Hezlett Primary School is a primary school

Primary education

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 located on the outskirts of Castlerock

Castlerock

Castlerock is a seaside village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is situated between Coleraine and Derry and is very popular with summer tourists, having numerous apartment blocks and three caravan sites. Castlerock Golf Club has both 9 and 18-hole links courses bounded by the beach, the...

, County Londonderry

County Londonderry

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, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. It is a state maintained school for girls and boys aged from 3 to 11 and has 295 pupils. The majority of pupils come from the villages of Castlerock and Articlave

Articlave

Articlave is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is on the main A2 coastal road, 7 kilometres west of Coleraine. It is a growing residential area and includes a range of commercial, social and community facilities. Its population grew by a third to 800 in the period...

, and the surrounding rural area. It is within the North Eastern Education and Library Board

North Eastern Education and Library Board

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 area.

• Enrolment: 232 in 2001-02, 243 in 2002-03, 253 in 2003-04, 273 in 2004-05, 272 in 2005-06
• Address: 1 Ballywoolen Road, Castlerock, BT51 4TZ

School inspection, 2005

The Department of Education (Northern Ireland)

Department of Education (Northern Ireland)

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 carried out a short inspection in October 2005 and found that the strengths of the school included: "the caring and supportive atmosphere which promotes well the children’s confidence and self-esteem ... · the good working relationships at all levels; the well-behaved and responsive children ... the dedicated teachers and the quality of teaching which ranges from good, in most of the lessons observed, to excellent, in a minority of lessons". Areas for improvement included: "the need to embed further, the use of Information and Communication Technology

Information technology

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(ICT) to support and extend the children’s learning.