NEWS & VIEWS <strong>glasgow</strong>news Do you have news to celebrate? We’d love to hear! Email elizabeth.akass@primarytimes.co.uk SUMMER MISCHIEF IN ALL GLASGOW LIBRARIES FROM 25th JUNE Banish cries of ‘I’m Bored’ and head to your local Glasgow library to get set <strong>for</strong> a <strong>summer</strong> full of mischief and mayhem. Everyone loves the Beano and <strong>for</strong> its 80th birthday we’ve teamed up with Mischief Makers - Dennis, JJ, Gnasher, Rubi and Pieface – to bring you this year’s Tesco Bank Summer Reading Challenge. Take part in this year’s challenge and follow clues to explore Beanotown. Collect special stickers along the way and try to find the mysterious buried treasure. There will be pranks galore and a ton of fun at your local Glasgow Library so get yourself down, grab a pack and get started! Visit www.<strong>glasgow</strong>life.org.uk/libraries Pupils from local primary school fight single use plastic On 18 April pupils from Sunnyside Primary School promoted their #NaeStrawAtAw campaign in the Grand Central Hotel <strong>for</strong> the 2018 Best Bar None Glasgow awards. The pupils, known as the Ocean Defenders, campaign <strong>for</strong> the end of single-use plastic, and have already shown great initiative in convincing Glasgow City Council, and organisations such as Calmac ferries, to stop using plastic straws and opt <strong>for</strong> more environmentally-friendly alternatives. For the first time, the Best Bar None Glasgow awards incorporated the Ocean Defenders’ campaign into their judging, and extra credits were awarded to pubs, clubs, hotels, and specialist venues that could prove that they had made positive changes to reduce their single-use plastic. Eleanor Lee of Community Safety Glasgow said: ‘we are absolutely delighted to support Sunnyside Primary’s #NaeStrawAtAw campaign and have the pupils attend the launch. They are very impressive speakers and knowledgeable about the harm done by plastic pollution. I’m sure they will help convince even more of the licensees to further reduce their use of plastic’. As a historic hub of learning and leisure, New Lanark World Heritage Site is delighted to be hosting the V&A Museum of Childhood’s touring exhibition GAME PLAN: Board Games Rediscovered, in their newly developed Mill Gallery this <strong>summer</strong> from 20th July – 4th November. GAME PLAN celebrates the joy, excitement and occasional frustration of playing board games. This exhibition will include some of the most iconic, enthralling and visually striking games from the V&A’s outstanding national collection of board games. Visitors can enjoy hands-on interactives and see more than 100 objects, featuring games from around the world, and explores the important role of design. Throughout the exhibition, selected games of special interest are highlighted with more detailed in<strong>for</strong>mation on their history and influence. Alongside the exhibition, visitors will also have the chance to enjoy Challenge Games, a themed Trail and Historic Toy sessions. New Lanark will also be running a programme of inclusive sessions with ‘Autism Friendly’ mornings and dementia friendly ‘Games We Played’ Reminiscence sessions. GAME PLAN: Board Games Rediscovered will be open daily at New Lanark from 20th July – 4th November 2018. Visitors can enjoy the exhibition as part of a family day out to New Lanark. Individuals, educational groups and organised groups of all sizes are welcome to visit. Book online be<strong>for</strong>e 19th July using code ‘earlybird’ to receive £1.50 off individual tickets at www.newlanark.org Entries open <strong>for</strong> ‘What is a Children’s Hearing?’ exhibition In the Year of Young People 2018 the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration are putting together an exhibition of photographs which show what children think about children’s hearings. They aim to exhibit the photographs from children and young people <strong>for</strong> members of the Scottish Parliament. Entries are open until 30 October 2018, so get creative! Colour or black and white, buildings or landscapes which capture emotions, a picture of what the children’s hearing is, or what it can do – it’s up to you! The only Lord Provost’s poetry prize winner announced The winner of the Lord Provost poetry competition was announced in April; 12 year-old Oliwia Szymkiewicz from Bankhead Primary School was awarded the trophy <strong>for</strong> her poem ‘When I think’. Lord Provost Eva Bolander and Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, Jim Carruth, presented Oliwia with her award at the City Chambers. The competition runs every year with a different theme, this year’s being limit is that photographs which identify individual children or adults cannot be accepted; however, drawings, sculptures, or other art <strong>for</strong>ms depicting individuals are allowed. Ensure that any people in your artwork are unrecognisable, and don’t take photographs if you are at a child’s hearing. Please send your photograph, the title of your photograph, 250 words explaining your photograph, your name, age, and contact details to: PhotoCompetition2018@scra.gsi.gov.uk. For more in<strong>for</strong>mation, visit www.scra.gov.uk or www.chscotland.gov.uk. ‘Looking Forward Looking Back’. Lord Provost Eva Bolander stated: ‘it’s been an absolute privilege and joy to read all the poems. The exceptional work submitted is a source of huge pride to this city and our young poets deserve our praise. All the judges agree, we’ve been on a very personal journey, with our city’s talented poets, and we feel hugely honoured to have been able to read all their work.’ To read the winning poem, and the runner up poems, visit www.<strong>glasgow</strong>.gov.uk. 4 Primary Times SUMMER Issue www.primarytimes.co.uk/<strong>glasgow</strong>
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