Inspection Summary Report - Braidside Integrated Primary School

Braidside Integrated Primary School

DE Ref No 306-6551

Inspection Summary Report - October 2025

The children are proud that they belong to an integrated school where they have friends with different religious beliefs. They show respect for each other’s cultures and religions. They are articulate and confident talking their achievements. They participate readily in their learning and actively engage in paired and small group work if they are given the opportunity. The work in their books is well presented.
The school’s new three‑year school development plan identifies priorities for improvement. The associated action plans need precise targets and robust monitoring and evaluation processes to raise further the standards and achievements of the children.
The school is currently reviewing roles and responsibilities as part of the restructuring of the senior leadership team. Going forward there is a need to build collaborative working relationships among all staff and develop the strategic leadership at all levels to ensure the priorities for improvement are addressed effectively.
Where learning is most effective, the children are provided with planned opportunities to deepen and extend their understanding by connecting learning to real-life contexts.
The current long-term planning in the school and nursery unit is not guiding the teachers effectively enough to ensure the children’s learning experiences are consistent and support progression. Going forward, there is a need for staff to work together to review planning across the curriculum.
The nursery staff will need to plan for and implement additional strategies for the benefit of children who may require additional support with their speech, language and processing skills.
The school provides an inclusive environment for all of the children; children with special educational needs are supported effectively by the teachers and classroom assistants using effective adaptive learning strategies to help the children with their learning. The individual education/personal learning plans reviewed had appropriate and child-centred targets; these demonstrate that the children are making progress in their learning.
The school works well with local organisations such as the Trussell Trust, a residential care home and nearby churches to give the children meaningful opportunities to contribute positively to the local community and develop empathy for others.
The inspection identified the need for strategically planned professional learning opportunities, along with the identification and dissemination of effective practice across the school.
At the time of the inspection, the evidence provided by the school demonstrates that the arrangements for child protection align to the current statutory guidance.

Next steps

Braidside Integrated Primary School provides an inclusive and welcoming learning environment for all children. The improvement work to address the identified priorities will allow the school to better achieve its vision ‘to work together to enable each child to reach their academic and personal potential within a culture of mutual respect.’

The inspection has highlighted a number of areas for action. The areas for action which will enable Braidside Integrated Primary School to achieve its vision more fully are:

to develop effective collaborative working relationships among all of the staff, supported through strategically planned professional learning opportunities and identification and sharing of good practice across the school; and
to develop the roles of the co-ordinators to ensure more strategic development planning processes underpinned by robust monitoring and evaluation approaches to raise further the standards of the children.

ETI will monitor the progress the school in addressing the areas for action. There will be a progress inspection. Sustained external support will be provided to Braidside Integrated Primary School to help it address the areas for action in a timely way.