This is the page for parents and carers of students undertaking Business Education and Computing Science subjects.
26/08/2020
🕹 NPA Computer Games Development course 🕹
Do you have old video games?
Do you have old consoles?
Do you have old controllers?
If you are looking to declutter then Mr Douglas and Mrs Grivell would love to get any donations as these would help with this new course we are delivering for S4-S6 students.
If you have any donations then you can hand these into the school for the attention of Mr Douglas. Much apprecaited.
08/06/2020
ℹ️ Lockdown Learners ℹ️
Well done to all students who are completing their work. For those that are producing some extra special work/going above and beyond then we will be issuing a 'Congratulations - you are a Lockdown Learner' certificate. Ideal to 'stick on the fridge' or your bedroom wall... 😁
We will email parents/tag students on MS Teams if they receive a certificate.
🤩 Congratulations🤩
On 3 April we had our "Just A Bit Of Fun On A Friday" quiz for S1 and S2 Business and Computing students.
Well done to Ramsay Thomson (S1) and Ewan Colvin (S2) who were the two winners. Each receive a £10 Amazon voucher.
More exciting action being planned....
02/04/2020
S1 and S2 Parents/Carers
Read, Watch and Share.....
Just A Bit Of Fun On A Friday S1 and S2 students - Friday Competition.
16/03/2020
All Parents - Subject Updates
All year groups/classes have work set up on the Microsoft Teams platform. Your child is already set up and has work assigned either as a task or in the case of S4-6 students, access to resource for revision.
Your child can sign in to access work from 'home'.
See picture for screenshot of how to access.
This applies to the following subjects:
✔️ S1 Business, S2 Business
✔️ S1 Computing, S2 Computing
✔️ S3 Computing, S3 Admin and IT, S3 Business Management
✔️ N5 Computing, N5 Business Management
✔️ Higher Administration and IT
✔️ Higher Business Management
✔️ N5 Parents - Computing Science
Your child has started their formal 'assignment' in class. This contributes towards their final mark. It is completed in class under exam conditions. Mr Easton has sent an email to all parents with an overview of the conditions and some advice.
✔️ S1 Parents - Business Education
All classes have started their 3rd unit, 'May Contain Losses'. All students are going to research information on snack bars with a view to creating the concept for their own bar.
Where possible, have a discussion on what makes for a good bar and how important or otherwise the packaging is.....
✔️ Higher/N5 Parents - Business Management
Your child has started their formal 'assignment' in class. This contributes 25% of their final mark. It is completed in class under exam conditions. Mr Easton has sent an email to all parents with an overview of the conditions and some advice.
✔️ S2 Business/S2 Computing news
S2 Business - Well done to all students who have successfully completed their presentation on their chosen entrepreneur
S2 Computing - All students have been learning how to create website and there have been some good examples on display.
06/11/2019
🎙Parents of Higher Business Management students 🎙
All students have been given access to Microsoft Teams, which is a platform to share resources and offer advice.
Please encourage your child to log on at - office365.edin.org Sign in with username and password. Username email format is [email protected]
See image below which shows you what to expect when logged in.
🎙 S1 Parents - Business Education 🎙
Your child has recently finished their first unit on Word Processing and will soon start a unit on Presentation Software.
🎙 S2 Parents - Business Education 🎙
Your child is about to start the second unit called 'Business Management' which introduces concepts such as Goods and Services and Entrepreneurs. Maybe suggest they watch a few minutes or a whole episode of The Apprentice - it's arguably better entertainment than FIFA or SnapChat....
08/10/2019
🗣 S2 Parents 🗣
Your child will be sitting their Financial Education assessment wb 7 October or wb 21 October.
To help and stimulate some discussion then search out the RBS Moneysense website.
Understanding payment cards | Students | MoneySense What’s the difference between a debit card and a credit card? Where can you use a gift card? Find out the answers to these questions and more.
23/09/2019
Parents of Higher/N5 Business Management
🗣 Thomas Cook news
Please have a discussion about this as it relates to topics such as internal factors, external factors and stakeholders.
What went wrong at Thomas Cook? The travel giant failed to raise money to secure its future after three profit warnings in a year.
