Here are some of the assessor’s comments on Glengormley IPS’ Impact Evaluation:

“This is an absolutely outstanding Impact Evaluation. It is balanced and well-presented and it is very encouraging to see how your activity is completely cross-curricular and how you link them so appropriately to relevant global themes that you have incorporated very fluently into what is equally excellent work. Your ability to embed internationalism into clearly defined areas of your curriculum in such an apparently effortless manner clearly demonstrates your commitment to introducing and maintaining excellent practice across the board. Your whole cross-curricular approach to your work and the way you have introduced your activities and global themes are a testimony to the positive difference that engaging with the ISA has had on your curriculum and school ethos. You have also ensured that the quality and details of your work on international learning remain consistent with the requirements of the ISA. What is also encouraging is the fact that you are in no way complacent about the scale of work that is still required even though you have gone a very great distance in embracing international education. The activities you have delivered fit very well into the fabric of the curriculum and this is what the ISA at your level requires. Your school is an excellent example of how to guide your international work through a clearly planned directed and delivered set of activities across a logical cross-curricular platform. Having said all the above, as an additional tip, you may find it helpful to look back, at regular intervals, at the work you have done through the earlier stages of the ISA (especially keeping track of the relationship between curriculum areas and global themes) in order to maintain sight of the valuable expertise that you would have acquired in order to attain the full award in the first place. You will then be reminded of the need to identify and assign as many relevant global themes as possible to each of your cross-curricular activities in order tomake an accurate assessment of how far the ethos of internationalism has truly penetrated your curriculum at every level. Your partnership with your international partner schools in are well grounded and offer good opportunities for collaboration over many interesting topics and projects, as you have shown, and add weight and impact to your work…”