Creggan Primary School

Overview

This sustaining improvement inspection was significantly limited because teachers did not cooperate due to industrial action. Consequently, the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) states it is “unable to assure parents/carers... of the quality of education being provided for the children.” The school is designated as a “high priority for future inspection with no further notice.”

Strengths

• Year 6 pupils report “very good opportunities to develop their leadership capabilities” through councils and the prefect system.
• Children enjoy participating in a “shared education project with a local controlled primary school.”
• Senior leadership cooperated with the inspection regarding safeguarding responsibilities.
• The school provided evidence that safeguarding arrangements “reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education.”

Areas to improve

• The ETI was unable to evaluate the quality of learning and teaching or the school’s capacity for self-evaluation due to staff non-cooperation.
• The school must address the impact of industrial action on inspection processes and educational provision.

Safeguarding

The report notes that children feel safe and know who to contact with concerns, but the ETI was “unable to evaluate fully the outworking of the arrangements for safeguarding in the school” owing to the action short of strike.