The Confidence to Succeed

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The Confidence to Succeed

• welcome

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funding from the Scottish Executive

• approx 1million over three years to Aberdeen
• to develop Enterprise in Education in schools
• plan submitted to Scottish Executive
• plan written in the spirit of enterprise
• Neighbourhoods, ASGs and schools to be fully
  involved in deciding how the money will
  specifically be spent

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why the funding is being provided

• national priority Learning for Life
• To equip pupils with the foundation skills,
  attitudes and expectations necessary to prosper
  in a changing society and to encourage creativity
  and ambition.

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why the funding is being provided

• national priority Values and Citizenship
• To work with parents to teach pupils respect
  for self and one another and their
  interdependence with other members of their
  neighbourhood and society and to teach them the
  duties and responsibilities of citizenship in a
  democratic society

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what Aberdeen City has done so far

• enterprise activities in partnership
• Careers Scotland
• Scottish Enterprise
• Businesses
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what Aberdeen City has done so far

• Enterprising Infants
• Go for Enterprise
• Up for Enterprise
• Get into Enterprise
• Make it in Scotland
• Excellence in Education Through Business Links
  (EEBL)
• Young Enterprise
• work experience
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what Aberdeen City has done so far
other activities concerned with developing
responsibility, enterprise and creativity

• peer support, student forums, student councils
  Quality Awards, Healthy Schools, RM Centre of
  Excellence, Innovative Education Award, VSA
  Schools Charity Fundraising Award, Primary
  Schools Enterprise Challenge, Secondary
  Enterprise Challenge, Kids in Condition, Keep
  Northfield Clean initiative, Eco-schools
  Programme, cultural activities

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what Aberdeen City has done so far

• sporting activities, UK Rock Challenge, Duke of
  Edinburgh Award, Princes Trust xl Clubs,
  Participation in Young Agenda 21, Presentations
  to MSPs, Comenius (European Education) Project,
  Engineers Group, Neighbourhood Engineers,
  mini-enterprises, company links with schools, the
  Business Game, Technology is the Business, Women
  into Science, Impact presentations, Mile-End
  Journal, etc etc etc

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Enterprise in Education in Aberdeen

• it will include all our young people (all
  sectors) according to their needs

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Enterprise in Education in Aberdeen

• underpinning theme
• development of core skills
• enabling young people to be and to become
• responsible
• proactive
• as learners, citizens, employers, employees,
  entrepreneurs, parents, partners, etc.

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Enterprise in Education in Aberdeen

• based around active, experiential activities
  which involve assisting students to take
  responsibility
• for themselves
• for developing projects
• for developing attitudes, dispositions and skills

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Aims of eie in Aberdeen

• building confidence
• encouraging participation and celebrating
  achievement
• promotion of generic (core) skills such as
  numeracy, literacy, communication,
  decision-making, problem-solving, creativity and
  ICT

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Aims of eie in Aberdeen

• developing enterprising attitudes and skills
  across all areas of the curriculum
• development of the Youth Achievement Award scheme
  building on existing good practice in the city
• experiencing and developing an understanding of
  the opportunities presented by the world of work
  and ways of using these opportunities

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Aims of eie in Aberdeen

• experiencing and participating in entrepreneurial
  activities and developing entrepreneurial skills
• participating in social enterprise and
  citizenship
• real participation, where participation really
  matters and where their success can make a
  difference

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Aims of eie in Aberdeen

• active and experiential learning opportunities
  associated with accepting responsibility and
  managing risk
• understanding of self-employment and its
  relationship to entrepreneurial attitudes and
  skills
• career education which includes a focus on
  enterprise
• developing a culture of lifelong learning

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what Aberdeen City plans to do

• model the process of enterprise in the way in
  which this initiative is developed
• consultative framework which will allow schools
  to be enterprising organizations, modeling the
  process for our young people.

