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Quotes
“Creativity is not something gifted to the few...”
—Ken Edwards, Quality Improvement Officer, Angus Council
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Online Teaching Tools
Inanimate Alice
An online new media fiction with teaching support, easily assimilated into learning environments; its use of multimodality (images, sounds, text, interaction) enables students to see storytelling in a new, multi-sensory light...
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Online Teaching Tools
App smashing for teachers: The power of app cross-pollination
TED Education article on stringing multiple tablet apps together to create, synthesise and adapt...
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Creative Partners
The Drama Studio
The Drama Studio teaches Creative Drama within Primary Schools, supporting teachers to deliver the curriculum through exciting, interactive lessons...
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Creative Partners
Creative & Cultural Skills
Creative & Cultural Skills works to create fair and inclusive opportunities for young people within the creative and cultural sectors...
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Quotes
“Creativity is the combined application of intelligence and imagination...”
—Duncan Jones, Association for Scottish Literary Studies
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Creative Partners
National Galleries of Scotland
Do you want to be inspired...
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Quotes
“I have to reflect my background as a son of the manse; creation is a phrase that appears often in the Bible...”
—Ian Ritchie
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Online Teaching Tools
Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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Creative Partners
Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
Playwrights' Studio, Scotland develop and celebrate the exceptional talents and achievements of Scotland's diverse playwrights with sustained, good quality support, whatever stage a writer is at in their career...
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Creative Partners
Centre for the Moving Image - Edinburgh Filmhouse, Belmont Filmhouse (Aberdeen) & Edinburgh Internat
Centre For the Moving Image (CMI) is the umbrella organisation for Edinburgh Filmhouse, Belmont Filmhouse (Aberdeen) and Edinburgh International Film Festival...
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Online Teaching Tools
The John Byrne Award - Edinburgh only
The John Byrne Award presents sixth-year pupils with a unique challenge...
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Inspiring Moments
Williamston: Tasting a storm (Attainment in Literacy)
Hidden Giants undertook a three month residency in Williamston Primary school, Livingston, working with a class group of Primary 5 pupils and their teacher to explore how literacy and writing skills could be improved through creative approaches to learning and teaching...
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Creative Partners
Puppet Animation Scotland
Puppet Animation Scotland nurtures and promotes the arts forms of puppetry and animation in Scotland...
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Online Teaching Tools
Kist o Riches
Online resource containing thousands of oral recordings recorded in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards...
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Online Teaching Tools
8 1/2 Foundation
8 1/2 Foundation is a Scottish-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to introducing world cinema to children...
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Quotes
“I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it...”
—Alexander McCall Smith
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Inspiring Moments
Our Fragile Earth
A case study of a whole school interdisciplinary project Hidden Giants was invited to work with St Vincents Primary, a Catholic school in East Kilbride, a new town on the outskirts of south Glasgow...
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Inspiring Moments
Creative Change Pilot Project - report
The final, and extremely visual, report on Education Scotland’s Creative Change Pilot Project which paired up educators with deep challenges and creative catalysts who could bring fresh perspectives, creative approaches and a full suit of creativity skills to the problem...
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Creative Partners
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The RSNO’s pioneering learning and engagement programme, Music for Life, aims to engage the people of Scotland with music across key stages of life: Early Years, Nurseries and Schools, Teenagers and Students, Families, Accessing Lives, Working Lives and Retired and Later Life...