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Turn your school’s SHRN data into a live lesson.
‘Be a Local Data Scientist Using Your School’s SHRN Data’ is a ready-to-use Year 9 lesson where learners work with their own SHRN data, spotting patterns, asking questions, and making sense of real issues.
Quick to use
✔️ Slides, worksheets and prompts included
✔️ No prior data experience needed
✔️ Fully bilingual
What learners do
The focus is simple: helping young people think more like data scientists. In practice, that means learners will:
- Spot trends in real data
- Explain what’s going on (with evidence)
- Question and interpret findings
- Suggest realistic actions
The lesson also links directly to The Digital Competence Framework (DCF) and supports the Whole-School Approach to Mental Health and Emotional Well-being, helping schools connect classroom learning with wider priorities around well-being, pupil voice and digital skills.
Curriculum links
The lesson is designed to sit naturally within the Curriculum for Wales, with clear links across:
- Science and Technology
- Mathematics and Numeracy
- Health and Well-being
- Digital Competence
- Humanities and literacy
It works well as part of PSE, tutor time, or subject teaching where data and evidence are already part of the conversation.
Feedback
If you use the materials, we’d really like to hear how it went — what worked well, what you adapted, and what learners took from it. Please email SHRN@cardiff.ac.uk.
Explore more
SHRN data already plays a key role in many schools – supporting improvement planning and well-being work. But what happens when learners work directly with that data? Read our blog to explore how this approach is being tested in classrooms, and how it can support data literacy, Curriculum for Wales, and make SHRN data more meaningful for learners.