Bunscoil an Iúir get successful inspection report
May 9, 2012
The ETI visited Bunscoil an Iúir last week and have informed us that we have successfully moved out of the Formal Intervention Process. The inspectors reported very good practice in the school and have given us an overall grade of good.
The Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Mrs. Bernadette McCaul congratulated everyone involved saying, “ It is a credit to the teaching and support staff and to the parents and children who have contributed very positively to the outcome.”
During the Monitoring Visits, ETI reported back to the school the following areas of improvement that had been implemented by the school:
- The Board of Governors has been re-constituted and governor training has been instigated.
- Parents are more involved in the life and work of the school.
- Co-ordinators have been appointed and there is now a more equitable re-ditribution of roles and responsibilities. They have developed significantly in their roles and are working at a strategic level and monitoring and evaluating
- There is more joint planningand better subject overviews.
- ICT is used effectively.
- There is a wider range of teaching approaches.
- In the Foundation Stage, play-based learning supports well the children’s literacy and numeracy.
- SEN provision has been reviewed and more realistic targets are set.
- intervention and withdrawal
- Classroom Assistants working well with SEN children
- Standards are rising- some children have moved off the SEN register
- Leadership in the school is very good. The Principal has given structure and is providing strategic direction to the school. She has a clear agenda for school improvement
- Effective deployment of classroom assistants
- Active learning/ Assessment for Learning/ Clear Learning Intentions/ Use of Plenaries/ Connected Learning/ Development of Skills
- Whole school improvement
- Test results – Paired Reading programme was very successful.
- School has continued on the road of self-evaluation
- There was a more focused approach to monitoring Maths in the school. Some evidence of connecting Maths to real life situations, e.g. Trocaire and Credit Union. Processing – Numeracy advisor was supporting the school on this and work was progressing.
- There was more focus on monitoring and evaluating – there had been a ‘booklook’ on Addition. Suggested that this could be more focused in the future, e.g. rather than data-handling, focus on the use of pictograms throughout the school. There were also some observations of Maths lessons and this was an appropriate start for Co-ordinator
