The girls (and I!) had a great day visiting the Baillie Gifford office in Edinburgh, meeting their mentor for Future Asset and hearing from industry experts!

⭐️ Good luck to our amazing National 5 and Higher Business Management pupils sitting their SQA exam tomorrow John Paul Academy. Reminder that the exams take place at the following times: ✍️Higher BM: 9am-11.45am 📝 National 5 BM: 1pm-3pm Final advice ⬇️

⭐️Good luck to our brilliant S3 pupils sitting exams in Business Management and Administration and IT this week. You will be great JPA Business Education John Paul Academy!

Higher Business Management pupils have been looking at different structures that can be found within businesses. Pupils produced some very impressive models and provided great detail of the costs and benefits of their selected structure! JPA Business Education

👏🏻 An organisational structure is how a business organises its staff to represent the different layers of management. Our HBM class used spaghetti and marshmallows to build their org structures this morning before discussing costs/benefits. Well done John Paul Academy JPA Business Education

Higher Business Management completing blind taste testing for branded and non branded products. This opened up discussion about each sample allowing pupils to focus purely on taste, smell and texture of products, to make an unbiased judgement. JPA Business Education John Paul Academy

🎯Delighted to announce John Paul Academy have signed up to the START programme! START is a new interdisciplinary learning programme for Scottish schools that replicates the experience of a startup incubator. S6 visited Morgan Stanley on Friday to participate in design workshops.

🔢 Great week in our Higher Accounting class John Paul Academy as we had Eryn join us from KPMG. Eryn discussed the benefits of studying accountancy and the career opportunities it presents for our pupils.

📽️We are delighted to confirm the final details for our S2 Trip to the Sky Academy Studios on Thursday 14 November John Paul Academy. -Consent forms must be returned by end of the day -Full school uniform must be worn -Leaving JPA at 8.45am and returning at 12.15pm

🎥 Our S2 pupils John Paul Academy had a great morning at the Sky Academy. Each group worked in different studios to create a news report on the impact of technology on business. Outstanding work! Mr McAloon Miss Totty Miss Eadie

Higher Business Management this morning using retrieval practice for the External Factors topic, focussing on impacts for each factor. Excellent work produced by all. Well done! JPA Business Education John Paul Academy

💫Excellent work from our Higher Business Management pupils Miss Totty. Supported Study will restart next week - every Monday/Thursday for N5/H Business pupils. 97 days until the final exam John Paul Academy !

Buzzin Des Hamilton Casting 👏🏻 Local youngsters get involved!! #TheYoungTeam

An amazing day for our school community coming together for the ‘McMullan March’ 💛 Thank you to Mrs Ross and our Senior Leadership class for organising this event for such a brilliant cause Beatson Cancer Charity John Paul Academy

🎥 Our S2 pupils John Paul Academy had a great afternoon at the Sky Academy. Each group worked in different studios to create a news report on the impact of technology in business. Outstanding work! Preview below ⬇️

🚶LONDON | We started the morning with the Thames Sightseeing Cruise to see famous landmarks such as the London Eye, St Paul’s Cathedral and Tower Bridge. We then finished our walking tour through the Financial District. Great start John Paul Academy 👏

LONDON | We finished our walking tour for the day by stopping off at Westminster to see Big Ben. We then visited the Musuem of Brands for a nostalgic journey through 200 years of social change, culture and lifestyle. Amazing day so far John Paul Academy 👏

LONDON | Great morning so far as we explored London before arriving at the National History Museum. We are on our way to our final stop at Chelsea FC for the stadium tour and business workshop John Paul Academy 👏

LONDON | We loved the Business of Football Tour Chelsea FC. Pupils participated in a workshop with a focus on merchandise, marketing, finance and staffing. The Business Education staff also enjoyed it John Paul Academy Mr McAloon Miss Totty @misssmeharry

LONDON | Our fantastic live tour through Stamford Bridge was a memorable 60 minute experience visiting the Dressing Rooms, Press Room, Player's Tunnel, Pitchside and much more. We then enjoyed a quick McDonald’s before boarding the train. Due back John Paul Academy for 11.45pm!