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ICT

The ICT Learning Area at Ysgol Y Rhos is committed to delivering outstanding learning experiences for all students. We believe in providing them with appropriate pace and challenge which fosters and enhances their learning.

We do this through:

  1. Setting high expectation for all our students
  2. Inspiring and motivating our students.
  3. Offering stimulating, diverse and engaging lessons.
  4. Enthusing and challenging all our students to think independently and creatively.

Aims

Our more specific aims are linked to the new curriculum in Wales and the Digital Competence Framework:

Strands and elements

The DCF sets out the digital skills to be attained by learners aged between 3 and 16 across four strands:

  • Citizenship
  • Interacting and collaborating
  • Producing
  • Data and computational thinking

Each strand is split into a number of elements, as shown below.

  1. Citizenship
    • Identity, image and reputation
    • Health and well-being
    • Digital rights licensing and ownership
    • Online behaviour and cyberbullying
  2. Interacting and collaborating
    • Communication
    • Collaboration
    • Storing and sharing
  3. Producing
    • Planning, sourcing and searching
    • Creating
    • Evaluating and improving
  4. Data and computational thinking
    • Problem solving and modelling
    • Data and information
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