Tourism & leisure

Tourism is important to the development of Clyde Waterfront. The waterfront is a place people will want to visit from near and far. New attractions such as the Titan Crane at Clydebank which opened in 2007 and Riverside Museum which is under construction will add to existing venues such as the Glasgow Science Centre. Xscape already provides a huge range of leisure facilities in one complex at Renfrew Riverside. New eating places and hotels are planned to accommodate the growing number of visitors. Riverfront walkways are being created and improved to make the waterfront a more attractive place to walk and cycle. A seaplane service provides tourists with an exciting way to explore Scotland and connects the city centre with the highlands and islands.

With Glasgow growing in popularity as an international tourist destination, this theme includes marketing Glasgow as a tourist destination and developing translation skills in order to communicate successfully in different settings.

Lesson/project ideas (search all lesson/project ideas)

Title	Short description	Related curricular areas	Age group
Clyde Waterfront celebrates	Plan a corporate event for the Clyde Waterfront board to celebrate the development and success of the Clyde waterfront regeneration.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Technologies	Upper Primary, Lower Secondary
Clyde-inspired flag design	By using k/u of 2D design processes and taking inspiration from the Clyde waterfront pupils will produce a festival flag design which will be judged by a local festival organiser; flag designer or manufacturer; local authority personnel (culture/leisure/arts).	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Clyde-opoly	Enterprising approach to computer aided graphics, manual graphics for display, applying knowledge and understanding of layout, lettering, creating and editing images to produce a game board & packaging.	Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Craft design on a tourism theme	Applying learning about plastics to design and make a plastic artefact based on a tourism theme.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Science, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Create an advertising leaflet for local community amenities	Applying skills in desk top publishing/computer aided graphics to create a leaflet advertising local amenities to the local community.	Science, Social Studies, Technologies	Upper Secondary
Creating a tourist leaflet for Glasgow	Pupils will use their language, presentation, art, ICT and social skills to create a tourist leaflet in a foreign language.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Creation of a mini phrase book	Using all their knowledge and language structures gained in the tourism section, the pupils will create a phrase book for foreign visitors.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Design a waterfront logo	Produce a CW logo, using k/u of 2D graphic design that will be judged for use on tourist merchandise.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Development of Glasgow – tourism leaflet	Project in travel and tourism to design a tourism information leaflet.	Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Gift bag printing inspired by the Clyde	By using k/u of 2D design processes and taking inspiration from the Clyde waterfront, pupils will design and create a ‘waterfront gift bag’ which will be presented to a panel of tourism business, local designer and tourist board.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies	Lower Secondary
Glasgow tourism marketing challenge	Pupils work in groups to design and present a campaign to attract visitors and tourists to Glasgow with a focus on the Clyde waterfront.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Guided visit of Glasgow	The pupils welcome foreign visitors and provide a guided visit of Glasgow in the foreign language	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Holidays, then and now	Pupils will work in teams to plan a holiday ‘Doon the Watter’ around 1908 and contrast that by creating a marketing campaign for one in 2008.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Upper Primary
ICT advertising leaflet	Using ICT – Microsoft Publisher and applying research skills to create an advertising leaflet using an enterprising approach.	Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Leisure fact file	Produce a fact file on local area leisure facilities for use by other pupils and their families using an enterprising approach in the project.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Technologies	Upper Primary
Making a radio advert	Creating radio adverts to promote tourist attractions on the Clyde waterfront by creating an advertising spiel and producing a jingle.	Languages, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Mapping the view from the Glasgow Tower	Using knowledge on ‘bearings’ to map out the landmarks viewed from the Glasgow Tower and design a leaflet for tourists.	Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Marketing tourism advert	Apply knowledge and understanding gained in school to market the attractions around the Clyde in a project to create an advertisement using video equipment.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies	Upper Primary
Promoting waterfront tourism and leisure attractions	Create a day-out itinerary of the Clyde waterfront area which would appeal to young visitors/residents, including cost and travel plans for local tourism and leisure facilities.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Upper Primary
Tourism - quality services	Pupils act as market research team and organise to participate in an open top bus tour to assess the quality of the product and feedback their findings to the company (agreed brief with company).	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies	Lower Secondary
Tourism on the River Clyde - 19thc. to today	Applying knowledge of tourism and leisure on the Clyde since 19th century to present day through project based learning involving model making and marketing campaigns.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Translating menus for restaurants	Pupils use their language skills to translate authentic menus into a foreign language and work with local businesses.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Religious and Moral Education, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Translation for business	Pupils use their language skills and previous knowledge from the tourism project to translate relevant documentation for hotels.	Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Understanding ‘Glaswegian’	A light-hearted booklet on Glaswegian phrases produced by pupils for a visitors coming into the area.	Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Visiting Glasgow as a tourist	Pupils will research and design public transport information leaflets and charts for tourists visiting the city of Glasgow using skills learned in maths.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary