Carrick Knowe Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Carrick Knowe Primary School is “led highly effectively” and provides a “calm, purposeful and nurturing environment for learning.” The report evaluates the school’s work on learning, teaching and assessment, and raising attainment and achievement as “very good.”

Strengths

• Staff have created a positive environment where “relationships and behaviour are very positive” and school values lie at the heart of all activities.
• Children are described as “articulate, welcoming, responsible and well-mannered,” demonstrating pride in their school community.
• Teachers work effectively together to deliver “high-quality learning and teaching consistently across the curriculum.”
• Assessment information is used well to set learning at the correct difficulty, resulting in children being “motivated and eager to learn” and making “very good progress.”
• Learning is delivered in “creative and highly engaging ways,” including outdoor and digital learning, which helps children make “strong connections across their learning.”

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders should continue to develop approaches to assessing children’s progress to provide “increased clarity of children’s progress in all curricular areas.”
• Senior leaders should monitor the impact of new teaching approaches to raise children’s attainment in writing further.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff ensure “children’s rights lie at the heart of all they do” within a nurturing environment, though it does not provide a separate detailed evaluation of safeguarding procedures.