Enterprise in Education

Gullane Primary School are running a number of activities this week to demonstrate how they use enteprising approaches across the curriculum.
The nursery are having a tooth brushing and hand washing week, with information being sent out to parents and demonstrations in class. On Tuesday they are having the machine which shows up the germs [...]

For four weeks prior to the October Holidays I had the privilege to work with P4W and Mr Woods on a Curriculum for Excellence project. The project was all about shadow puppets and it turned out to be very enterprising as well!!! The children worked in groups to make shadow puppets with moving [...]

 
 Ross High School, along with Musselburgh Grammar School, was lucky enough to be nominated as a participating school in a series of Astronaut visits which took place across Scotland on Wednesday 19th September. 
This was part of the 20th Association of Space Explorers (ASE) Planetary Congress which was held in Scotland and involved over 90 astronauts [...]

Over the past few months, we have been developing a pilot project in conjunction with East Lothian Healthy Living service and Saltoun Primary School.  The idea is to set up a forest school area near the school where the young people can be given lessons in a real life context.
Forest School is a concept developed [...]

The winners of this year’s enterprise awards were announced on Friday 22 June.  As previously mentioned, the criteria for this year was more rigorous and the selection of the finalist was very difficult due to the wealth of good practice shown.  This will be shared across the authority in due course.
The winners were:
Enterprising Teaching and [...]

Tomorrow is our annual Enteprise in Education Awards ceremony which is designed to recognise the achievements of both schools and businesses across the authority this year.  As mentioned previously in the blog, the criteria for this year was more rigorous with a panel of judges looking at the various submissions.  There are three categories of [...]

Make it in Scotland is an opportunity offered by Careers Scotland for S2s to find out more about the Manufacturing Sector in Scotland and especially about the importance to that sector of pupils with science, maths and technology qualifications, before making their Subject Choices. As Careers Scotland wish to change to a new format, all [...]

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 [...]