Holy Cross Primary School

Overview

This follow-up inspection confirms that Holy Cross Primary School has successfully addressed the significant areas for improvement identified in 2016. The report states that outcomes for learners, the quality of provision, and leadership are now “good,” demonstrating the school’s capacity to “identify and bring about improvement.”

Strengths

• Learner outcomes are “good,” with “significant improvement in the accuracy and creativity of the children’s writing” and most children achieving as expected in literacy and numeracy.
• The quality of provision is “good,” featuring consistent learning and teaching where “almost all of the lessons observed... were good or better, with a majority being very good.”
• Leadership is “good,” characterised by a “strategic, distributive approach” that supports capacity building and an “embedded culture of self-evaluation.”
• Governors are “well-informed” and provide appropriate “support and challenge” to staff and leadership.
• Staff received “very good professional development and support” from the Education Authority and CCMS.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement, noting instead that the school must now focus on sustaining the improvements achieved.

Safeguarding

The previous deficiencies have been addressed, with arrangements now reflecting Department of Education guidance and children reporting that they “feel safe and secure in the school.”