Scott Lavery\’s Enterprise Blog

I met with Ruthanne Baxter, our Arts Education Officer to discuss how we can incorportae the work she is doing into the enterprise agenda.  We discussed at great length how best we could do this and decided that we would look at how the arts can be used to give real value to the curriculum [...]

I spent all day last Tuesday back in the classroom with the Primary 7’s at St Martin’s Primary School.  I had been invited along as an ‘expert’ in enterprise as the children were planning how they would run their own tuck shop to promote healthy eating and living.  This was my first real experience of being back at [...]

I ran an event for local businesses to raise awareness of Determined to Succeed and the importance of schools and businesses working together in partnership.
The event itself was a great success and I would like to thank all those who took time out of their busy schedules to attend.  From this, a number of exciting partnership [...]

One of the agenda items from yesterday’s strategic forum meeting was to discuss the format for this year’s Enterprise Awards.  Last year’s event was a huge success and raised the profile of Enterprise in education scross the authority and also gave us an opportunity to recognise the efforts of all stakeholders involved in Determined to Succeed.  What I [...]

The East Lothian strategic forum meet three times a year and are responsible for steering our strategy to take forward the recommendations of Determined to Succeed.  Membership is made up of representatives from schools and the authority, local businesses, a represenative from Scottish Executive and parents and carers.  This allows all stakeholders to have a [...]