Seaview Primary School

Overview

This monitoring inspection evaluated how effectively leadership uses self-evaluation to drive improvement, focusing on literacy, numeracy, and technology. The report concludes that the school is “identifying and bringing about the necessary improvements in the quality of education” for the selected lines of inquiry.

Strengths

• A “strategic and systematic approach to reducing underachievement” through “tightly focused interventions” led by skilled teachers.
• Children benefit from “appropriate and challenging targets” recorded in personal learning plans, with “almost all” making “significant progress”.
• An agreed technology strategy has “enhanced learning and teaching,” allowing children to use technology “effectively, in a discerning way”.
• Pupils have developed a “very good range of information and communication skills (ICT)” that prepare them for independent and collaborative work.
• “Effective professional development of staff” challenges and supports them to achieve targets agreed in the school development plan.

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.”