ACES Schools Booking Form

Please fill out this booking form to confirm your interest and provide us with the details we need from you to arrange a talk and workshop. We will be in touch as soon as we can about visiting your school.

Please provide as many options as you can for available dates.
Filling out this form does not guarantee the ACES Team can visit your school or that the dates you prefer are available. We will send you an email to confirm all details.

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The ACES team is now fully booked for spring and summer 2024. We will release dates for August onwards as soon as we can and you can still submit the webform, suggesting a date in August and beyond that would work for you. You can also opt to get notified once more dates have been announced.

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Your Name *

Please share your name as the main teacher arranging the visit with us.

Your Role *

Your School or Glow Email Address *

Please share your school, glow, or Microsoft Teams email address with us. We will not accept private, non-school email addresses.

School name *

Would you be interested in ACES delivering a talk or a workshop? *

Talk (S4-S6)

Workshop (S4)

We work with 79 schools across 8 Local Authorities so we typically can only offer one talk or one workshop to one school per school year. Let us know what you would be interested in.

If you are interested in a Talk, please select all options that would be suitable to your Senior Phase pupils.

Creative Degree Choices

Application Process to visual creative degrees

Personal Statements

Portfolios

Talks can be delivered to individual classes from S4-S6 or all Senior Phase pupils interested in the subject areas art, design, or architecture. Please select the topics you'd like the ACES Team to cover when visiting. You can choose between a more detailed talk about a specific aspect or request a less detailed overview combing all topics in one talk.

If you are interested in a Workshop, please select all options that would be suitable to your S4 class.

Surreal Collage (Double Period)

Personality Patterns (Double Period)

Paper Costumes (Double Period)

Location Sculptures (Double Period)

Not sure yet

We don't currently offer other workshops. If the options above don't work for your S4 class at the moment, keep an eye on our ACES Teacher Newsletter. Sign-up option below. Please read through the workshop descriptions below for more information.

Surreal Collage (Double Period)

During this workshop, pupils will create collaborative collages and learn about Surrealism. Your S4 class will also be introduced to the artist Sarah Jarrett who alters figures within her collages to convey emotion and explore themes of identity and beauty.

Personality Patterns (Double Period)

Your S4 class will be introduced to the artworks of Lubaina Himid who uses clothing and patterns in her work to represent identities. Using a block printing technique, pupils will create a motif for a pattern based on their own personality traits, as we consider how we use clothing and pattern to express our personality.

Paper Costumes (Double Period)

Learning from ideas of Bauhaus costume, this workshop invites students to create paper costumes based on everyday objects. S4 students will learn about character development and consider the impact of living in a time when objects are built to perform human tasks.

Location Sculptures (Double Period)

This workshop will teach S4 students 3D modelling techniques to make Plasticine sculptures of locations. Looking at how a variety of artists and architects are inspired by location, students will make sculptures which draw from memories and imaginings of different places.

Please select all date(s) you are available for delivery of a talk or workshop: *

Please contact me once dates are available for August onwards

Please suggest an alternative date

Please select all date(s) you are available for delivery of a talk or workshop: Please suggest an alternative date

We're now fully booked for spring and summer. We will release dates for August onwards as soon as we can and you can still submit the webform with a date in August and beyond that would work for you. You can also opt to get notified once more dates have been announced. Please select any day that would work for you. You will be able to share the best time of day with us and we'll arrange this with you via email and during our pre-visit meeting. We're a small team and currently only have the dates listed available. However, you can suggest an alternative and we'll be in touch about feasibility.

How many pupils will attend the talk or workshop? *

We offer to deliver workshops to one S4 class of up to 20 pupils. There is no limit on talks. To help us plan, please let us know how many pupils you anticipate to attend.

Please suggest a time for a 30 minute pre-workshop meeting, ideally Mondays or Tuesdays *

This is an opportunity to discuss the upcoming visit and answer any questions you may have. We will send you the details for an online Teams meeting. You won't need to have a Microsoft Teams account to join. Please let us know what day and time would suit you best. This may help us arrange the meeting with you more quickly. Jasmine works Mondays and Tuesdays. However, we will do our best to accommodate other days if need be.

Is there anything else you want to share?

You can also use this space to share whether you or your pupils have any individual requirements or additional support needs that you think we should know.

ACES visiting your school to speak to staff

Our outreach officer, Jasmine, will be travelling to each Local Authority in 2024 to chat to school staff about what we offer at ACES and the talks and workshops that we could host for your students as part of our outreach programme.

To arrange a visit, please click on the relevant booking link below and scroll through to the date offered.

Local Authority days we offered already; Clackmannanshire 30/04/24, East Lothian 29/04/24, Edinburgh 19/03/24, Stirling 14/05/24.

ACES Teacher Newsletter sign-up

Local state school teachers in relevant ACES subject areas or support roles can sign up to receive our newsletter. You will receive approximately one newsletter per month about events for ACES pupils as well as CPD opportunities. You can unsubscribe at any time.

The ACES Teacher Newsletter may be of interest to you if are a

Teacher of relevant ACES subject areas including Art and Design, Photography, Graphic Communication, Design and Manufacture, Drama
Teacher in a support roles such as Guidance Teachers, Heads of House, Career Advisers or Pupil Support

In one of the following Local Authorities

Edinburgh
The Lothians (East Lothian, Midlothian & West Lothian)
Scottish Borders
Falkirk
Stirling
Clackmannanshire

By booking a school visit or signing up to the ACES Teacher Newsletter you understand and accept the following terms and conditions with regards to the use of your data:

ACES Edinburgh will retain the details you have submitted on their database, as well as any future correspondence and details of ACES events that you attend.

ACES Edinburgh staff will use the contact details you have provided to contact you with information about the project and related events. External (non University of Edinburgh) workshop providers will only be provided with your contact details / emergency contact details for emergency purposes for the workshop(s) that they provide, in the absence of ACES Edinburgh staff.
Your data will be retained for a maximum of seven years and may be used for the purposes of monitoring and tracking.
ACES Edinburgh may liaise with other departments within the University of Edinburgh - and other universities where appropriate - about any future application you are supporting and may share details of ACES events you have attended.
Your personal data will not be shared with anyone outwith the University of Edinburgh (other than point 2 above).

For full information on how we will use your personal data, please see our privacy statement at the link below:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-recruitment/about/use-of-personal-data/registering-for-a-widening-participation

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