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Enterprising learning and teaching - Audrey Gibson

Enterprising learning and teaching - Audrey Gibson

This video shows Audrey Gibson and a pupil from Larbert High School, Falkirk Council, talking about the Young Enterprise programme. They talk about how this is used throughout the school from creating board games to running a business. The programme is aimed at increasing the confidence of pupils in a working environment and developing their career skills.

Alan McLean – motivating all learners

Alan McLean – motivating all learners

Alan McLean is a Principal Psychologist with Glasgow City Council. He is well known for his work on the ‘motivated school’ and on motivating learners. In this video excerpt from the HMIE Good Practice Conference in 2008 he talks about motivating all learners.

Ashcraig Special School interview

Ashcraig Special School interview

Two pupils discuss their experiences at Ashcraig School in Glasgow and reveal a positive attitude to school and education.

Ticking all the boxes - V Rankin and M Meldrum

Ticking all the boxes - V Rankin and M Meldrum

In this video, teachers Veronica Rankin and Margaret Meldrum, Merkland School, East Dunbartonshire Council discuss how they teach their pupils Home Economics at both Primary and Secondary level. They have been using technology to make classes more enjoyable and have been awarding their pupils certificates of achievement at a monthly 'achievement assembly'. They find that this helps to build the children's self-esteem. For the last two years the school has also been running the government programme 'Hungry for Success'. This programme allows pupils to come up with their own recipes for school dinners and helps them to learn about healthy eating.

The Ramsay Challenge – helping to meet pupils’ needs

The Ramsay Challenge – helping to meet pupils’ needs

Jane St John, Christine Ross and pupils, Carluke High School, South Lanarkshire Council talk about their experience of participating in the Ramsay Challange. In this video we are told how pupils at the school enter a food product development competition and through practical learning methods, come up with sausage ideas for Ramsay's of Carluke. It is also discussed how such methods of learning can prepare pupils for future educational and career paths.

Effective transitions - H McGinnes, A M Pearson, L Quinn

Effective transitions - H McGinnes, A M Pearson, L Quinn

This video hears from Helen McGinness, St. Aidan’s High School, Lisa Quinn, St Matthew’s Primary School and Ann Marie Pearson, St. Ignatius’ Primary School, North Lanarkshire Council. They tell us how they have used Cooking Bus training given to them in 2004 to develop food activities for their pupils. These food activites are now being used to aid the pupils in the transition between Primary and Secondary school.

India comes to Coatbridge - L Sullivan E Black Pupils

India comes to Coatbridge - L Sullivan E Black Pupils

Lorna Sullivan, Elaine Black and pupils, St Ambrose High School, North Lanarkshire Council talk about how they use social and occasional skills and enterprise activities to inspire their pupils to learn. They discuss how practical activities motivate pupils. For example, they talk about how they learned about the culture of India and how this benefited their learning.

Dinner Ladies

Dinner Ladies

Video from Dinner Ladies DVD - HMIe

Partnership Working

Partnership Working

These workshops from HMIE /LTS Good practice conference covered useful practices including outdoor learning and podcasts linking language and science.

Living Locally

Living Locally

The main purpose of the conference was to highlight how effective, innovative practitioners in pre-school, primary, secondary, special schools and further education are taking forward the development of practice in specific aspects of science.