Careers and Jobs Event at Dalkeith High School

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Clara Heggie for 150 students at Dalkeith High School aged Age 14 - 14.

Event description

The benefits of a language in the world of work

The Modern Languages department at Dalkeith High School is looking for employers to present a 15 minute workshop (on a rotational basis, so the same workshop would be repeated to 5 or 6 different groups of around 25-30 pupils) to our current S3 on the importance of languages in regard to your profession. We will try and build in one 15 minute break as we understand this could be intense! We understand that speaking another language is not essential for your profession, however would love it if you could highlight how the skills such as: better communication, maths skills, heightened logic, better memory, cultural awareness, easier travel (amongst many others!), that are acquired when learning another language would be extremely beneficial in your workplace. We hope that workshops would be more interactive seeing as the pupils will be sitting through another five or six of these throughout the morning. The fact that you are a 'new' face will be more than enough to entertain them, it's totally up to you what you do with your slot, whether this be a more interactive quiz, a presentation or even just a chat with them! We have PCs linked up to a projector in each room and the pupils also have their own chromebooks if this is something you would like to use. We really hope this is something you would like to help us with- if interested please just reply to me via email at: c.heggie@midlothian.education
Any help you could give us would be greatly appreciated!