Braniel Primary School

Overview

This monitoring inspection evaluated how effectively leadership and management use self-evaluation to drive improvement. The report concludes that the school is “identifying and bringing about the necessary improvements in the quality of education” for the selected lines of inquiry.

Strengths

• The implementation of literacy task boards is having a “positive impact on the children’s outcomes,” facilitating a “fluid progression from reading to writing tasks.”
• These initiatives reinforce the link between the writer’s craft and “higher order reading skills, such as scanning, skimming and predicting.”
• Self-evaluation is a “high priority for all of the staff,” with a clear timeline written into the school development plan.
• The board of governors has established a self-evaluation sub-committee to review findings from collegiate book discussions on reading journals.
• Classroom observations by coordinators and teachers, with resultant feedback, “inform well teachers’ self-reflection and professional development.”

Areas to improve

The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The school provided evidence that arrangements for safeguarding “reflect the guidance issued by the relevant Departments.”