Issue 8 - February 2007

60th Anniversary
By the time you read this Blog you should have received the 60th Anniversary pin which has been distributed to all staff. We hope this is a suitable small commemoration of the actual birthday date – 3 February 2007.
The 60th Anniversary Committee met again this week to confirm and update the programme of events to mark the Anniversary year. Full details will be available shortly. As part of the planning for the various events two working groups have been set up – a birthday party group consisting of Billy Brown, Linda Faulkner, Declan Fallon, Debby McConville, Margaret MacKenzie, Margaret McClintock, Robert Paterson, Carol Ann Swindle, Fiona Weir and Margaret Wright. Probable date of the party is June 28 (to be confirmed). You will recall, from a previous Blog, that this is a party with a difference, instead of bringing a present we give you one at the party to commemorate being a staff member in the College Anniversary year! If you have any ideas for the party please contact one of the working group members with your thoughts.
The second working party will organise a week long series of events to showcase the College. This will take place 29 May to 1 June 2007. The working group consists of Elaine Proudfoot, Catherine Taylor, all Heads of Faculty/Development Units, David Cooper, John Forbes and John McAdams. This group will be responsible for the Open Day, Student Showcase event and a College Partner visit and lunch event. Again if you have other ideas please let us know.

Good Luck
Anastasia, from the International Office, begins her maternity leave on
7 February. Good luck and best wishes from all at Langside.

Child Protection Training
The CPD Conference has given us an opportunity to update our Child Protection knowledge across the College.
The SFEU have already delivered a session for the LDT in January and are providing Child Protection training during the conference. Training is being delivered on Wednesday 14th February for academic staff and on the morning of Thursday 15th February for support staff.

XLC at the Citizens Theatre
Langside students, past and present, will be performing Antigone from Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th February 2007 at 7.30 pm in the Circle Studio with a matinee on Saturday 17th at 2.30 pm. Tickets cost £10 for adults, £6 concessions and are available from the Citizen’s Box Office, 0141 429 0022 or book online at http://www.citz.co.uk/.
Antigone, originally by Sophocoles, has been adapted by Brian Elsely to create a contemporary, yet timeless version of this classic. It examines the eternal questions of freewill versus fate and of idealism versus pragmatism but it is also a very human story of a young girl who is prepared to defy her king in order to honour burial rites for her brother.
XLC is Langside’s post graduate company created to give our newly qualified actors an early professional platform. Antigone involves XLC actors along with existing students from each of the 3 years of the national Dimploma course.
Please go and support them. It would be great to see you there.

Health Promotion Events
NC Social Care students (two different classes who are not in on the same day) are holding a small Health Promotion Event in the main concourse of the Langside Building on Monday 5th and Thursday 8th February over lunchtime. The topics covered will be Health Eating (samples of food given out), Sexual Health (goody bags for students), Drug and Alcohol awareness (quizzes for all), Dental Health (this is mainly for the nursery children and they will be given toothbrushes etc). On Thursday the students will focus on Breast Cancer Awareness (the pink ribbon campaign) and Testicular Cancer.
This is a practical assessment that lecturer Marion McCusker has organised which meets one of the Learning Outcomes for the unit Health Promotion. Marion is evaluating different ways of assessing the students and making it more interesting for them. The events are staged as a result of hard work by Marion and her students. Please support the event and encourage other staff/students as well.
______________________________________________________
Any ideas, thoughts, scribbles to the Blog – please contact
Robert­­ Paterson or the Secretariat
______________________________________________________