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Keynote address: Adam Ingram, Minister for Children and Early Years

Keynote address: Adam Ingram, Minister for Children and Early Years

Adam Ingram Keynote at Healthy Food in Schools conference – Celebrating Success and Rising to the Challenge

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.

Healthy eating - food production

Healthy eating - food production

Video explaining the basics of food production as part of healthy eating project at Dollar Academy. Outside speakers and visits to supermarkets help to follow the journey from farm to fork. Pupils tasted local foods and learnt about hygiene before takling the design challenge.

Healthy eating - impact

Healthy eating - impact

Video explaining the impact of healthy eating project at Dollar Academy. Hand-on activities and practical advice helps to engage pupils.

Healthy eating - next steps

Healthy eating - next steps

Video pexplaining some of the future plans leading from the healthy eating project at Dollar Academy

Healthy eating - Dollar Academy

Healthy eating - Dollar Academy

Video explaining the aims of healthy eating project at Dollar Academy. With help from the home economics department, the pupils would gain an understanding of basic hygiene rules and cooking skills as well as the knowledge and understanding associated with healthy eating.

John Carnochan - Health and education

John Carnochan - Health and education

John Carnochan discusses the health and education within the Early Years Framework at Early Years Good Practice conference

Food and drink challenge for pupils at Bo’ness Academy

Food and drink challenge for pupils at Bo’ness Academy

After reading a Determined to Succeed publication, Caledonia Produce were inspired to team up with Bo’ness Acedemy to set pupils the challenge of producing a marketable product that could be supplied and sold by M&S. Caledonia Produce worked closely with the pupils and staff using a team based approach and involving a number of departments such as Business Studies, Home Economics, PSE and Art and Design. The schools and employer worked together to devise a syllabus that would not only take forward the outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence but also deliver a project that was not only challenging but enjoyable.

A community of co-researchers: Renfrewshire Educational Psychological Services

A community of co-researchers: Renfrewshire Educational Psychological Services

Discover how a close working relationship between an educational psychology service and teachers as co-researchers has been improving outcomes for learners through the Motivated Schools initiative. Renfrewshire Council's psychological services team is working with teaching staff to create a community of co-researchers in key educational issues. Educational staff, school headteachers, key speakers and students outline methods such as reflection on practice, pupil involvement and specialised assistance - approaches integral to the Motivated Schools initiative.