What the most important thing a child should leave primary school with?

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Just asking cos I asked this in a teacher training interview recently and was disappointed with the answer given.

Self-confidence?

An enjoyment of learning and self confidence. Sorry that's 2 things!

Independent learning skills.

And if I can have a sneaky second one, a desire to use them

Curiosity to learn

A love of learning, a distrust of testing and their cardigan.

A basic education! Any child who leaves primary without being able to read, write, do simple sums, has been failed.

Reading, writing, mathematical understanding, confidence in own ability and being capable of finding things out on their own (the skill of learning).

Positive attitude to learning and self organisational skills.

What answer get?

What answer did you want?

Curiosity, a love of learning new things and the knowledge that I may take some effort on their part!

What was ‘the answer’?

Friends

Curiosity to learn (along with skills and confidence to do so)

Ability to independantly learn from planted seeds of information.

Their stinky PE kit from the lost property pile and that lunch box of theirs that has been under the pegs for far too long.

Sorry. I couldn't resist.

All of the above
Plus empathy

Confiedence and Independence

Confidence and self-belief.

Initiative and independence
By this I mean an ability to do the following:

• decide what to do when they reach the bottom of the page and run out of lines on that particular page
• decide what to do when their pen runs out
• ask for help on time and state what the problem is clearly instead of saying ‘I’m stuck’ after twenty minutes of inaction
• present work neatly and sensibly
• organise belongings and homework without parental input
• know how dates work, the months of the year, the dates of immovable festivals and their family’s birthdays, plus today’s date
• ability to use paper or online diary / planner to organise self

The above are just a few examples. You’ll see I haven’t specified particular academic skills.
Upper KS2 teacher here, despairing of children with learned helplessness.

Any child who leaves primary without being able to read, write, do simple sums, has been failed

Not if they started with significant learning difficulties. You clearly don’t realise the range of children in state primary schools.

I am torn between knowing how to learn and building on mistakes
Or being able to read.

Confidence in their abilities

I was Open minded and there wasn't a single, correct answer that I was looking for. But I suppose I was hoping for something that was focused on education, knowledge,
learning.

I probably agree with

Reading, writing, mathematical understanding, confidence in own ability and being capable of finding things out on their own (the skill of learning)

This one the most, out of all the answers
So far, although I'd have been happy with more general answers re a love Of learning etc

The answer Given was "friends"

A belief in themselves and a desire to learn.

Any child who leaves primary without being able to read, write, do simple sums, has been failed

I agree with this except In the case of severe SEN. I think expectations can often be too low and it's scandalous that some children leave without basic literacy. I say this as
Someone with a y1 child who is struggling

Self sufficiency
Very tricky teaching y7 that have to be told 1:1 every individual stage of how to do anything. If the majority have reasonable self sufficency skills the teacher can focus on those who do actually need a bit more input.

Apologies for random capitalisation