Stranmillis Primary School

Overview

Stranmillis Primary School and Nursery Unit continues to demonstrate a "high level of capacity for sustained improvement" following a previous evaluation of outstanding effectiveness. The inspection confirmed that the school maintains its high standards through effective self-evaluation and strategic planning, with no major changes to the leadership team since 2014.

Strengths

• The school employs a "strategic and systematic approach to school improvement," built upon professional development and the effective use of data.
• Staff engage as a team to set "challenging targets," monitor differentiated planning, and share "in-depth evaluations of the quality of the children’s work."
• Children talk "confidently about their thinking and learning in mathematics," drawing on a range of mental strategies.
• Pupils are "flexible in their mathematical problem solving," with almost all achieving "very good standards in mathematics."

Areas to improve

• The report identifies that the fencing at the front of the school is "too low," which "could impact negatively on the children’s safety."

Safeguarding

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