1312, 2016

DYW Interesting Practice – Ferguslie – Pre-Five Centre: Skills Development in Early Years

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Ferguslie Pre-Five Centre, this year’s Scottish Education Award winner in the category ‘Employability across Learning’, provides a skills based learning approach for children from 3 – 5 years, actively seeking to connect learning to the world of work whenever possible. Through a variety of play contexts and in connection with professionals and local businesses they engage in projects that inspire enterprising attitudes and creativity. At the same time it introduces children to a range of jobs people

1312, 2016

DYW Interesting Practice – Woodfarm High School: A whole school approach to career education

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Woodfarm High School in East Renfrewshire has developed a holistic approach to career education for learners at all levels in order to equip them with the necessary skills to fully realise their aspirations in life. Using the Career Education Standard (CES) an audit had been undertaken to embed the entitlements for young people into the curriculum. In partnership with employers and parents, learners are fully engaged in maximising opportunities to enhance career education across all

1212, 2016

DYW Interesting Practice – Dalziel High School: Skills development through STEM

Dalziel High School has a well established, strategic career education programme from P7 transition to senior phase. At the heart of this is a focus on STEM careers supported by a highly dynamic, award-winning school-employer partnership with the engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler. Throughout their time at Dalziel High School all learners have the opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of STEM-related learning initiatives including STEM fayres, challenges and competitions. Opportunities to

1212, 2016

Scottish Education Awards 2017: Nominations open now!

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Category: Employability across Learning (Early Years/Primary and Secondary) The Scottish Education Awards recognise schools and centres that have developed a vibrant and progressive culture and climate of continuous innovation. The culture and ethos should promote respect, ambition and achievement while improving outcomes for all learners in ways which eliminate inequity. Nominations should include practical activities and projects that the school or centre has undertaken, detailing the impact these strategies have

1212, 2016

Govan High School Marks £2 Million Milestone For Youth & Philanthropy Initiative Scotland

The Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) in Scotland has announced that a total of £2 million has now been awarded to local grassroots charities since the programme was first introduced in Scotland by The Wood Foundation in 2008. This year alone a total of 210 Scottish secondary schools will participate in YPI, actively engaging over 26,500 students in a hands on experience of social action and philanthropy. The latest £3000

0112, 2016

Career Education Standard (3-18): Exemplification Tool offers a ‘helping hand’

This tool will support practitioners in planning and developing new practice in career education and to reflect on existing practice. Based on the ‘I can’ statements in the Career Education Standard (3-18) it provides illustrations of what children and young people might experience in order to help them meet their entitlements. For ease of reference the entitlements have been appended to the resource and linked to each theme. The tool supports practitioners to consider what career