St Patrick's Primary School

Overview

This sustaining improvement inspection was conducted during industrial action, meaning teachers did not cooperate with inspectors. Consequently, the report cannot evaluate classroom teaching quality or assure stakeholders of the overall education quality. The inspection focused on specific development areas where evidence was available despite the non-cooperation.

Strengths

• Provision for play-based learning has developed through "greater collaboration between the staff in the Nursery Unit and the foundation stage."
• Planning is "informed well by the new methods for observing and recording the learning of individual children."
• The school has "worked consistently to improve the children’s standards in numeracy at KS1."
• Data was "used effectively to identify areas for improvement" and implement interventions, showing "improved outcomes for the children."

Areas to improve

• The report states the ETI is "unable to assure parents/carers... of the quality of education being provided for the children" due to staff action short of strike.
• The quality of learning and teaching within classrooms could not be evaluated.

Safeguarding

The school provided evidence that "satisfactory arrangements for safeguarding reflect broadly the guidance issued by the relevant Departments," and children reported they "feel safe and secure within the school."