Would your class like to take part in a live interactive magic show?!

Date Friday 13th July

Liskeard School and Community College are looking for a year 7 or year 6 group of 15-30 students. Liskeard students are taking part in Magic School as part of the school’s Challenge Week, and will be learning how to perform magic tricks and make their own magic film.

The show will last around 45 minutes on Friday 13th July and can take place anytime between 9am and 1pm, depending upon what is suitable for the interactive school!

If you are interested, please contact John Golding ‎- JGolding(at)liskeard.cornwall.sch.uk

As usual YHGfL will be able to support any schools new to the technology. email contact(at)yhgfl.net

2nd – 6th July at Magna Rotherham

Yes that’s right – free, which is why there’s not much time get book your places. This is a national event with schools from all over the country taking part but as it’s in Rotherham, we’d like to make sure that YHGfL schools make the most of this fantastic opportunity. Sign up for as much or as little as you want. Take your pupils or just go yourself, it’s all free and runs over 5 days so loads to choose from:

• 5 days of hands-on interactive and inspiring workshops and lectures from leading figures in education and industry.
• Fully inclusive workshop schedule – from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 5.
• A fully engaged curriculum – Coding/Programmer/Computer Science, Art, Maths, Physics, English, Drama.
• 750+ workshop places and 2000+ activity places – applications encouraged from schools across the country.
• 250 CPD opportunities for teachers and educators to develop existing and new digital skills taking game creation back into the classroom.
• Industry-lead careers surgeries, vital advice and guidance for schools and young people.

For every you need to get the most out of this event, visit the website or download the Planning Your Visit document. They’ve even done your visit risk assessment for you!

http://www.gamesbritannia.com/2012/assets/planningyourvisit.pdf

http://www.gamesbritannia.com/2012/index.php

Space’s still available :

03/05/2012 4:00 pm

From coffee cups to skyscrapers, Google Sketchup can add an extra dimension to sketching or drawing. This free 3d modelling software can be used to get a flavour of house building or architecture amongst other things. In this free, online workshop you will learn how to use the basic tools, import downloaded models from the internet, and finally, to create a house or other buildings. Google sketchup is a great tool for linking geography, art, design and ICT covering a wide range of curriculum areas.

Starting at 4:00 this session will last approximately 45 minutes and be conducted through Adobe Connect. All you will need is access to a PC and a set of headphones. If you aren’t sure what to do we will happily run a quick test session with you first.

Click HERE to register on the YHGfL website.

Thursday 2nd Febuary 2012

Don’t know your wordle from your voice thread? Do you thinking tweeting is for birds? If so then this is the course for you. Find out about the wealth of freely available online tools that can be used to enrich learning in your classroom in a wealth of curriculum areas from Maths to Art.

Who should attend: Primary School teachers, HLTAs and GTP students.

Venue : West Yorkshire TBA

Click HERE to link to the booking form and cost information

The theme for this year’s competition is Make IT Healthy. Schools are challenged to show us how they use IT to contribute to a healthier life for students, the school community and even for those in the wider community.

Twelve winning schools from across the UK will be awarded £1,200 each, and from these entries 3 overall winners will be chosen to receive additional cash prizes. All winners will be invited to attend an awards ceremony in June 2012 at the Houses of Parliament.

Projects might focus on the life of the school itself – looking at a healthy diet, increasing activity levels or finding out about health issues. Projects focusing on emotional or mental health might look at mentoring and buddying schemes, or at showcasing the benefits of friendship and human connections. Looking beyond the school, projects could connect with hospitals, daycare centres or nurseries; or consider national or international health issues. Any health-related project that makes use of IT could be a competition winner.

The presentation could be in PowerPoint, Prezi or Movie Maker, and can include photos, video links, music or voice-overs. It should not be more than 15 slides or, if video is used, 10 minutes in length. For  links to some of these programs, and other useful software take a look at the YHGfL website HERE

For further details and registration click HERE

The competition will close on Sunday April 8 2012

Show Racism the Red Card’s competition is an accessible and engaging way to encourage pupils to think about issues surrounding racism.  There are multiple categories for ages ranging from Year One of Primary School through to Secondary School Year Eleven.

The competition is designed to be a great follow-on activity to working with SRtRC educational resources in the classroom.

Young people are free to produce work with an anti-racism theme in any medium. The categories are artwork, creative writing, film and music. All work is welcome!

Schools must send in no more that one entry per category, per school. The categories are:

• Year 1-4 Artwork and Creative Writing
• Year 5-6 Artwork
• Year 5-6 Creative Writing
• Year 7-9 Artwork
• Year 7-9 Creative Writing
• Year 10+ Artwork & Creative Writing
• Special Educational Needs Artwork & Creative Writing
• All Ages & Abilities Multi-Media (this category includes all film, animation, drama, dance, PowerPoint, music entries etc.)

