Donaghadee Primary School

Overview

This sustaining improvement inspection confirms that Donaghadee Primary School “continues to demonstrate a high level of capacity for sustained improvement in the interest of all the learners.” The report notes that the school’s previous evaluation of “outstanding” effectiveness is maintained through effective self-evaluation and development planning. The inspection focused specifically on the further development of numeracy and the use of digital technologies.

Strengths

• The school development plan is “informed by extensive consultation with children, staff, parents and governors” and effectively underpins the school’s strategic direction.
• Children “enjoy numeracy lessons” and, by key stage 2, are “confident and flexible in their mathematical thinking,” employing a wide range of strategies to solve problems.
• The ICT programme “develops very effectively the children’s confidence, self-esteem and acquisition of the key skills.”
• Staff have “responded very well to ICT training” and implement this “confidently into their practice.”
• Comprehensive numeracy planning provides “connected learning opportunities” for children, supported by continual monitoring and evaluation.

Areas to improve

The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The school provided evidence that “the arrangements for safeguarding children reflect the guidance from the Department of Education.”