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Children win top business award

An Aberdeen nursery has won a prestigious award for its outstanding achievement in raising awareness of business enterprise among its children. Woodside Nursery was honoured in the Scottish Executive's Determined to Succeed: National Enterprise in Education Awards. Staff at the 60-place nursery based at Woodside Primary School set up an Enterprise Week where children took part in a range of play activities designed to raise their awareness of concepts such as enterprise, advertising, money and teamwork.

Woodside Nursery was honoured in the Scottish Executive's Determined to Succeed: National Enterprise in Education Awards. Staff at the 60-place nursery based at Woodside Primary School set up an Enterprise Week where children took part in a range of play activities designed to raise their awareness of concepts such as enterprise, advertising, money and teamwork.

The project's aim was to improve facilities in the nursery's garden by raising funds through a raffle. To attract donations for the raffle, the children visited other classes to promote the project and also learned how to deal with money via the sale of raffle tickets.

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