Enterprise in Education

On Tuesday 30th January the whole school came out to watch the unveiling of our new full size totem pole.  Last year’s P5 pupils designed planned and designed this as part of a project on John Muir.  All of the class entered a competition to create the faces on the pole and the four winning [...]

This term we took a group of children to a business breakfast.  This was organised by East Lothian Council and was an opportunity for business leaders to learn about the benefits of business partnerships.  We have five business partners and were delighted to be able to help.  Two pupils from P4 spoke about the jewellery [...]

All the P7 pupils in the Musselburgh Primary schools gathered at Musselburgh Grammar School on Thursday 22 February to take part in the first transition event of the year, to help them prepare for the move to secondary education in August.
The event was planned and organised by the schools’ Enterprise Co-ordinators and a group of [...]

Primary 5c were involved in UNICEF’s Day for Change on 2nd February to help support education in Kenya. 
  
The pupils raised money by doing a sponsored ‘helping hands’ and they organised a coin collection in the school.  They tried to fill a map of Kenya with the coins.  The pupils in 5c also organised an [...]

Last Thursday saw the annual enterprise transition event held at North Berwick High School.  This is the first of a number of events aimed at easing the transition process.  The main focus of the day is on enterprise and getting the children to work collaboratively in mixed teams from across the cluster.
The task was to [...]

One of the Enterprising tasks we have undertaken as a whole school this session has been the Yellow Woods Challenge. We had to collect as many copies of last year’s Yellow Pages as possible and make a sculpture out of them. As a school, from nursery to P7 and with the help of parents, [...]

So far this session we have had many exciting enterprising activities going on across the whole school. Primary 4 and 6 have been working very closely together on promoting recycling in Loretto. They have worked with ‘Changeworks’, presented an assembly and organise the weekly collection and disposal of any recyclable materials. Primary 3 worked very [...]

The P7’s had a very successful Burns Afternoon at Tranent Primary School.  They prepared and arranged a Burns celebration by researching how a traditional Burns Supper is organised. They found out about the life and works of Rabbie Burns and many Scottish traditions and they produced booklets to present this knowledge.
 
Official invitations were given to [...]