Meta-skills Progression Framework

Meta-skills are innate, timeless, higher-order skills that create adaptive learners and promote success in whatever context the future brings. From birth, children use their meta-skills as they test and explore the world around them, and it is these meta-skills that act as a key to unlock the development of other transferable and technical skills. Therefore, it is important that as children and young people progress through their education, practitioners make meta-skills explicitly visible and create opportunities for learners to recognise, understand and explore their meta-skills development.

The Skills Development Scotland meta-skills progression framework has been developed in collaboration with partners and practitioners from across Scotland and aims to help with identifying and understanding what meta-skills look like in the classroom. The framework builds on the ‘Skills 4.0 – A Skills Model to Drive Scotland’s Future’ paper and illustrates examples of meta-skills across Curriculum for Excellence levels, from early years through to senior phase.

Every fortnight we will be introducing a new skill in assembly and then following this up in classes. Each skill is introduced through a character- each group of characters belonging to a different ‘house’.

Our achievements in assembly will now focus meta-skills and how the pupils are displaying these throughout the week. These will then be shared with parents through SeeSaw.

For more information on Meta-skills please follow the link: