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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

We have been looking at the CPD opportunities relating to Enterprise and wanted to flag up a few of the courses running this term.
APODO Training ECS 359a
Friday 26 January 20071.30pm - 4.00pm
Venue to be confirmed
Spaces are still available on the above course. This is an opportunity for you to use the APODO system and [...]

Each school cluster has an APODO system which they have access to.  The staff development team have organised two dates where staff are shown how to use this resource.  Further details on the APODO system can be found at www.treeof.com/apodo .  The courses are running on 26 January and 2 February.  The first date is being hosted [...]

Businesses across East Lothian are invited to attend our Business Breakfast being held at the Quayside in Musselburgh on Wednesday 17 January 2007 from 8.30am to 10.00am.
The event will allow you to network with other businesses but will also allow you to find out more about the benefits of businesses and education linking together to [...]