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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.
Learning about languages and business
Local credit company Avance worked in partnership with Stonelaw High School to emphasise the advantages and importance of languages in business.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Technologies, 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.
E-mentoring brings business knowledge to the classroom
Kinross High School set up an e-mentoring project with local employers Norwich Union for its SQA Internet Basics unit for S2 pupils.
- Posted on 02 October 2008 under Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Technologies, 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.
Southesk Primary School: Number Partners make learning fun
Number Partners is an enterprising link with Glaxo Smith Kline that allows pupils in P4 to interact with adults to help strengthen their number skills. Pupils can play maths games in an informal and fun way that develops numeracy skills that can be tranferred to other maths lessons.
- Posted on 08 September 2008 under Numeracy, Enterprise Practice, Enterprise in Education, Topics, Partnerships with Employers, Determined to Succeed, Partners, Mathematics, Curriculum.
- Tagged as number partners, Glaxo Smith Kline.