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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.

Lenzie Academy: Fair trade – Teachers’ interview

Lenzie Academy: Fair trade – Teachers’ interview

Three teachers from Lenzie Academy discuss the school's cross-curricular fair trade project, a collaboration by the social studies, modern languages and home economics departments.

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.

Journeys to Excellence - Special Guest, Moira Macfarlane, HM Consul General in Florence

Journeys to Excellence - Special Guest, Moira Macfarlane, HM Consul General in Florence

This film clip from the HMIE Good practice Conference 2008 includes an introduction by Marjory Robertson to the presentation by Moira Macfarlane, HM Consul General in Florence. The speaker’s presentation includes a key focus on how home economics contributes to the development of the Curriculum for Excellence capacities.

Value for money - out of the rut and into the groove! - T McGibbon

Value for money - out of the rut and into the groove! - T McGibbon

A video from the HMIE good practice conference 2008. Tara McGibbon, Beeslack Community High School, Midlothian Council talks about how schools need to make sure that the materials and methods used for learning are accessible to everyone. She discusses how her school works as a community to ensure that they are teaching in a practical and fun way and engaing all of their pupils.

The Growing Home Economics Department - Elaine Gardiner

The Growing Home Economics Department - Elaine Gardiner

Elaine Gardiner, Bannerman High School, Glasgow City Council talks about what her school has done to improve learning and motivate her pupils. In this video, she discusses the programme 'How good is our school?' and how it was used to gather feedback from teachers and pupils. She also talks about how they used this feedback to change courses and make them more appealing to young people. She also discusses the benefits of using Assessment is for Learning and introducing more technology into the classroom.