Cross-Curricular Skills

 Helping every learner thrive in literacy, numeracy and digital competence.

At Heolddu, we recognise that skills and knowledge are inseparably intertwined and mutually interdependent. By developing both, we ensure our pupils are well-equipped to succeed personally, academically, and beyond. Our pupils are given opportunities to:

• develop listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills
• be able to use numbers and solve problems in real-life situations
• be confident users of a range of technologies to help them function and communicate effectively, and make sense of the world.

Our Cross-Curricular Skills Framework shows how we nurture these abilities from Year 7 through Year 11 in line with the Curriculum for Wales.

This whole-school approach ensures that every lesson supports the development of essential life-long skills to realise the four purposes of the CfW. Pupils leave our school confident communicators, problem-solvers and responsible digital citizens, ready for further study, work and life.

To support schools and practitioners in providing opportunities to develop, extend, and apply these skills, the Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF) and the Digital Competence Framework (DCF) have been updated and remain available as non-statutory supporting guidance.

🔗 Literacy and Numeracy Framework | HWB

🔗 Digital Competence Framework | HWB