Primary Education Goals: Core Skills for Student Development

Article 17: Aims of Primary Education

Primary education helps to develop in children the skills that enable them to:

• A) Know and appreciate the values and standards of living, learn according to them, prepare for active citizenship, and respect human rights.
• B) Develop habits of individual and team work, effort, and responsibility in study, as well as attitudes of self-confidence, critical thinking, personal initiative, and creativity in learning.
• C) Acquire skills for prevention and peaceful conflict resolution, allowing them to operate with autonomy in the family and social groups to which they relate.
• D) Know, understand, and respect different cultures and the differences between people, equal rights and opportunities for men and women, and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities.
• E) Know and properly use the Castilian language and, if applicable, the other official language of the Autonomous Region, and develop reading habits.
• F) Acquire basic communicative competence in at least one foreign language to enable them to express and understand simple messages and deal with everyday situations.
• G) Develop basic mathematics skills and acquire problem-solving abilities requiring the completion of elementary calculation operations.
• H) Know and value their natural, social, and cultural environment, as well as the possibilities for action and care related to it.
• I) Be introduced to the use of information and communication technologies for learning.
• J) Use different representations and artistic expression and begin to build visual proposals.
• K) Value hygiene and health, accept one's body and that of others, respect differences, and use physical education and sport as a means to foster personal and social development.
• L) Know and value animals closer to human behavior and adopt ways to encourage their care.
• M) Develop their affective capacities in all areas of personality and relationships with others, and take a stand against violence, damage of any type, and gender stereotypes.
• N) Promote driver education and attitudes of respect that affect the prevention of traffic accidents.