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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.
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.
Preparing and serving a gala dinner
Local farmers and chefs helped Perth High School students to grow, source and prepare local produce and serve a high quality dinner to 50 paying guests.
- Posted on 08 September 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Social studies, Sciences, Health and wellbeing, Curriculum.
- Tagged as Perth.
Tailored work experience improves pupils' options
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 08 September 2008 under Numeracy, Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Expressive arts, Curriculum.
Opening the art world
Video showing the partnership between Lossiemouth High School and the National Galleries of Scotland. The school uses webcasts and other technologies to gain access to the national collection of art in Edinburgh. The movie also includes the visit of an artist representing the Galleries who teaches a range of techniques to young people studying art. This case study is part of the Determined to Succeed programme, which illustrates models of successful partnerships between schools, business organisations and employers.
- Posted on 13 August 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Expressive arts, Curriculum.
- Tagged as art.