Characteristics and Priority Skills
At Musselburgh Grammar School the characteristics we would like to develop in our staff and young people centre on our values of honesty, determination and respect. We are at the beginning of a journey in creating a skills framework linked to our school values. To support this we have partnered with SDS to utilise their Meta-Skills tool-kit to enhance our focus on skills development across our curriculum.
The aim: to embed the meta-skills framework across Musselburgh Grammar School next session, with clear links to our school values.
An example of how we intend to link our MGS school values to SDS' Meta-Skills Framework
Honesty
Communicating: The ability to openly and honestly share information in a way that creates mutual understanding about others’ thoughts, intentions and ideas
Adapting: The ability and interest to continue to enlarge knowledge, understanding and skills in order to remain adaptive and resilient as circumstances change
Integrity: Acting in an honest and consistent manner based on a strong sense of self and personal values
Determination
Focussing: The ability to manage cognitive load by filtering and sorting information in order to maintain a sense of focus in an age of information overload and constant change
Curiosity: The desire to know or learn something in order to inspire new ideas and concepts
Initiative: Readiness to get started and act on opportunities built on a foundation of self belief
Respect
Feeling: Considering impact on other people by being able to take a range of different thoughts, feelings and perspectives into account
Collaborating: The ability to work in coordination with others to convey information and tackle problems
Leading: The ability to lead others by inspiring them with a clear vision and motivating them to realise this