Dunoon Grammar School top of the class
Dunoon Grammar has been crowned the UK’s European Entrepreneurial School of the Year at a prestigious ceremony in Helsinki.
The European Entrepreneurial School Awards recognise outstanding schools that are championing entrepreneurship in education across Europe.
Schools are judged on how they involve staff and pupils in initiatives, the priority they give enterprise in strategic plans and the extent to which they include their community and business sector on entrepreneurial activity.
Dunoon Grammar was nominated for the award by Young Enterprise Scotland and is the first UK school to make the shortlist since the awards began in 2015.
Dunoon pupils and staff have flourished on a range of enterprise activities over the last couple of years and have won a variety of national awards and recognition for their creative flair and enterprising spirits from a number of national bodies.
Paul Gallanagh, Principal Teacher of Business and Computing, said: ‘More than 650 pupils from Dunoon Grammar School have been key players in this success through their creativity, drive and enterprising skills and spirit. Curriculum for Excellence has been instrumental in sparking this success. It was a real invite to innovate and empowered us to work in partnership with a range of local and national partners on a diverse range of pioneering initiatives.
‘Our young people have flourished working on these hands-on enterprise experiences, scooping many awards in the process, and I would like to thank our partners for including our pupils in these initiatives.’