Dundela Primary School and Nursery Unit

Overview

This follow-up inspection confirms that Dundela Infants’ School has successfully addressed the significant areas for improvement identified in 2016. The report states that the school now demonstrates the capacity to identify and bring about improvement, with leadership and teaching quality rated as good.

Strengths

• Leadership and management are now "good," featuring "clear strategic leadership" and a "systematic approach to monitoring and evaluating key curricular areas."
• Teaching quality has improved, with "almost all of the lessons evaluated were good or better," and staff effectively develop "thinking skills and personal capabilities."
• Children are more empowered, having an "increasing range of opportunities to make independent decisions and choices and express their own opinions."
• The nursery unit provision is now "good," with particular strengths in "enhanced opportunities for creativity" where children are "confident to express their own creative ideas."

Areas to improve

• The school must focus on "embedding further the self-evaluation processes leading to improvement."
• Leaders need to ensure children are provided with "high quality learning opportunities across all areas of the pre-school curriculum within both indoor and outdoor environments."

Safeguarding

The provided report text does not contain specific statements or findings regarding safeguarding arrangements.