Parkview celebrates ‘outstanding’ report

Parkview School provides education for pupils from three to 19 years of age with severe learning difficulties.

The inspection which took place in May focused on the pupils’ achievements and standards; the quality of provision for learning; the quality of leadership and management, including the school’s processes for self-evaluation leading to improvement.

In addition, the school’s arrangements for pastoral care, including child protection, were evaluated. In the areas inspected the quality of education was considered to be good in this school, and the pastoral care considered outstanding.

The pupils achieve good standards in behaviour, social and independent living skills.

The quality of teaching overall is good and better, including highly skilled support for the youngest pupils, the pupils following vocational programmes in the Extended Education Centre, and those pupils with challenging behaviour.

The Principal, Mr James Curran, was delighted when the school recently received the inspectors’ report which highly praised the standards of care in the school and the good quality teaching and learning.

He paid tribute to the hard work of all the staff in Parkview School in creating an environment where pupils are encouraged to develop as individuals in a happy, safe and stimulating environment.

He thanked the parents, carers and staff for their positive comments in the questionnaires sent out by ETi and paid tribute to the Board of Governors of the school.