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

1004, 2019

Senior Phase Programme, a school-college partnership.

Glasgow City Council in partnership with East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire have created an effective school-college partnership. The programme currently supports over 1000 young people to ensure that all young people are supported toward a career pathway. There are two strands: SCQF Levels 1-3 SCQF Levels 4-7 Links have been developed with the local colleges to provide a wide range of different courses and levels in order to showcase

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

0502, 2019

Yokerburn Early Years

Extended day centre within Yoker area of North West Glasgow. Nursery caters for children from 0–5 years from a multitude of cultural, social, economic and learning backgrounds. The establishment has been raising awareness of job roles within local community by working with a range of different partners . This inspires the children and provides an early introduction into the world of work. The children have been working with a local care home to

2811, 2017

LANTRA 2017 – Career Workshops and Skills Events

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November 28, 2017
Learning for Sustainability, Outdoor Learning, Parentzone Scotland, Sciences, Skills, Technologies
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The latest event in a series of workshops and events on career pathways and skills development in the land-base, aquaculture and environmental industries, will take place on Thursday, 14 December, Westerwood Hotel, Cumbernauld (10am – 3pm). (contact: 01738 310164 or Scotland@lantra.co.uk) Two recent LANYRA career workshops run for SDS career staff, teachers, DYW regional groups etc. were held in Perth & Lanark. Here are the links to the presentations from

1606, 2016

Save the Children Resilience Project

Peter Murray
June 16, 2016
Broad General Education, Community Resilience, Health and wellbeing, Health and wellbeing, Learning for Sustainability, Outdoor Learning, Responsibility of All, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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Save the Children are looking for two schools to take part in a resilience project that aims to strengthen children’s understanding of emergencies and the actions they can take to prepare themselves, their families and their communities. Click here for more information on the project . It is aimed at children aged 9 – 11 and participating schools will be given a £1000 budget. You can also contact Graham

1606, 2016

Community resilience networking event May 2016

Peter Murray
June 16, 2016
Broad General Education, Community Resilience, Health and wellbeing, Learning for Sustainability, Outdoor Learning, Sciences, Skills, Social studies
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Friday 13th, unlucky for some but not for us last month, when resilience professionals and education colleagues met to discuss how they could work together, to ensure our children and young people would be best prepared for the challenges they may face in the 21st Century as a result of a change in Scotland’s climate. To find out what was discussed, click here Conference Report May 2016. To have your say in

2605, 2016

‘Design-Engineer- Construct’: The Engineering Challenge for Schools now SCQF credit rated

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May 26, 2016
Creativity, Learning for Sustainability, National Qualifications, Sciences, Secondary, Sector, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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Design Engineer Construct!® has now been formally recognised in Scotland thanks to the key support of the Chartered Institute of Building, and is already piloting in Drummond High School in Edinburgh, Garnock Academy in Kilbirnie, and St Joseph’s Academy in Kilmarnock where student take up and attitude has been impressive. Comprising an introductory and intermediate programme of study, DEC! has been credit rated onto the SCQF by SQA’s Credit Rating

0305, 2016

Enterprise in Early Learning and Childcare

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May 3, 2016
Early Learning and Childcare, Family learning, Skills
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One of the ambitions of Scotland CAN DO is “to achieve an education system with entrepreneurship and innovation at its core.” This ambition does not begin with secondary, or even primary schools – early learners can get involved too! Scotland’s Enterprising Schools is a new resource available for educational practitioners to inspire enterprising and entrepreneurial learning across the curriculum. The resource was developed in partnership with Education Scotland and the

0409, 2015

Get Energised

Peter Murray
September 4, 2015
CfE, National Qualifications, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills
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National Museums Scotland FREE Secondary Schools Renewable Energy Programme Get Energised Challenge Days Level: National Qualifications 4-5 Physics Pupil numbers: Pupils work in teams of four, competing against teams from other schools. Maximum 20 pupils (five teams) from each school at each Challenge Day. Dates available: National Museum of Rural Life (East Kilbride) Wed 28, Thu 29 & Fri 30 Oct 2015 National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh) Mon 9 &