Interesting Practice Exemplars
The following interesting practice examples are available on the National Improvement Hub. Click on the below links to find out more:
- ‘Angus Works’: Extended work placements for senior phase pupils
- Woodfarm High School: A whole school approach to career education
- Dalziel High School: Skills development through STEM
- Ferguslie – Pre-5 Centre: Skills Development in Early Years
- Skills Academy programme at St Matthew’s Academy (North Ayrshire): Young people gain vital employability and life skills through this unique initiative
- SCOTS programme at Forth Valley College: Helps learners consider college courses as a progression route in the senior phase
- Kibble Education and Care Centre: integrated services to equip disadvantaged young people with the skills and experience to pursue a fulfilling career and a brighter future
- 2+3 pilot project in East Ayrshire: Re-engages learners to industry-focused pathways
- Millburn Area School Group: Developing Career Management Skills
- Clyde Gateway: Scotland’s most ambitious regeneration project in Glasgow’s East End
- Pre-Apprenticeship Programme at Govan High School (Glasgow): A highly dynamic partnership programme with a local employer
- Caskieberran Primary School: Career education in the primary sector. The career education standard has enhance career education across the school and wider cluster
- ‘Workout’ programme at South Ayrshire Council: A local authority project to deliver sustainable positive destinations for targeted young people in the senior phase
- ‘Teen Takeover’ and Community Café, Sandwick Junior High School, Shetlands: Two initiatives to enhance the development of skills for learning, life and work
- Work-based learning initiatives in Dumfries and Galloway: 6 specific work placement opportunities delivered by local employers to support the development of skills
- Calderglen High School: Inspirational learning delivered in partnership
- Sanderson High School: Tailored learning pathways to meet the needs of all
- Busby Primary School: Skills development at the core of the curriculum
- Craigroyston Community High School: Developing skills to realise aspirations
- Bonhill Primary School: A whole school approach to enterprise and employability education
- Scottish Food and Drink Federation and Bathgate Academy: An industry partnership project
- Senior phase pathways: Taking forward CfE in the senior phase in three secondary schools: Three secondary schools describe some innovative aspects of their senior phase curriculum, including two-year courses leading to qualifications
Scottish Engineering Leaders Project – Journey of Mill O’Forest School
Find out more about the Digital Learning and Skills Development case studies:
- Busby Primary School looks at how building digital skills at an early age can impact on career readiness and be used across the curriculum to enhance learning and teaching
- Other case studies shared during Digital Learning Week 2017
- Thought piece from NDLF member Rob Stephen (Aberdeen)
- Dumfries and Galloway Primary School pupils have been expanding their career horizons with the help of new digital career education tools
Click on the links below to find out more on the interesting practice examples published by Education Scotland, Skills Development Scotland and other authorities:
- Maisondieu Primary School (Angus): Opening horizons and challenging stereotypes through career education
- St Mary’s Primary School (North Ayrshire): Work-based learning opportunities through community partnerships
- Cumbernauld Primary School (North Lanarkshire): A group of pupils are proving it’s never too early to start thinking about your career
- Glasgow Clyde College’s Make it in Fashion event: Secondary pupils show they have what it takes to make it in fashion
- Inverness Primary School: The Minister for Employability and Training has been put through his digital paces by pupils from an Inverness Primary School
- Renfrewshire Council: Developing the Young Workforce: Online toolkit to support schools