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

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

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

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

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