Rowandale Integrated Primary School

Overview

Rowandale Integrated Primary School continues to demonstrate a "high level of capacity for sustained improvement" following a previous evaluation of "very good" effectiveness. The inspection confirmed that the school maintains consistently high standards in literacy and numeracy through effective planning, evaluation, and assessment for learning.

Strengths

• The senior leadership team has led a "strategically revised approach" to short-term planning and assessment, with a particular focus on "marking for improvement".
• Planning is described as "comprehensive", with evaluations used effectively to identify support needs and set individual targets.
• Teachers and classroom assistants employ "highly effective strategies", including targeted small-group and withdrawal support, resulting in lessons that were "good or better".
• Children speak "confidently and maturely" about the feedback they receive and are developing the ability to "self-reflect on their learning".
• Pupils demonstrate "very good fluency, comprehension and expression" in reading and are "very secure" in their mathematical knowledge by the end of key stage 2.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The school provided evidence that its safeguarding arrangements "reflect the guidance from the Department of Education".