: 3-6 Year Olds
Sat 4 September, 10am-1pm
It's not just the stories but the opening of minds, hearts and imaginations. Join storyteller Bea Ferguson for a half day beginners' workshop introducing the skills involved in sharing stories, songs and rhymes with 3-6 year olds.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
Beginning with Children: 7-10 Year Olds
Sat 4 September, 2-5pm
How can you act as an enabler for creative expression and story sharing? Join storyteller Senga Munro for a half day beginners' workshop introducing the skills involved in building relationships and exploring experiences through storytelling with 7-10 year olds.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
Scottish Storytelling Network Open Day
Sun 5 September, 12-5pm
Join us for an informal and inspiring day of workshop tasters, talks and discussions, and drop-in storytelling sessions. A networking and social opportunity for storytellers and anyone interested in using storytelling within their work or community. Meet some of Scotland’s finest storytellers and tradition bearers, and delve into the varied and wide-reaching work of the Scottish Storytelling Centre and Network. Find out more about current projects in education, health and wellbeing, heritage and environment, and share your own ideas and aspirations for storytelling in your area. Also open to new and prospective members.
Free Book in advance for buffet lunch (£10) or just drop in.
Storyboxes: Maximising Successful Active Learning
Wed 8 September, 4-6pm
Storyboxes enable teachers to stimulate storymaking, storytelling, and talking & listening skills through structured interactive, creative activities. Storyboxes facilitate the aims of the Curriculum for Excellence and have great potential for cross curricula involvement. Be inspired by young storytellers and explore the storybox concept and resources.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
Practical Storytelling With Children
Sat 11 September, 10am-1pm
Have you always wanted to try using storytelling in the workplace but never been quite sure where or how to start? Aimed at after school clubs, playworkers and nursery staff, this is a practical and creative workshop that is fun, challenging and rewarding. Led by Lea Taylor, participants will explore a range of simple storytelling skills for use in work contexts, learn how to construct basic programmes to meet the needs of the audience, and share ways of applying storytelling to the Curriculum for Excellence.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
Box office 0131 556 9579 or www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk
National Library of Scotland
Guided by amazement
The National Library of Scotland’s writer in residence at the John Murray Archive, Peter Arnott, is recording, and musing upon, the stories he discovers in this unique publishing archive in a blog. ‘Most people using this archive already have a pretty good idea what they’re looking for’ they’re specialists,’ Peter says. ‘I want to be guided by amazement from document to document, to find emotions, stories, people that inspire me and will hopefully through inspire others.’ Peter’s residency, funded by Creative Scotland, will result in a creative writing web resource for schools to be launched early in 2011. Read Peter’s blog at Playwright in the Cages.
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Annual Schools Conference & CPD
The ASLS is holding its annual Schools Conference for secondary school teachers will take place on Saturday 2 October in the Graham Hills Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
The conference contributes 8 hours of CPD in the areas of language and literature.
The conference programme is as follows:
9:45 Coffee
10:20 Welcome
10:30 Early Scottish Short Stories of the Supernatural (Professor Douglas Gifford)
11:10 Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today (Professor John Corbett)
11:50 Tea and Coffee
12:05 Scottish Teenage Fiction (Cathy Forde)
12:45 Young People’s Writing Awards
1:00 Lunch
2:00 The Novels of Anne Donovan and Alan Spence (Dr Moira Burgess)
2:45 Interval
2:50 Meet the Authors: Anne Donovan and Alan Spence discuss their work
3:40 Close of Conference
Teachers can download a booking form here:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/SchBooking2010.pdf
Scots Language Centre
The Scots Language Centre has put together a feature about bird names and the Scots language. Working with Chris Rollie of the RSPB in Dumfriesshire, we have a series of interviews which include discussion of what birds are called in different parts of Scotland along with the sounds of birdsong. Chris is also an expert on the poetry of Robert Burns, so the interviews contain many references to birds in the poetry of Burns.
http://www.scotslanguage.com/books/view/68/2017
Scottish Book Trust
NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEWS & BOOK GROUPS
Online Teacher in Residence is running three new online teachers' book groups:
The Blackhope Enigma by Teresa Flavin on 21 September.
Choke Chain by Jason Donald on 2 November.
Teachers As Writers by Michelle Commeyras on 25 January.
Video interviews with both Jason and Teresa are now up on the website.
There are still a few copies of each book to ve given away - find out more and sign up at http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/otir/bookgroup
FREE GRAPHIC NOVELS POSTER FOR YOUR CLASSROOM
Our Online Teacher in Residence Michael Stephenson has collaborated with graphic artist Tiom Foster to create a printable classroom poster that can be downloaded for free from our website:
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/otir/gnposter
UPDATED: WIN A FREE CPD SESSION WORTH £400
We’re giving one lucky teacher in Scotland the opportunity to win a tailored CPD session by signing up to the monthly Learning Professionals' Newsletter.
The NEW DEADLINE is December 17 and you can sign up on the SubSCRIBE Competition 2010 page. http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/otir/subscribecomp
Edinburgh International Book Festival
2010 RBS Schools Programme
The RBS Children’s Programme is jam-packed with events for children and teachers. This year we welcome supremely talented double-act Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross (Tuesday 24th, ages 4+), an irresistibly enjoyable Great Rabbit Rescue with Waterstone’s Prize Winner Katie Davies (Friday 27th, ages 7+), and utterly un-put-down-able Garth Nix (Saturday 14th, ages 9+).
Our renowned Continuing Professional Development events look at innovative ways to support cross-curricular learning and challenge misconceptions about pupil attainment in events with internationally recognised figures. These include Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne (Thursday 26th) with his inspirational event on picture books, and Professor David Shenk (Thursday 19th) with his bestselling, Malcom Gladwellian The Genius in All of Us.
There are also a number of events in our RBS Schools Programme with tickets still available. These include the interactive storytelling Penguin with Polly Dunbar (Wednesday 25th, P1 – P4), the charming and arty Catherine Rayner (Tuesday 31st, P 1 – P3) and the informative and fun Tony Mitton (Thursday 26th, P1 – P4)
Download the 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival programme from the Book Festival website, http://www.edbookfest.co.uk, or email admin@edbookfest.co.uk to have one posted to you.
