Sacred Heart Primary School

Overview

This Sustaining Improvement Inspection evaluated the school’s capacity for improvement through self-evaluation and planning. Due to industrial action involving non-cooperation by teaching unions, the ETI was unable to fully evaluate the quality of learning and teaching or assure stakeholders of the overall quality of education.

Strengths

• There is a "consistent approach to school improvement" with coordinators regularly monitoring the impact of actions on children’s learning.
• Children spoke positively about their learning, particularly enjoying "mathematics week" and applying numeracy skills to "real-life situations".
• The school has introduced initiatives through "links with a wide range of outside agencies" to support health and wellbeing.
• Pupils demonstrated strategies to manage anxiety and participated in activities like the "daily mile challenge" to stay healthy.
• Feedback from children, parents, and staff is used to "inform future planning".

Areas to improve

• The report does not list specific areas for improvement, as the ETI was unable to fully evaluate the lines of inquiry or classroom teaching due to the industrial action.

Safeguarding

The school provided evidence that safeguarding arrangements "reflect broadly the guidance from the Department of Education," and pupils reported feeling safe, though the ETI could not fully evaluate the outworking of these arrangements due to the strike action.