Publication - FOI/EIR release
NuVu's partnership with Kelvinside Academy: FOI release
- Published
- 21 January 2019
- Directorate
- Learning Directorate
- Topic
- Education, Public sector
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
FOI reference: FOI/18/03785
Date received: 21 December 2018
Date responded: 17 January 2019
Date received: 21 December 2018
Date responded: 17 January 2019
Information requested
“I would be grateful if you could provide the content of all documents including emails and minutes of meetings regarding NuVu's partnership with Kelvinside Academy.”
Response
I enclose a copy of the information relevant to your request.
Extract from Annual Engagement visit to Kelvinside Academy on 4 April 2018:
Curriculum
· Partnership with NuVu, a school based in Boston MA founded by Harvard MIT graduates. NuVu provides a curriculum based on project based learning with a focus on science, engineering. NuVu provided a summer school at KA last summer and will do so again on a larger scale this year. Plans for KA’s ‘Innovation School’ (due to begin building this summer) will be in partnership with NuVu with a teacher from the USA being based in the development. Pupils will have blocks set aside for curriculum in the innovation school in the first instance.
Priorities for improvement
· Partnership with NuVu for Scotland’s first ‘Innovation School’
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Contact
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Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
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