Kirkinriola Primary School

Overview

This report details a sustaining improvement inspection conducted in December 2019, which was significantly limited by industrial action. Because teachers did not cooperate with the inspection team, the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) could not evaluate key aspects of the school’s performance. Consequently, the ETI states it is “unable to assure parents/carers... of the quality of education being provided for the children.”

Strengths

• The report notes that safeguarding arrangements “reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education.”
• A governor cooperated with the inspection team specifically regarding safeguarding matters.
• The school provided evidence to the inspection team despite the wider non-cooperation by staff.

Areas to improve

• The school needs to “update the Anti-bullying Policy to reflect more fully the current guidance from the Department of Education.”
• The report highlights that the ETI was unable to evaluate the “quality of learning and teaching within the classrooms.”
• The school is designated as a “high priority for future inspection with no further notice.”

Safeguarding

The report states that while arrangements “reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education,” the ETI was “unable to evaluate the outworking of the arrangements for safeguarding in the school” due to the industrial action.