Enterprise and Employability Across Learning Award (Primary)

This category recognises the schools and pre-schools that are helping children and young people develop the necessary skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work, essential to learning and education under Curriculum for Excellence. The award will focus on the development of enterprise and employability skills and the significant role that employers play in partnership with schools to provide a context for learning.  (The award will recognise both the school or pre-school and the partner employer).

If you can respond positively and in some detail to the following questions, we would welcome your nomination.

• How are these skills being developed across all curriculum areas, in interdisciplinary studies and in all the contexts and settings where children are learning?

• How are you developing a shared understanding of what enterprise and employability skills are with children?  How are you supporting children to identify how these skills are used across the curriculum and beyond school in their life?

• How are you ensuring children and their parents are aware of, and understand, the value of the skills they are developing?

• How are you providing opportunities for children to reflect on the skills identified and plan for next steps in their learning?

• In what ways are you involving employers, parents, your Parent Council, and other partners in the development of enterprise and employability skills and attitudes in our children?

• How have employer partnerships made a positive impact on the children, staff (school and employer staff) and the community as a whole?

Nominations for the 2012 Scottish Education Awards are now closed.