ICT
At Ysgol Clywedog we believe in equipping our pupils with the necessary skills for the 21st Century. At the forefront must be the development of each pupil’s ICT capability. Every pupil will have discrete ICT lessons at KS3 to ensure they have the necessary skills to support the rest of their education. They will also follow an ICT qualification at KS4.
We want our pupils to have the potential to be “information-rich” so they will not be disadvantaged in society, when they leave school.
To this end, we have 4 suites of dedicated ICT teaching rooms. There are also dedicated ICT resource areas around school for pupils to use in other lessons, in addition to their ICT lessons. For those pupils without access to a computer at home, the school library has up to date computers, which can be used at lunchtimes and after school - so no excuses!
We constantly review the ICT provision in school to ensure we are doing the very best we can to meet pupils’ needs. At the moment we are currently developing systems to enable pupils to submit their work electronically, so they can work on their computers at home and have their marked work delivered back to them electronically.
The key features of the school’s ICT provision are:-
Ø discrete ICT lessons for each student;
Ø opportunities to follow an ICT qualification at KS4;
Ø teaching and learning, supported by ICT across the curriculum;
Ø Internet access for all with student safety paramount. Pupils are therefore educated to use the Internet appropriately and given advice on how to remain safe on-line;
Ø individual school email accounts;
Ø filtering software gives us the ability to restrict access to certain sites;
Ø ICT qualifications at KS4.
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