Northern Ireland Success Stories
An Invaluable Resource in Star Maths at St Teresa’s Primary School
St Teresa's Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Following the success of Star Reading at the school making a positive impact on pupils reading development, headteacher terry oversaw the implementation of Star Maths to make the same impact on numeracy. Since then, we discovered the pupils at St Teresa's had carried out 1,501 Star Maths assessments last academic year.
Reading success and celebration with the Complete Literacy Solution in Northern Ireland
Aughnacloy Regional Primary School, Aughnacloy, Co.Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Aughnacloy Regional Primary School has been using Accelerated Reader and Star Reading since 2011 to support the school's literacy development strategy. In 2020, the school invested in myON, the digital library from Renaissance, to ensure all pupils could access reading and maintain reading engagement throughout the multiple lockdowns.
On the road to recovery
Christ the Redeemer Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Christ the Redeemer School have been using Renaissance solutions for over a decade. In the midst of a global pandemic with schools across Northern Ireland being forced to partially close their doors to pupils, the school continue to maintain high levels of reading engagement and staff have managed to avoid seeing too big of a drop in learning based on recent assessment data. The school even faced an inspection at the halfway point of the pandemic and were still able to produce an accurate and detailed analysis of their pupils' progress and subsequent teaching strategies to support those who had dropped off in both reading and mathematics.
Why Choose Star Maths
St Comgalls Primary School, County Antrim
Renaissance Learning's Curriculum and Education Specialist, Margaret Allen, speaks to Teacher and School Improvement Leader Catherine Magee.
The “major impact” of Accelerated Maths at Belfast primary school
Christ the Redeemer Primary School, Lagmore
Christ the Redeemer Primary School in Lagmore, West Belfast, introduced Accelerated Maths back in 2012 after the success of Accelerated Reader. In this longer read, the maths department at the school shares the school’s experience with Accelerated Maths and what they plan on doing with it in the future.
Happy teachers and happy students!
Acorn Integrated Nursery & Primary School, Carrickfergus
Athena Davis, the Literacy Coordinator at Acorn Integrated Nursery & Primary School, describes how the features of Accelerated Reader and Star Reading help their teachers, give children better learning experiences.
Establishing a reading culture using literacy data
Faughanvale Primary School, Faughanvale, County Londonderry
Faughanvale Primary School have seen huge improvement in reading engagement, and are using literacy data to inform their school planning in a range of creative ways.
‘Renaissance Accelerated Reader is the most motivational reading programme I have seen in almost 30 years of teaching’
St Joseph's Primary School, County Armagh
St Joseph's Primary School, based in Armagh, have witnessed extraordinary progress and unprecedented engagement with reading. Paud Loughran, Principal, outlines how the programme has complimented the school's outlook on reading, and shares how the school motivates their children to read.
Developing reading comprehension and engagement at County Antrim primary school
Christ the Redeemer Primary School, Belfast, County Antrim
‘A great buzz around books’ at Northern Ireland primary school
Millquarter Primary School, Toombridge, County Antrim