Ballynure Primary School

Overview

Ballynure Primary School continues to demonstrate a “high level of capacity for sustained improvement” following a Sustaining Improvement Inspection. The report confirms that the school maintains “very good” overall effectiveness, with enrolment increasing significantly since the previous inspection.

Strengths

• Staff have successfully implemented an “appropriate scheme for play-based learning” following a comprehensive review.
• Professional development and sharing of good practice have resulted in the “successful updating of the teachers’ planning, assessments, evaluations and records of learning.”
• The curriculum provides “effective opportunities” for children to develop talking, listening, and numeracy skills through “well devised activities.”
• The quality of learning and teaching observed was “consistently very good across the key stages.”

Areas to improve

• The school must ensure the designated governor for safeguarding receives “appropriate Education Authority training.”
• Work is required on the pedestrian gate to “secure the school grounds.”
• The school needs to address “inadequate storage facilities” and “insufficient areas for withdrawal and peripatetic support classes” due to increased enrolment.

Safeguarding

The report states that safeguarding arrangements “reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education” and that pupils feel safe, though specific training for the designated governor is required.