In 2017, the Sutton Trust released some remarkable statistics: 97 per cent of teachers said that essential skills like team work, leadership, presenting and listening were as important for future success as academic achievement, with 35 per cent saying they saw these skills as being more important for future success.
I frequently ask primary school teachers why they started to teach. There are some themes that come out regularly: the joy of working with children, the immediacy of seeing them understand a concept and the thrill of seeing them retrieve and connect knowledge.
But there is something else that always comes out too: the opportunity that primary school teaching really presents to support the development of well-rounded, happy children. That means emotional wellbeing but also a broader set of eight underpinning skills that are cited regularly – team-work, leadership, listening, presenting, creativity, aiming high and staying positive.
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