Essential skills are those highly transferable skills that everyone needs to do almost any job, which make knowledge and technical skills fully productive.
Skills Builder have defined the 8 essential skills as:
- Listening
- Speaking
- Problem Solving
- Creativity
- Staying Positive
- Aiming High
- Leadership
- Teamwork
Each essential skill has been broken down into 4 stages:
- Getting started
- Stages 0 - 5
- Intermediate
- Stages 6 - 8
- Advanced
- Stages 9 - 10
- Mastery
- Stages 11 - 15
We will be teaching the children these essential skills explicitly, on a Wednesday afternoon, on a rolling 3-week programme.
So far, the children have been learning about...