We are incredibly proud at the Royal High Primary School to achieve our DSAS Primary Award. The award recognises all the great work done by staff and pupils at our school to provide a quality and progressive Technologies Education. We have embedded coding within our curriculum, alongside progressive CRIS teaching and use local and national documents to plan and inform digital skills. We are using evaluating our use of SAMR, alongside pupil leadership and digital literacy, but recognise the balance of digital skills and ensuring children have a balanced relationship with Digital Technology. It was great to recognise the CPD staff have engaged in, the digital tools we use to support planning and assessments and particularly our partnership with our local authority Digital Learning Coordinator. Submission for the award itself was straightforward and quick, the criteria was clear and our assessor, Sharon, was very experienced and knowledgeable – it was a great opportunity to reflect and celebrate where we are on our digital journey.
As well as validating our award, we have been given a clear path of our next steps and we are very excited to think about where our Digital journey will go next.
I highly recommend the DSAS award for schools looking to evidence and reflect on their digital journey- it has been empowering for our Digital Deputies pupil group, and for our staff.