Glasgow CREATE

🎨🎭🎬 Creative Careers Day Call-out🎶📸🩰

Following the success of the 2025 Creative Careers Day, attended by over 200 Senior pupils, we’re delighted to announce our 2026 event. CCD gives pupils a chance to explore pathways in the creative industries through a careers fayre-style event.

👀 We’re on the lookout for inspiring organisations, colleges & universities from across:
• Art & Design
• Dance
• Drama
• Film & Screen
• Music
• Music Technology
• Photography

Could you represent your profession and spark the next generation’s imagination?

Get in touch if you can help or know someone who could!

⭐ Trades House School Craft Competition 2026 ⭐

An inspiring afternoon celebrating all things creative and craft! Congratulations to all of the successful pupils and thank you for continuing to offer this opportunity for schools.

💥 Dance Day 2026 💥

Last week 70 young people worked with the amazing and to develop their dance skills. An inspiring and creative set of workshops which also gave the dancers the chance to hear about the different routes into dance careers and the importance of physical wellbeing.

Thank you for the venue.

🎻 Instrumental Music Instructor – Baby Strings

Help young people discover the joy of music through Glasgow’s Baby Strings programme.

Working in primary schools across the city, you’ll deliver whole-class string tuition, inspire confidence and creativity, and help children develop skills that can lead to a lifelong engagement with music.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of one of Glasgow’s most successful music education programmes and make a real difference to young learners.

📍St Brigid’s Primary School
🎻 Whole-class string teaching
✨ Inspire the next generation of musicians

Find out more and apply:
https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/instrumental-music-instructor-baby-strings-474047

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🥁 Music Instructor – Percussion

Glasgow City Council is seeking to appoint two Instrumental Music Instructors (Percussion) to work across establishments throughout the city.

If you are a passionate musician with a commitment to inspiring children and young people through music, this is an opportunity to support learners from beginner level through to advanced performance and SQA courses.

📍 City-wide posts
🎵 2 positions available
🎓 Teach, inspire and support the next generation of young musicians

Find out more and apply:
https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/music-instructor-percussion-2-positions-city-wide-473976

ExpressiveArts

Next week it’s the third and final round of Expressive Arts exams. Good luck to all of the candidates!

Thank you to all the schools that have taken part in our YMI city-wide project this year, we can’t wait to share the final performance video! It has been a joy to see so many children learning Skipinnish song ‘Alive’ using English, Makaton and Gaelic! 🎶
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The band were delighted to help with the special Glasgow schools project which saw pupils learn both Gaelic and Makaton

Do you attend a GCC school? Do you like to sing or are developing instrumental music skills? Come and join our free weekly music groups, which begin again in September.

New members: visit our website to read about the groups on offer & their entry requirements. Then sign up!

Returning members: all members *must* complete a new registration form via our website.

Speak to your Music teacher or instructor to find out more!

Round two for Expressive Arts exams. Next week we have Dance, Drama & Music Technology - good luck to all of the candidates!

🎶 🎭 CREATE Champions Conference 2026 🎨🕺🎥

A fantastic day of expressive arts learning for Primary Teachers from across Glasgow schools. We explored the theme of Commonwealth Games and cultures from around the world through practical art & design, dance, drama and music activities for the classroom. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

Special thanks to Sam Glazer and musicians for an inspiring BBC Ten Pieces workshop which set us up for the day ⭐️