St Patrick’s and & St Brigid’s achieve inclusion award

ST Patrick’s and St Brigid’s Primary School and Nursery Unit in Ballycastle is one of the first schools in the whole of Northern Ireland to receive a coveted ‘inclusion’ award.

And the school pointed out it is the first school in the North-Eastern Education Board area to receive the accolade.

It is an Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Award and the school was in London recently to pick it up.

School principal Eamonn Magee told the Times: “There are only two other primary schools to have received this award in Northern Ireland and we are the first primary school in the North Eastern Education & Library Board to have received this IQM Award.”

The summary of the report, produced by the assessor, said: ‘St Patrick’s and St Brigid’s Primary School and Nursery Unit clearly demonstrates some excellent inclusive practice which is led by the Principal, the Vice Principal (VP) and the Senior Management Team (SMT) and implemented by all staff and other stakeholders within the school, all of whom have wholeheartedly embraced inclusion.