News / Very good report card
BURRAVOE Primary School in Yell has received a positive report after inspectors visited the school in November.
HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) Scotland praised the school’s headteacher Caroline Breyley for having an outward-looking approach to leading the school and for planning rich learning experiences for its children.
The report highlighted that children in Burravoe are happy and very supportive of each other, while attainments standards are very good and the pupils are making strong progress in almost all curriculum areas.
The inspector also highlighted the children’s exceptionally strong digital literacy skills, using films and animations and creating public blog content on the Glow Scotland digital learning platform.
SIC children and families committee chairwoman Vaila Wishart said: “This positive report shows that the pupils at Burravoe Primary School are making good progress.
“Their standards of attainment are very good, which is a reflection of the hard work put in by the headteacher, school staff, parents and pupils.”
The inspector highlighted an ethos of trust and mutual support; exciting learning experiences linking the local community and building children’s global understanding; the very high quality of digital literacy skills, and the partnership between the headteacher and the school’s learning support worker.
One area the inspector felt the school could improve is in building on children’s learning blogs, formalising the recording of their progress through Curriculum for Excellence and share with parents.
Education Scotland evaluates schools using six descriptions of quality: excellent, very good, good, satisfactory, weak and unsatisfactory. Burravoe Primary School was rated as follows:
- Improvements in performance: Very good
- Learners’ experiences: Very good
- Meeting learning needs: Very good
- The curriculum: Very good
- Improvement through self-evaluation: Good
- The full report can be found on Education Scotland’s website here.
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