Core competencies

Core competencies

1. Communicative

   • Linguistic and audiovisual
     • f) To develop basic linguistic competencies in both Catalan, Spanish and, if applicable, in Aranese, in order to be able to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
     • g) To value reading, and the reading habit, as a basic activity to achieve personal goals and participate in the reading time proposed by the centre within the teaching hours.
     • h) To acquire basic communicative competency in at least one foreign language to enable them to express and understand simple messages and get by in everyday situations.
   • Artistic & cultural
     • k) To use different representations and artistic expressions and to begin in the construction of visual proposals

2. Methodological

   • Digital
     • l) To develop digital skills for the construction and expression of age-appropriate learnings.
   • Mathematical
     • i) To develop basic mathematical competencies and to begin to solve problems which require elemental arithmetical operations, geometry and calculations and to be able to apply them to situations from their daily lives.
   • Learning to learn
     • p) To apply, in diverse contexts, the different acquired knowledge and their own resources, in order to solve in a creative way problems, personal situations and needs of everyday life.

3. Personal

   • Autonomy, personal initiative and entrepreneurship
     • b) To be aware of the value of individual and collective work and develop habits of effort and work in the study, as well as attitudes of confidence, with personal initiative and entrepreneurship, self-discipline, critical sense, responsibility, curiosity, interest, pleasure to learn and creativity in learning.
     • e) To acquire personal autonomy and develop a positive and balanced image of oneself to promote equal rights and opportunities between men and women and the non-discrimination of people with disabilities; defend the application of human rights in all areas of personal and social life, without any discrimination based on birth, race, sex, opinion or any other condition or personal or social circumstance.

4. Social and civic

   • Knowledge of and interaction with the natural world
     • j) To understand, to value and to estimate the natural, social and cultural environment, thus reinforcing the feeling of belonging to the country and the ability to extrapolate this knowledge to other settings and to the world in general; to understand, from the observation of facts and simple phenomena, the main mechanisms that govern this environment in order to be able to take responsible commitments to maintain or introduce elements of improvement.
     • n) To know the importance of hygiene and health, accepting one's own body and others, respecting differences and using physical education to promote personal and social development.
   • Social and civic
     • a) To know and appreciate the values and norms of co-existence, learn to behave accordingly, prepare for active citizenship and respect human rights and the pluralism of a democratic society.
     • c) To acquire skills to maintain and improve the climate of coexistence and to prevent and manage conflicts in a positive way, both in the family as well as in the school and social environment.
     • d) To respect the right to difference of people and critically debate the cultural and religious differences from an intercultural perspective.
     • m) To develop emotional capacities in all areas of personality and in the way of relating to others, and those that promote gender equality, as well as an attitude contrary to violence and prejudices of any kind.
     • o) To acquire the basic knowledge of proper road education and attitudes of respect that favours the prevention of traffic accidents.