Curriculum for Excellence - HMIE/LTS Good Practice Conferences
Jane St John, Carluke High School, South Lanarkshire Council
I’ve been running the Ramsay Challenge for fifteen years and it started off as part of the design and make process for five to fourteen. It now links in very well with the Curriculum for Excellence. It’s a product development competition where all children develop a product for Ramsays of Carluke. All second year pupils are involved and they work in teams of two to develop a new sausage idea for Ramsays. They then also have to produce a serving suggestion for this and each class has a competition. The winners of this go forward to the S2 Ramsay Challenge competition, which is judged by Andrew Ramsay and five other judges.
Rachel Dyas, Carluke High School, South Lanarkshire Council
I started off doing the Ramsay Challenge in my second year and from experiences there, I chose to do on and do it as a standard grade. The work . . . I was quite successful in that and I chose to progress one again up to the higher to do the technological project there, which is quite similar to the Ramsay Challenge in your second year. And there, I was successful there again. I got an A and I chose to do advanced higher this year, which I’m studying at the moment and as I’m going on to university next year, I’m applying for a course at Abertay to do food, nutrition and health myself, to progress onto be a home economics teacher myself, hopefully. And you can see the natural progression where it’s all stemmed from the Ramsay Challenge in my second year to move me right up through at the school.
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