Register your school by  e-mail gav(at)theredcard.org, no later than 2nd March 2012 and Send your school’s entry in each category you want to enter to SRtRC by 23rd March 2012.

Show Racism the Red Card site has loads of ideas on how to fight racism, and resources about its work which ranges from  events with football clubs all over the country,  running competitions for schools and producing DVDs where players and young people speak about their experiences of and views on racism.

Visit the site HERE

YHGfL  are running a days videoconference with the comic illustrator Kate Holden. 

Thursday 1st March 2012

Kate Holden is an illustrator and manga artist based in Cumbria in the north of England!. Her illustration and design clients include Nintendo, Climb Magazine, GoUlverston.com and LMB Design.

Kate will be will be discussing her work as an illustrator and demonstrating some of her drawing techniques. Children will have the opportunity to ask questions and draw along with Kate her characters or subjects of their choice – pencils and paper required. Each session will be 45 minuets and may include more than 1 school per session. Free to YHGfL member schools

Kate also welcomes students to send in drawings they would like to share with her.

Sessions can be modified to suit any key stage from 1 to 4

You can see examples of her work here:

http://www.kateholdenart.com/index.htm

To book a session please visit the YHGfL website

http://www.yhgfl.net/CPD/CPD-programme/Video-Conference-with-Kate-Holden

YHGfL is able to help and support its schools in the use of this technology and to get you started can be run on as little as a web cam and  FREE downloadable software.

High resolution photographs from the Royal Collection now available on NEN gallery.

The ‘Heart of the Great Alone’ exhibition featuring photography from the Scott and Shackleton expeditions is now showing at the Queens Gallery – Buckingham Palace.
LGfL is pleased to be working in partnership with the Royal Collection to bring high resolution photographs of pictures and learning resources from The Heart of the Great Alone exhibition. Ten of these iconic images have been made available via the NEN Gallery for teachers to incorporate into their teaching.

Guidance is provided on how to make the most of the high resolution quality of the resources, along with commentary’s of the major photographs from the exhibition.

To view the images visit http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery14904-.html

For further information on the exhibit  www.hotga.lgfl.net

Simple yet highly effective art and craft techniques that non specialist teachers can feel confident at trying in the classroom.

The Art Skills for Teachers resource is a website that has been created by the Ben Uri Gallery to support the teaching of art and design. It is targeted at the non specialist. It aims to offer simple, yet highly effective, ideas and techniques that both teachers, children can feel confident at trying both at school and at home.

The ideas and techniques can be used to create artworks in response to the  Ben Uri Teaching Resources produced by the London Grid for Learning, A Sense of Place, Relationships and Movement – however their application can occur across many and varied contexts in the primary and secondary classroom.

A video case study filmed at Richard Cobden school In Camden shows the impact of using the Ben Uri Art resources and explains how the resources can be used in a range of Key Stages.

• The resource features an image viewer that is designed to allow teachers to move an image around freely on an interactive whiteboard display.
• All the resources are available for .pdf download.
• All pages in the online book interface have unique web addresses so that links from other resources (such as the London MLE) can be created.

Links:

www.artskills.lgfl.net

Richard Cobden LGfL Ben Uri Video case study:

http://media.lgfl.org.uk/files/content/benuri/benurifilm.wmv

NOTE: You must be located in school to view the website as this resource can only be accessed from a National Education Network connection.

Download High resolution scans of the featured artwork from the Exhibition

The Royal Collections

LGfL, working on behalf of the National Education Network is delighted to be working partnership with the Royal Collections.

Britain’s Royal Collection is one of the most important art collections in the world. It contains paintings and drawings by many of the greatest artists of Western Art, including Leonardo da Vinci, Holbein, Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Vermeer, as well as superb examples of works of art from all over the world – furniture, ceramics, silver and gold, sculpture, books and armour. Items from the Royal Collection can be seen at royal residences across Britain and at The Queen’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh.

Royal Collection Learning is responsible for the development and delivery of learning resources and programmes for schools, families and adults visiting Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Our shared aim is to inspire groups to engage with, enjoy and learn about the Royal Collection.

Dutch Landscapes Exhibition (15 April – 9 October)

This new partnership  features high resolution scans and learning resources from the current ‘Dutch Landscapes’ exhibition showing at ‘The Queens Gallery’ at Buckingham Palace.

The exhibition brings together forty two remarkable landscapes from the ‘Golden Age’ of Dutch painting, including works by Ruisdael, Cuyp and Hobbema. The Dutch Republic, which gained independence from the Spanish-ruled Southern Netherlands in 1648, was physically expanding, with large areas being reclaimed from the sea and with it the population was growing too. Landscape paintings seem to celebrate this expansion and prosperity.

Discover

• Original drawings highlighting artists’ techniques and approach to composition.

• The changing environment and landscape of Dutch people’s lives in the seventeenth century.

• Insight into the life of European people of the period; including how they travelled, farmed and the hobbies they enjoyed.

Links:

For further information : www.dutchlandscapes.lgfl.net