Enniskillen Nursery

Overview

The inspection was conducted during industrial action involving ‘action short of strike’, during which teachers refused to co-operate. Consequently, the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) was ‘unable to assure’ parents and the wider community ‘of the quality of education being provided for the children’. The report states that the nursery is a ‘high priority for future inspection with no further notice’.

Strengths

• The report identifies no areas of strength to praise, as the ETI was ‘unable to evaluate’ outcomes for learners, quality of provision, and leadership and management.
• No positive judgements regarding curriculum, teaching, or learning outcomes were made due to the lack of cooperation.
• The report does not highlight any specific successful practices or improvements.

Areas to improve

• The ETI was unable to evaluate ‘the effectiveness of strategic leadership and governance’ or ‘the effectiveness and impact of the leadership’.
• The inspectorate could not assess ‘the quality of the curriculum’ or ‘the effectiveness and impact of planning, teaching, learning and assessment’.
• The school must address the situation preventing the evaluation of ‘care and welfare’ and ‘safeguarding’ arrangements.

Safeguarding

The nursery provided evidence that safeguarding arrangements ‘reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education’, although the ETI was ‘unable to evaluate fully, the outworking of the arrangements for safeguarding in the nursery’.