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what Aberdeen City plans to do

• encourage development of the three-year plan
  through a process of partnership working among
• schools
• ASGs
• Neighbourhood teams
• Learning Leisure Service
• partner organizations

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what Aberdeen City plans to do

• Development Officer (Enterprise in Education) to
  coordinate
• further development of enterprising activities
• in all areas of the curriculum
• for all school students
• a challenge fund, totalling 150k, to encourage
  innovation, responsibility and creativity

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what Aberdeen City plans to do

• city-wide enterprise activities in schools
• opportunities for vocational learning linked to
  relevant qualifications
• development of a strategy for engaging young
  people, parents/carers and the business community
• involvement of every school in a partnership
  agreement with business or other relevant
  organisation

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what Aberdeen City plans to do

• review and evaluation of work experience
• involving school students
• including part-time work done in students own
  time
• possible alternative structures
• extension of content of work experience
• accreditation and involvement in award schemes

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what Aberdeen City plans to do

• use of business case studies in S5/S6
• CPD opportunities
• strategies to engage young people who have
  otherwise been difficult to engage, including
  possible alternative provision consistent with
  curriculum flexibility

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first steps

• initial allocation of funding
• 400 to each school
• to fund projects that are either ongoing or can
  start up in the immediate future

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first steps

• conditions
• it must contribute to developing an enterprise
  activity in the school
• school students must be actively involved in
  decisions about how it should be spent
• the number of students involved in Education for
  Enterprise in the school must be significantly
  increased as a direct result

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first steps

• short case study report (summer term)
• how the money has been/is being used
• how students were involved in decisions
• how the money has assisted in significantly
  increasing the number of students involved in
  Enterprise in Education together with evidence
• The case studies will be published later

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first steps

• Development Officer(Enterprise in Education)
• appointment March 2004

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Corporate Director (Learning Leisure)
John
Head of Service - School Planning, Improvement
QA (SPIQA)
Alex
Community Learning and Development Manager
Adviser (Guidance and Careers)
Pete
Terry
Development Officer (Enterprise in Education)
Aberdeen City Council (including Neighbourhood
teams, Learning Leisure and Community Learning
and Development)
FE/HE
Enterprise in Education Steering Group
local industry
Careers Scotland
other relevant organisations
North-East Scotland Economic Forum
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targets

• recommendations in Determined to Succeed to
  feature various plans for Aberdeen City, eg
• Community Plan
• Education Improvement Plan
• School Development Plans
• school development plans to encompass a broad
  view of the meaning of enterprise in all areas of
  the curriculum

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targets

• all school students will be involved in at least
  one enterprise activity during each school
  session
• all school students from S3 onwards will have the
  opportunity for vocational learning linked to
  relevant qualifications

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targets

• strategy to engage young people, parents/carers
  and the business community (including developing
  awareness and commitment
• strategic partnerships with representatives from
  business, Careers Scotland and other organizations

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targets

• each school to be involved in a partnership
  agreement with business or other organisation
• school students to be involved in a review and
  evaluation of work experience
• secondary schools to develop the use of business
  case studies in S5/S6

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targets

• CPD opportunities in Enterprise in Education to
  be further developed
• monitoring and evaluation of the development of
  Enterprise in Education in our schools using
  appropriate indicators
• strategies designed to engage in enterprise
  activities those young people who have otherwise
  been difficult to engage (ACC inclusion policy)

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Corporate Director (Learning Leisure)
Head of Service - School Planning, Improvement
QA (SPIQA)
Community Learning and Development Manager
Adviser (Guidance and Careers)
Development Officer (Enterprise in Education)
Aberdeen City Council (including Neighbourhood
teams, Learning Leisure and Community Learning
and Development)
FE/HE
Enterprise in Education Steering Group
local industry
Careers Scotland
other relevant organisations
North-East Scotland Economic Forum
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more information

• Aberdeen Guidance/PSE
• and Education for Enterprise
• on the internet at
• www.aberdeen-education.org.uk/guidance

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