Wider Achievement Opportunities
It is our aim to ensure that all pupils are able to properly articulate the skills for learning, life and work that they have developed not only in the curriculum, but also from their wider achievements. The Larbert High School Skills Framework has been designed with our pupils at the centre and will provide the foundations for our pupils to understand what skills are, ways they can develop them, and most importantly how to articulate those skills to gain entry to a positive destination.
In recognition of this and information from the Scottish Employers Skills Survey, we have put together a Skills Framework that properly reflects the needs of our pupils, parents, staff and wider community. The broad headings, under which there are more detailed skill sets, are based on the Falkirk Council Skills Framework, but have been amended to reflect the inner workings of Larbert High School. These are: Digital Learning, Enterprise, Leadership, Literacy, MESP (Mental, Emotional, Social & Physical), Numeracy and Thinking.
A Wider Achievement Opportunity (WAO) will allow pupils to focus on the development of skills from our Skills Framework. Every WAO has a primary skill and a secondary skill which will be the focus of the work throughout the academic year. Pupils will assess themselves in these skills at the beginning of the year and then learn strategies to develop these skills, regularly reflecting on the development of these skills and opportunities to apply them to other contexts both in and outwith school. WAOs in the Senior Phase are accredited and details about the accreditation can be found in the WAO descriptors.