Lisbellaw Primary School

Overview

The report confirms that Lisbellaw Primary School and Nursery Unit “continues to demonstrate a high level of capacity for sustained improvement in the interest of all the learners.” It highlights a “highly reflective culture of self-evaluation” and effective partnerships with parents. The inspection focused on numeracy, finding that the school successfully raises the quality of learning experiences and outcomes.

Strengths

• The school maintains a “highly reflective culture of self-evaluation,” using data effectively to identify children requiring support and implementing “timely interventions.”
• There is an “effective working partnership between the staff and parents,” with parents being “very well informed” through detailed reports and engagement opportunities.
• Numeracy planning is of a “very high quality,” providing meaningful opportunities for children to make connections across the curriculum.
• Children respond well to “open-ended questioning” and use “excellent resources” confidently; observed lessons were of “very good or outstanding quality.”
• Performance data shows that “almost all of the children... continue to make progress and achieve at or above expectation.”

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.”