Anahilt Primary School

Overview

This follow-up inspection confirms that Anahilt Primary School has successfully addressed the significant areas for improvement identified in 2016. The report states that the school now demonstrates the capacity to “identify and bring about improvement in the interest of all the learners,” with overall provision, leadership, and governance rated as good.

Strengths

• Learner outcomes remain good, with children expressing themselves confidently and reading with “confidence and fluency.”
• The quality of provision is now good, featuring lessons set in “meaningful contexts” and an “effective range of active learning and teaching methods.”
• Leadership and management are effective, with clear systems for monitoring, evaluation, and using data to “set targets, plan interventions and track progression.”
• Governance has strengthened, with the board of governors exercising their “challenge function” effectively.
• The school has benefited from being “very well supported by the Education Authority,” particularly regarding literacy planning.

Areas to improve

• Address the “variation in the quality of the evaluations of learning” among teachers.
• Embed monitoring approaches across other curricular areas beyond literacy.
• Continue to build the capacity of middle leaders to evaluate the quality of learning experiences.

Safeguarding

The report notes that pastoral policies for Relationship and Sexuality Education and anti-bullying are now in place, but does not provide a specific narrative evaluation of safeguarding arrangements.