At Cury School, we recognise the importance of embedding skills that translate to all areas of our pupil’s lives, and it has never been more important to build a set of essential skills to succeed for our young people.

The ability to creatively solve problems, self-manage, communicate effectively, and work well with others are imperative to the success we see in our classrooms starting at KS1 all the way through to the end of KS2 and ultimately preparing our pupils for life after Cury.

The Skills Builder Framework defines the essential skills as: Listening, Speaking, Problem-Solving, Creativity, Staying Positive, Aiming High, Leadership and Teamwork.

Essential skills unlock learning in the classroom, boosting academic outcomes, perseverance and self belief. They halve the likelihood of being out of work, and increase earnings across a lifetime. They even boost wellbeing and life satisfaction.

But access to these skills isn’t fair. And where they are missed, it undermines social mobility, productivity and wellbeing. We think everyone, at every stage of their lives, should have the opportunities to build them.

We prioritise building these skills into our curriculum to ensure they are threaded into all areas of learning at Cury. Much of our wider enrichment offer at Cury, such as project time, enterprise and life-skills lessons, will have a key focus around the strands of  Skills Builder.