Is your establishment planning anything for this week’s Global Entrepreneur focus? If you are, please tell us about it. We are designing a new Blog to showcase good Enterprise practice from around our Authority and we need your help. From ante-preschool to S6, we want to show and share good practice.
Please send any photos or clips to Lynn Taylor on First Class.
The Design Enterprise Challenge has been a valuable feature of North Lanarkshire’s Enterprise and Art and Design programme for a number of years. Teams of students from secondary schools all over North Lanarkshire are given the opportunity to experience a design and enterprise challenge within the City of Glasgow College. The teams consist of both Art and Design and Business Education students working together to produce and market a creative outcome. Over the years teams have been tasked with diverse challenges, from designing packaging for the Coca Cola Company to creating promotional products for the 2011 International Children’s Games. As highlighted in Building The Curriculum 4, Curriculum for Excellence can best be delivered through partnership working. The Design Enterprise Challenge delivers this through the City of Glasgow College and North Lanarkshire sharing a common understanding around skills development and application. Together they plan and deliver experiences which meet the needs of individual young people, actively engaging them with opportunities for skills development in real life contexts.
2012 Challenge Arrangements
The Teams:
Teams consist of 6 S3 pupils accompanied by a teacher. The split of Business Education students to Art and Design students should be 2:4.
Briefing Morning:
The briefing morning will be held on Tuesday 31st January 2012 in Kildonan Street.
The briefing will consist of two parts and clearly outline the research the teams will be required to carry out prior to the Challenge Day.
Teams will be issued with guidelines on the format that their research should be presented in.
The City of Glasgow College staff will further illustrate this by showing the pupils examples of their students’ mood boards and workbooks
Challenge Day:
The Challenge will be fully
revealed on the morning of the Challenge Day of Wednesday 14th March. It has been decided not to fully reveal the challenge until this time to ensure originality and a level playing field for teams on the Challenge Day.
Teams will have ICT access in order to carry out any further background research information they may need for the specific task. Business Education pupils will be charged with recording the design process using digital media in order to produce a promotional piece for the Presentation Evening.
Presentation Evening:
The Presentation Evening will take place on Tuesday 27th March.
If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Lynn Taylor on First Class.
Education Scotland has made video clips available to download on a whole host of topics. We especially like the World of Work clips where people talk about various jobs and what they entail.
Click on the pic for more information.
November is Enterprise Month.
Here’s a wee nugget of good stuff from last year from Education Scotland. Packed full of ideas and resources.
Click on the pic for the link.
Funding Available – Click on the Picture for more details!
| Creative Enterprise Fund Launched for Young Entrepreneurs |
| The Creative Enterprise Fund is designed to support young people in Scotland, aged 15-22, with activities which allow them to flourish within the creative industries. It aims to encourage enterprising and innovative ideas and assist these young people to become creative leaders.
Funding is available to individuals and groups. The maximum amount available to individuals is £200 and the maximum available to groups is £750. The Fund can support a variety of creative ventures. Examples of eligible projects include:
Young people living in Scotland aged 15-22 are eligible. Applications must be from Young Scot cardholders and include the Young Scot cardholder’s Young Scot card number. If applying as a group, a Young Scot cardholder must fill in the application. Groups are classed as three or more people and at least two-thirds of any group should be aged 15-22 years. The Creative Enterprise Fund Grants Committee meets every two months. The next deadline for applications is Monday 14 November 2011. |
If your IDL task is on the theme of the Olympic Games, or if you are going to do absolutely anything within your classes related to London 2012, please register with Get Set! Click on the pic for the link.
Registration closes in December!
As promised – here are the links to the courses mentioned at the Secondary Enterprise in Education Business meeting:
Claire Kane, Carla Watson and Simon Kelly from St Nicholas’ Primary School, Broxburn, West Lothian came along to our well attended Primary Business Meeting for Enterprise on Friday 28th October.
They talked about their award winning approach to Social Enterprise that has been running in the school over the past year in order to give North Lanarkshire staff a flavour of how to organise and develop a Social Enterprise approach.
For more information on the cafe click here
We are very fortunate to have Claire Fraser and Bert McGlone from the Scottish Social Enterprise Academy coming along to our next Primary Business meeting on the 28th October. To find out more information please check out their brilliant website and blog.
We’ll be hosting a Understanding Social Enterprise Workshop on the 25th November. It is funded by the Scottish Government – more details to follow. If you’re interested please email Lynn.
http://www.theacademy-ssea.org/
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