In its portrait the Inspectorate indicated what it had learned from its visit to St Aidans:

Lessons for others

• A lot of synergy effects have been created through co-operation between teachers at St. Aidans with their specific educational requirements on the one hand and specialized ICT people at Dublin City University on the other. It has brought ICT-driven education into many classrooms at St. Aidans.

• A highly successful decision was to create an intranet with subject-oriented applications as the spearhead of ICT policy. It has resulted in more and more material becoming available for education, while co-operation between teachers
  and pupils has increased enormously.

• ICT (e-mail, video-conferencing, chatting) offers exceptional opportunities for exchange programmes with other schools nationally and internationally.

• At St. Aidans, a few well- chosen projects have given an extra boost to motivation among teachers and pupils to use ICT.

• Given the reservations among many teachers and the traditional nature of St. Aidans, the strategy of gradually pulling down barriers and creating opportunities for those willing to use ICT seems to be a good one.

• ICT is used most creatively and most frequently in the year in which the requirements of the national curriculum are least rigorous, i.e. the optional Transition Year.

• It is motivating for all concerned to involve pupils in the ICT policy of the school, not only in the role of 'customers', but also as 'co-developers'.
  

Inspectie van het Onderwijs (2001) ICT Schoolportretten - Ierland, Ministerie van Onderwijs, Culture en Wetenscheppen.