This course is designed to support primary teachers in teaching data literacy to learners through engaging, age-appropriate, and practical approaches. It introduces strategies for helping pupils develop skills in collecting, sorting, classifying, representing, interpreting, and questioning data using familiar materials, classroom activities, and everyday experiences.

Structured around seven short, self-paced modules, the course includes examples and activities that can be adapted across P1–P7. In the earlier primary years, activities may involve play-based and hands-on approaches, such as visual storytelling and using tangible materials including fruits, blocks, or classroom objects. As learners progress through primary school, these ideas can be extended through more complex data, different forms of representation, and opportunities to interpret, compare, and discuss what data shows. The course aims to help teachers consider how data activities can be adapted to the age, stage, and needs of their learners.

The course also provides opportunities for teachers to connect with colleagues, share reflections, and discuss classroom ideas as part of a professional learning community.

By the end of the course, participants will have explored practical ways of integrating data literacy into everyday teaching across the primary years and will have opportunities to reflect on how these approaches could be used within their own classroom contexts.