Ballymacrickett Primary School

Overview

Ballymacrickett Primary School and Nursery Unit continues to demonstrate a “high level of capacity for sustained improvement” following a sustaining improvement inspection. The school maintains a “whole-school, collegial approach to continuous improvement” underpinned by strategic leadership and rigorous self-evaluation.

Strengths

• Leadership is described as “highly strategic, collaborative and reflective,” with a shared vision for “high quality child-centred provision.”
• All observed lessons were rated as “very good or outstanding,” featuring “creative and active approaches” in “well-resourced, stimulating” environments.
• Literacy planning is of a “very high quality,” enabling children to write for diverse purposes and use technology with confidence.
• Children “engage fully and actively in their learning,” producing written work of a “consistently high standard” across all stages.
• Nursery children produce “high quality representational artwork” and many can independently write their own names.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The school’s safeguarding arrangements “reflect the guidance from the Department of Education,” and children report that they “feel safe in school” and know how to keep safe online.