Enterprise in Education

Today, our P7 Games Captains saw their Football and Netball Teams play their rivals.   The Captains choose the teams and the referees.   While each game has an adult in the background, the pupils are left to remember (or forget) to organise netball posts, balls and whistles.
Winning Netball House:Penston
Wining Football House: Penston

award-document.doc
I have attached the draft document for the enterprise awards this year and would appreciate any comments on this before the plan is finalised.

Pupils and staff in all the Musselburgh schools have been very busy this session so far, being involved in a wide range of enterprise activities and experiences. We hope that you enjoy reading about what has been going on and sharing in the ideas coming from the schools.
On 22 February all the P7 pupils in [...]

Whitecraig Primary has a number of exciting enterprise activities underway. A food co-operative has been set up which involves the whole community and, with the help of professional banking staff, a weekly savings scheme has been started. Following on from  a successful Christmas enterprise day, a similar event is planned for Easter, when parents will [...]

Levenhall Nursery pupils went to the Lickety Spit production of the Green Whale at the Brunton Theatre and prepared for this with lots of play about sea creatures and pirates. The pre school pupils have recently visited Pinkie school for a singalong with Miss Ireland the music teacher. They have met with the community policeman [...]

Pinkie St Peter’s Primary has been busy too.The P1 pupils held a Burns afternoon for parents, performing songs and poems. Each parent was given a goody bag with a tartan bookmark and shortbread at the end. P2 has developed a bookshop within the class to encourage reading for enjoyment and to link to World Book [...]

Musselburgh Burgh Primary has also been involved in a range of exciting enterprise activities.  P7 reading Buddies are organising an easter egg hunt for their wee buddies in P2.  On Red Nose day the whole school took part in fundraising devised and organised by the P6 pupils.  P5 pupils are taking part in a range [...]

Loretto Primary  have had many exciting enterprise activities going on across the whole school. P4 and P6 children have been working closely together on promoting recycling in the school. They have worked with the Changeworks people, organised and presented an assembly and do weekly collections and disposal of recyclable materials. P3 pupils worked hard to [...]

Campie Primary pupils are very busy too with lots of enterprising work going on. P1 pupils paid a visit to Newhailes Nursery to buy seeds, which they planted up in pots. These are now growing well and will be sold at the P1 parents’ open day which the children and their teachers are busy organising.The [...]

Stoneyhill Primary has established a new business link with Wilson’s Fresh Farm Produce, in Musselburgh, which has provided fresh fruit and veg for the school’s recent Health Promotion Week. Infant children at the school have been learning about maths concepts through the natural environment and have recently enjoyed using individual and whole class learning logs.  [...]