1504, 2020

Lochend Community High School: Developing the Young Workforce

Peter Murray
April 15, 2020
Broad General Education, CfE, Health and wellbeing, Primary, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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At Lochend Community High school they strive to open up opportunities for all of young people regardless of ability or background. They have a strong focus on Developing the Young Workforce across the whole school and through their links with colleges, universities, employers, local business and other organisations. They want to embed work related learning opportunities across the whole school. They continue to expand and develop skills through a range

1504, 2020

Abercromby Primary- Skills Approach

Peter Murray
April 15, 2020
Primary, Skills
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327

The school supports Clackmannanshire’s aim of increasing the number of pupils reaching positive destinations. The aim of the ‘Skills Academy’ at Abercromby Primary is to develop skills for learning, life and work from Early to Second Level, across a broad range of curricular areas. The school believe that building confidence to achieve goals should begin as early as possible for all our pupils, alongside equipping them with the skills to

1504, 2020

Marine Engineering Workshop

Peter Murray
April 15, 2020
Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Supporting Learners, Technologies
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278

The Marine Engineering STEM Workshop was chosen to receive the Maritime UK STEM Award for 2019. The award recognizes the quality, hard work and dedication of the team in delivering workshops and promoting DYW and STEM as a route into engineering for pupils in schools throughout Scotland. Since starting the program 4 years ago, they have delivered the workshop to more than 26,000 pupils nationwide. They have developed a new

1312, 2019

Developing the Young Workforce – Early Learning & Childcare and Primary Focus

Peter Murray
December 13, 2019
CfE, Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Skills, Uncategorised
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In order to support the implementation of DYW at early learning & childcare and primary school level Education Scotland DYW team are bringing together teachers, practitioners and DYW leads with experience and interest in this area to participate in workshops. There are three workshops planned in early 2020. The aims of the workshops are to: • share current practice and experiences; • scope requirements to enhance DYW implementation in this

3008, 2019

Scottish Learning Festival 2019 DYW Workshops

Peter Murray
August 30, 2019
CfE, Senior Phase, Skills
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231

The conference, organised by Education Scotland, boasts over 100 seminars and a fantastic line up of keynote speakers and opportunities for professional networking. With a combination of top quality keynote speakers, interactive seminars and the ever popular exhibition, SLF is the ideal place to share thinking and discuss education. Dates 25-26 September 2019 Information about this year’s DYW themed workshops can be found in the DYW-Flyer-SLF1 and in the summary below: A whole school approach

2105, 2019

Scottish Traditional Building Forum Workshops

Peter Murray
May 21, 2019
Senior Phase, Skills
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295

Secondary pupils from schools in Glasgow, Stirling, Perth and Edinburgh took part in traditional building skills event held at various locations. The hands-on practical workshops provided 13 to 15 year olds with the chance to discover more about traditional skills apprenticeships, and allowed them to have a go for themselves. They tried their hand at stonemasonry roof slating, joinery and painting and decorating, expertly assisted by current Modern Apprentices in these trades.

0503, 2019

DYW and Skills

At Castlemilk Day Nursery DYW features as an integral part of the learning and teaching alongside literacy, numeracy and health & wellbeing. The Nursery employs a variety of approaches to allow their children to link the skills they are developing to the world of work, challenging gender stereotyping alongside. Through outdoor learning children at Nursery have opportunity to explore and develop a wide variety of transferable skills across all curriculum

2211, 2018

Foundation Apprenticeships: Preparing Young People for the World of Work

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November 22, 2018
Professional Learning, Senior Phase, Skills
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Foundation Apprenticeships offer young people valuable work-based learning opportunities to develop their skills and employer connections in order to build their future career pathways. Learners will now have the option to select a Foundation Apprenticeship as one of their senior phase subject choices and complete the qualification over one or two years in collaboration with local learning provider, such as a college and with an employer. Skills Development Scotland has developed the Foundation Apprenticeship

2012, 2017

Work Placements Project – Dundee: Enterprise @ the Rep

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December 20, 2017
Creativity, Expressive Arts, Health and wellbeing, Skills, Uncategorised
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235

In December 2017 the Dundee Rep Theatre ran their Enterprise @ the Rep project which saw 73 young people work with more than 30 members of staff and visiting artists across 10 departments over 2 days. Now in its 9th year, this unique project sits at the heart of our core mission to embed Creative Learning practices across the Rep theatre, enabling us to not only develop greater creative opportunities

0108, 2017

Developing essential employability skills through outdoor education

Exposing young people to the outdoors and engaging them in activities that challenge and inspire them has long been highlighted as an important component to support the development of skills for learning, life and work. Resilience , team building, problem-solving as well as acquiring technical skills all help when it come to preparing for the world of work. This has been highlighted by the recent visit of Jamie Hepburn, Scottish