Broad general knowledge usually subject-based but also including
knowledge imparted in PSHE programmes, in extracurricular work and
cross-curricular initiatives and projects

PILLAR 2. LEARNING TO DO

Competence to put into practice the other forms of learning.
The ability to deal with situations (personal, occupational, social) that arise
through life and to act creatively on one’s environment.
The ability to use higher thinking skills,
to process information and to communicate with others.

PILLAR 3. LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER

Developing understanding of and respect for other people,
their cultures and values.
Empathy for others and an understanding of diversity and
similarities between people.
Appreciating interdependence and being able to talk
and debate so as to participate and cooperate,
to build positive relationships and combat violence and conflict.

PILLAR 4. LEARNING TO BE

Developing the ‘all-round’ person possessed of
appropriate autonomy, sound judgement and personal responsibility,
through attention to all aspects of a person’s potential – mind and body,
intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic sense and spiritual values –
so that they can understand themselves and their world.

PILLAR 5. LEARNING TO LEARN

The magnet that pulls the other aspects of learning together
and the cement that binds them.
Intellectual curiosity, techniques of understanding,
the ability to synthesise new knowledge from what is already known.
The learner as a creator of knowledge rather than as
a tabula rasa or an empty vessel to be filled.
The ability to learn independently. The autonomous learner
with enhanced ability and pre-disposition
to continue to learn throughout his or her life.