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Why Choose Garvagh Primary?
Thank you for visiting Garvagh Primary School’s website. It gives us great pleasure to provide you with an opportunity to learn more about the life and work of our school family. We hope you will find it interesting and helpful.
Lights! Camera! Action!
Let's have a look at our promotional video in which you will get a view and feel of daily life at Garvagh Primary School. Get a chance to hear from staff and parents in our close-knit school family as well as finding lots of other important information.
What ETI(NI) said about us
Schools are monitored and quality-assured by the Education and Training Inspectorate or ETI(NI). Have a look and see what ETI(NI) has to say about Garvagh Primary School.​
Throughout the school, the children are very well-behaved and are keen to learn. They are respectful of their teachers, listen well in class and settle quickly to their learning tasks. When provided with stimulating and appropriately differentiated learning activities, the children engage actively in their learning and demonstrate independence and flexibility in their learning and thinking.
All of the teaching observed was effective. In the best practice, the lessons
observed were stimulating and well structured. The teachers used the planning
and assessment processes well to ensure there was a clear focus on the
learning and provided appropriate support to scaffold effectively the progress of
all the children.
The children who require additional support with their learning are integrated well into the life of the school. Their needs are met effectively through the focused objectives contained in the children’s individual education plans, well-planned withdrawal sessions and good quality support from the classroom assistants.
The provision for pastoral care in the school is very good. It is characterised by a
caring atmosphere and an appropriate sense of community
There are rigorous monitoring processes in place, which are used to inform good
quality evaluations of the children’s learning experiences, progress and
attainment.
In discussions with the inspectors, the group of year 6 children stated they are
happy in school and valued the positive working relationships they have with the
staff. The children spoke with pride about their school...
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