Character Education Scotland News
David Lorimer writes: I attended a very interesting summit run by the Golf Foundation on their work connected with skills for life. The delegates were partly from education but also included PGA professionals. Of special interest to us was the discussion of ways of mapping personal qualities and values. The current Golf Roots skills for life programme focuses on honesty, respect, cooperation, self motivation, concentration and perseverance. There was general agreement that resilience was an important factor not yet highlighted. So far as sport is concerned, skills might be classified under the three headings of social, self-regulatory and competitive. There was considerable discussion about putting any new programmes into the Every Child Matters agenda, and I pointed out that here in Scotland it is the Curriculum for Excellence which is central, with its four capacities. The Foundation will now be rethinking its offering over the next few weeks. See http://www.golf-foundation.org/
