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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.
- Posted on 04 February 2009 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Curriculum for Excellence Practice, Curriculum for Excellence, Topics, Good Practice Conferences, HMIE, Partners, Health and wellbeing, Curriculum.
- Tagged as home economics, HMIE, good practice, enterprise.
Summing up
Melanie Weldon leads the Enterprise and Employability for Young People Division within the Scottish Government.
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.
- Posted on 06 February 2009 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Curriculum for Excellence Practice, Curriculum for Excellence, Assessment and Achievement, Topics, Good Practice Conferences, HMIE, Partners, Health and wellbeing, Curriculum.
- Tagged as home economics, HMIE, good practice.
A School of Ambition: Kirkland High School and Community College
Watch this secondary school implement new initiatives under the Schools of Ambition programme. The video explores how these school develops leadership skills, teaches Skills for Work courses and fosters ambition. Watch this secondary school implementing various initiatives under the School of Ambition programme. This video explores how the school fosters leadership skills at all levels, but particularly amongst young people. A number of School of Ambition projects are described, including expressive arts, hairdressing and beauty services.
- Posted on 05 December 2008 under Leadership in Schools, Dimension 8: Empowerment, Dimension 4: Leadership, Dimension 3: Vision, Dimension 10: Ambition, Dimension 1: Learning, Broad area 4: People, Broad area 3: Partnership, Broad area 2: Leadership and vision, Broad area 1: Learning and teaching, Journey to Excellence, Topics, Dimension 8: Empowerment, Dimension 4: Leadership, Dimension 3: Vision, Dimension 10: Ambition, Dimension 1: Learning, Broad area 4: People, Broad area 3: Partnership, Broad area 2: Leadership and vision, Broad area 1: Learning and teaching, The Journey to Excellence, HMIE, Partners, Expressive arts, Curriculum.
Growing plants with a garden centre
Video showing how Hopetoun Garden Centre helped children at Ladywell Nursery to grow their own plants so they could learn about the environment and healthy eating.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Health and wellbeing, Curriculum.
Financial education reaches other curriculum areas
A visit to the Musem on the Mound in Edinburgh supported history and art as well as financial education for these P5 pupils at Royal Mile Primary School.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Numeracy, Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Social studies, Mathematics, Curriculum.
Design curriculum enhanced by linking with IKEA
Sudents at Beeslack High School design products for a competition sponsored by IKEA helping them work to a brief and make design choices for a commercial environment.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Technologies, Expressive arts, Curriculum.
Pupils learn how to run a café
Isobel Mair School and East Renfrewshire Council went into partnership to enable pupils to develop the skills needed to run an enterprise selling cakes to council employees.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Mathematics, Health and wellbeing, Curriculum.
Business challenge boosts core skills
The partnership between Dumbarton Academy and local businesses enables two students to do extended work experience and expand their options for future training and employment.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Numeracy, Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Mathematics, Curriculum.
Designing gifts for a visitor attraction
Amazonia, Scotland's only indoor tropical rainforest, asked Carluke High School pupils to research and design products for their gift shop.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Expressive arts, Curriculum.