Govan High School

Nuts and Bolts

Govan High School

What? An entirely skills-based curriculum

Involving young people in identification and awareness of skills

Covers all learning areas – in school or elsewhere

Highlighting developments in skills and connections across learning

Recording skills centrally on the Achievement Database

Govan High School

How? Looking at how young people have done something – not just what they did

By tasks, questioning, reviewing, assessment, links between subjects and between subjects and the ultra curriculum

By using a common vocabulary

By matching previous / other skills sets with the Future Skills

By recognising that everyone is a unique combination of skills BUT that many people have not had opportunities to discover or use the skills they have.

Govan High School

Why? Lifelong learning

Relevance (to pupils, to national precepts, to employers’ needs, etc)

Motivation

Self esteem, self awareness and self confidence

Stimulates reflective abilities and critical faculties

Govan High School

Why? Employability

Enshrines principles of CfE and SfS

Strong connections to employers’ agenda

Truly comprehensive approach

Skills development awareness

Skills gaps awareness

Govan High School

What with?

Future skills list

Skills assessment booklets

Skills awards cards

Achievement database

Universality of approach