Right up there as yin ae ma favourite films 😊

Open Day | FREE Entry | 20 Sep 11am kids crafts | 2pm building tour | spinning demo | treasure hunt #DoorsOpenDays #HIClimateFest #KidsInMuseums #FamilyFriendly

Calling all Lego lovers and anyone who runs a Lego Club! There's lots of maths involved in building with #Lego. With our new Lego Challenge Cards you can take it one step further. Download your free cards at mathsweek.scot/news/finn-fi... #MathsWeekScot #MathsWeekScotland #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Tweed: conversations I 27 Sept, Galashiels. Free, ticketed. A session of poetry reading, riverside conversation & printmaking in celebration of TWEED, a new full-length poem in Scots by Borders-based poet Craig Aitchison www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tweed-conv...

#UrbanPrehistory @ Stockholm’s Tunnelbana stations @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

Braw opportunity tae yaise, lairn or jist celebrate Scots!

🏛️ The Scottish Archaeology Month 2025 programme is live! 👉 Check it out and start planning your September: www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/events/list/ Thanks to @hisenvscot for their support. #ScotArchMonth #HESsupported #archaeologyscotland #communityarchaeology #scottisharchaeology

“Who’ll challenge my nine skills? I’m champion at chess, canny recalling runes, well-read, red-hot smith – some say I shoot and ski and skull skilfully too. Best of all, I’ve mastered harp-play and poetry” @theorkneynews.bsky.social on Orkney’s Warrior Poet 3/3 theorkneynews.scot/2024/07/30/e...

This year’s #ScotsLanguageAwards nominees huv been announced - and oor wee #LearningWithHES community project wi Stanley Primary School hus made the shortlist! Gie thae wee 6 & 7 year aulds a vote here: projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag... dinnae hing aboot - voting closes on 31st Aug!

📣Only 5 weeks to go until our #MathsWeekScot 2025 gala week!! The final parts of the programme are coming together, you can see what's already been confirmed on our website here mathsweek.scot/events #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Weel, the #LEGO Builders have done it again! Some brilliant builders fae Brora helped us recreate the famous #Brora #brickworks ower 3 days yaisin images & plans fae HES archives & other sources. #LearningWithHES

Great little piece of research on the lost Quoiting grounds of Scotland blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/08/quoi...

#LifeAsALearningOfficer - heading north to Brora for oor BIG LEGO Build this week and Blair Atholl seemed an appropriate place for a lunch stop .. for a #waterwheel nerd!

These paper plates are still keeping me occupied. There’s no stop-frame gimmicks used here, just my hands and a bit of practice. 😁👍 www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky

“Hip, hip, hooray, it’s The Burryman’s Day!” Guid luck tae Andrew on his circuit roond South Queensferry #TheBurryman2025

🩵 If you love music and Scotland then you might like SNACK mag’s art prints, featuring classic Glasgow/Edinburgh venues. They are cracking and if you buy one then my editor will let me out of my crate to have a cup of tea 🩵

As @handsupfortrad.bsky.social hae announced that nominations ir open fir the 2025 Scots Language Awards, we ir mindit o the braw folk an projects that hae won in previous years, like this animation fae Historic Environment Scotland an the bairns o Perth High School. youtu.be/YT38Z_3oVBo?...

Teachers. Home learners. Maths fans. - It's the moment you've all been waiting for. The 2025 #MathsWeekScot Activity Packs are now available on our website! mathsweek.scot/schools/lear... Produced in collaboration with Education Scotland. #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #STEMeducation

Its #Playday2025 the morrin! There will be special #SpacesForPlay at Jedburgh Abbey, Blackness Castle & Stanley Mills for families to come & play at these amazing historic sites! From building blocks & bricks to costumes, giant board games & Victorian toys #LearningWithHES @playscotland.bsky.social

Twae weeks tae go until the LEGO Builders pack thir kit and heid up north tae Brora tae dae some work fir Clyne Heritage Society. They’ll need aw the help they kin get tae build the auld Brora Brickworks oot ae LEGO bricks - fae kilns & drying sheds tae machine rooms & cottages. #LearningWithHES

Pit yer nominations in fir Scots Leid’s muckle event ae the year: projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...

I highly recommend reading this one out loud, even if your Scots is something less than perfect.

Another delivery of Morsbags from the wonderful Strathnaver Stitchers. Morsbags are made from unwanted & discarded fabric: reusing material, reducing material going to landfill, & reducing plastic use. Available with large purchases while stocks last. #GreenTourism #HighlandMuseums #HIClimateFest

We're busy with our drop-in morning. @jpopstudios.bsky.social is chatting about the #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture project & making underwater bug hotels with folk. Our Climate Change Exhibitions & Outreach Officer Katy Firth is talking about seaside wildlife.

#ScotsOnHoliday The Cursing Stane in Carlisle. A monument to the Bishop of Glesgae’s 16thC curse agin the Border Reivers. Featuring c300 o his c1000 words in #Scots ! He fairly went tae toun! “I curse thair heid and all the haris of thair heid; I curse thair face, thair ene, … thair schulderis.” 😄

News | Project launched to safeguard intangible cultural heritage in Scotland – @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk initiative will fund partnerships between 'tradition bearers' and cultural heritage organisations

Twae ae the three Thaney’s Haven project banners are noo installed at Culross Abbey Church for the run of Maiden Mother Mage - the braw poetic and dramatic reimagining ae St Tenew bi Rebecca Sharp - thit sterted the night. #LearningWithHES

A Kick Up the Arts podcast @nicolameighan.bsky.social discusses SMALL TOWN JOY with musician & writer @carriem.co.uk, & is joined by musician Laura Jane Wilkie, whose album VENT is centred around waulking songs. Recorded at Glasgow’s @womenslibrary.bsky.social www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/car...

#LifeAsALearningOfficer - when it’s the weekend but you end up visiting a Hoffman kiln as part of planning for your next LEGO event…😄

The Shows Those skinny boys We thought they were all The Bay City Rollers Double denim all the way Feather cuts and rollies Jackets smelled of onions They shoved you on to the Waltzer Where you whirled Spun like candyfloss #PegsPoyums

The LEGO Builders are returning to Dundee Libraries - and this time they’re going micro! Join them at the The WEE Claypotts LEGO Build to create your ain micro model of the castle to take hame! #LearningWithHES www.facebook.com/100069903108...

Exciting to see this coming together! It’s Faifley’s new school campus with Cochno Stone rock art inspired design and colour scheme. #UrbanPrehistory #FaifleyRocks

#UrbanPrehistory by the seaside - in the Lodge Gairdens @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

#LifeAsALearningOfficer - the white gloves were on yesterday to set up oor wee pop-up community display at Stanley Mills. Donated and gaithered objects show the different ways the mills have been visually represented - fae paintings tae postcairds tae posters. #LearningWithHES

Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine opens tomorrow 🧵 Explore the rich history of Palestinian dress and the ancient art of tatreez – a hand-embroidery tradition where every stitch tells a story. Find out more here: va.scot/4enu2sk

Guess where the #LEGO Builders are off to this summer…?! Stay tuned for details of how you can join them on their next BIG Build! #LearningWithHES

New podcast incoming! Alice LePage explores the world of small #museums in the UK. pca.st/xnza920a 🏛️🎓

Shush Whisper our language behind sheds and toilets. Pass crumpled notes under desks, conceal it in handshakes and kisses. Our toungue hides, afraid of a hiding. Those who crave control won't understand, so they fear. Their only response is to crush and silence, but not to learn. #PegsPoyums

“We’re really looking forward to showing you St Fagans – an experience that will look and feel very different from past MA conferences.” We’re shaking things up at MA Conference 2025, our first at an open-air museum. Have a read of this introduction to #Museums2025 by @simonastephens.bsky.social 👇

New #job with GEM. Freelancer required to research, develop, pilot & deliver a “how to use your local museum” session for schools & colleges in #Wales Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/heritag... Apply by 18 July #GEMJobs #HeritageLearning #MuseumLearning #Freelancer #FreelanceWeek

Plans tae forder and uphaud the uise o Gaelic and Scots hae been passed by the Scots Pairliament. www.gov.scot/news/scottis...

Weel this is a muckle step forrit for Scots! 😊

Spotting maths all around us: tactile paving to help blind and partially-sighted people identify road crossings. #Squares with a #square number of bumps inside them (6x6). #MathPhoto25 #UKMathsChat #MathsToday #tmwyk

300 years ago today, the Orkney pirate John Gow was hanged at Execution Dock, London on 11 June 1725. The telescope Gow used during his doomed standoff at the Calf of Eday is on display at Stromness Museum, alongside an original copy of Daniel Defoe’s 1726 account of his trial. 🏴‍☠️

Hot topics... today's play sufficency report from central government: intergenerational and adult play; permission and invitations to play; space design with communities, housing, and planning. Fab chats with awesome people, including our plans at Abbey House Museum!

Afro-Scottish Poetry Event 2025 25 July, Glasgow. Tickets £0–£10 A multicultural evening of poetry, music, & storytelling that celebrates African & Scottish identities through powerful performances. Created & curated by Chisom Okoronkwo with U Belong Glasgow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afro-scott...

Finding Common Ground: New Scots Stories 16 June @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Edinburgh Discover migration stories new & old; hear seldom-heard voices; & find common ground in journeys across landscapes, languages, & literatures Part of Refugee Festival Scotland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-co...

Place-names make a unique contribution to our understanding of how we humans have interacted with our environment over the centuries. Join us for six lectures exploring Scottish place-names, sponsored by Ordnance Survey. Free online tickets are still available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhind-lect...