New ESTYN Supplementary Guidance for ICT

Please be aware that new Supplementary guidance for the inspection of ICT in schools was published last Friday.  This is an excerpt of an email from Greg Morgan, Head of Digital Learning, ERW.

Link to download pdf documents.

The main headlines are:

1. Each inspection report from September onwards will therefore include a paragraph on pupils’ standards in applying ICT across the curriculum in 1.1, as well as recording evidence in 1.1.4.
2. Inspectors don’t expect printed work, but will sit with pupils in front of a computer, so that the pupils can access their work. (Similar approach to listening to pupils reading in Literacy)
3. If there is no evidence of Data Handling or Modelling, Estyn will ‘consider Unsatisfactory for ICT’, which will have a direct knock-on effect on the whole inspection process in that particular school.
4. The table of Progression in ICT, on page 2 is clear.

Each appendix at the back of the document, are really useful, also:

• Appendix 1: Possible range of ICT skills in the Foundation Phase
• Appendix 2: Possible range of ICT skills in key stage 2
• Appendix 3: Possible range of ICT skills in key stage 3
• Appendix 4: Possible range of ICT skills in key stage 4
• Appendix 5: Questions for listening to learners in the Foundation Phase and key stage 2 for ICT
• Appendix 6: Questions for the senior manager overseeing the work of the co-ordinator(s) for ICT
• Appendix 7: Questions for the ICT skills co-ordinator
• Appendix 8: Prompts for evaluating the effectiveness of transition between primary and secondary schools
• Appendix 9: 2.1 Provision for skills
• Appendix 10: Developing ICT across the primary and secondary curriculum based on the Skills Framework for 3 to 19-year-olds in Wales (WAG, 2008)