As promised – here are the links to the courses mentioned at the Secondary Enterprise in Education Business meeting:
St Nicholas’ Primary Food for Thought Cafe
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
Jim’s Thought for the Week 31/10/11
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R McAlindon
Social Enterprise Academy Information
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/
Thinking about thinking?
Here’s an interesting website – well worth taking a look around and subscribing to the podcasts on itunes.
World of Work Online Tool
If you haven’t already, check out Skills Development Scotland’s World of Work online tool.
It cleverly analyses using a number of clever and engaging approaches.
Especially try the ‘My DNA’ section.
Food for thought for students and teachers alike.
Thought(s) for this week (and next!)
Quite a few quotes here from Jim and the last one from Lynn. These should see you through the October break…
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
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Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed (is)
so you can open one that leads to the perfect road
Katy Perry (Firework)
Business Meetings
The next business meeting for Primary Enterprise Coordinators is on 28th of October 2011 in Gartlea Community Centre, Airdrie ML6 9PL between 13:30 and 15:30.
The next meeting for Secondary Enterprise Coordinators is on 4th November 2011 in Coatbridge Community Centre (St Andrew’s HS Campus) ML5 5EA between 13:30 and 15:30.
Book your place through CPD manager
Dragons’ Lair Change of Dates
Due to unforeseen circumstances the final of this year’s Dragons’ Lair final has been changed from the 25th October to the 20th December.
The deadline for applications has therefore been extended to Friday 18th November.
Please click here for more details on how to enter and apply.
How do you…?
Hi Everyone.
I’ve been getting quite a few enquires from new Enterprise Coordinators asking for suggestions as how to organise the pupils to ensure they have a say in the Enterprise activities within their school.
How does your establishment do this? Do you have a stand-alone Enterprise Leadership Team or is Enterprise covered within your Pupil Council. Have you had any particular problems or successes you’d like to pass on?
It would be really interesting to hear your views. Please leave a reply at the end of this post (by clicking on the ‘response’ part next to the speech bubbles at the top right-hand-side of this post) to briefly outline what you do/are planning to do this session.
This sharing of practice would be of great benefit to all – Thank you!
