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MEETINGS

Aberdeen Steering Group agendas and minutes

LINKS

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"An enterprising classroom is one in which children feel valued and part of a team - engaged in an interesting and motivating challenge."

Kate Dennis, Quarryhill School: winning entry in the Enterprise in Education competition organised by Northfield Academy students at the curriculum conference, 2005

NEWS

Our May 2009 questionnaire for schools - to be returned by 8 June please

details and download here

DETERMINED TO SUCCEED: POLICY EXPECTATIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITY DELIVERY 2008-2011. This is Scottish Government's statement of priorities for Determined to Succeed. You can download a copy of this document from here >>

ST PETERS SCHOOL PUPILS REPRESENT SCOTLAND AT ACTIVE KIDS GET COOKING CHALLENGE 2008

St Peter's P4 pupils have won the Scottish Primary school section of the Active Kids Get Cooking Challenge 2008 which is run by Sainsbury's and judged by British Nutrition Foundation. More details >>

ENTERPRISE IN WESTERTON SCHOOL
Two very interesting activities Details >>

ABERDEEN COMPANY DRIVES PUPILS' CAREER AMBITIONS

A Hazlehead Academy pupil celebrated after being offered a four-year apprenticeship with a leading city motor company.

Manor Oak Honda gave Sam Mitchell the opportunity to become a vehicle technician through Honda’s official apprenticeship programme after he excelled during a recent work placement. More details >>

PROBATIONER CPD DAY 7 FEBRUARY 2008

At the Probationer Day which focused on Enterprise, a group of P6 pupils from Holy Family RC Primary gave a presentation which covered some of the Enterprise activities they had organised within school. Also at the event were children from our P4/5 class who demonstrated activities from the Apodo resource, with these pupils then leading Probationers in group tasks. More details>>

Marlpool School students with Paul Lawrie MBE at the launch of their newspaper the Marlpool Express

ABERDEEN EVENTS

JUNIOR ENTERPRISE GAME 2008-2009
TOP 10 TEAMS

The seventh year of the Junior Enterprise Game has just finished the fourth term. This has been a record breaking year because a total of 45 schools consisting of 67 classes, 395 teams involving 1,707 pupils participated in the game.

This year's winners: Heathryburn School

After the fourth term the top 10 teams are as follows:

Position	Team Name	School	Share Price
1	PHANTASTIC POLOS	HEATHRYBURN	538p
2	AL RIKE	STONEYWOOD	512p
3	MCLWC SHIRTS	QUARRYHILL	510p
4	PIGGY POLOS	WALKER ROAD	509p
5	PENGUIN T-SHIRTS	CORNHILL	504p
6	POLO EXPRESS	DYCE	488p
7	RAW ‘BS’ SPORTSHIRTS	SKENE SQUARE	487p
8	FUNKY SHARKO POLOS	KAIMHILL	484p
9	SKITTLE SHIRTS	NEWHILLS	480p
10	LITTLE ENTERPRISE	FERNIELEA	479P

The top 6 teams contested the grand final during the fourth week in June. The final results are as follows:

POSITION	SCHOOL	SHARE PRICE
	HEATHRYBURN PRIMARY	465p
	DYCE PRIMARY	437p
	QUARRYHILL PRIMARY	424p
	STONEYWOOD PRIMARY	409p
	CORNHILL PRIMARY	400p
	WALKER ROAD PRIMARY	366p

The presentation of prizes were held on Tuesday 30 June 2009 at 11 am at Summerhill Centre. Duncan McArthur (Learning Strategist for Learning) and Martin Quinn (North East Rig-Out Ltd) presented the prizes to the winning teams.

More details about the Junior Enterprise Game>>

website maintained by Terry Ashton, Adviser (Guidance and Careers)

This page was last updated on 30 June 2009 21:07 +0100