ELLESMERE Primary School has been rated ‘Good’ across the board by Ofsted, it has been announced.

The school, in Elson Road, was inspected at the beginning of October and received the rating for quality of education; behaviour and attitudes; personal development; leadership and management and for early years’ provision.

The results were released on Monday, November 11.

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Mel Ford, the lead inspector, stated that the North West Academies Trust-managed school – which has 361 pupils – was considered to be a ‘happy, safe and well-cared for’ environment.

The inspection report said: “Pupils are happy, safe and well cared for at this school.

“They are polite and welcoming to visitors and kind and respectful to each other.

“Warm relationships between pupils and adults in the school support pupils in their endeavours to follow the ‘Ellesmere Way’, which has been introduced by the new headteacher. Pupils say that they like this approach because they know exactly what the expectations of them are.

“The pride they take in meeting these expectations is notable…pupils enjoy their learning.

“From the early years onwards, they are actively taught how to listen, how to communicate and how to work with each other.

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“As a result, pupils develop effective learning behaviours that help them to make good progress across the curriculum.

“Pupils speak with enthusiasm about the range of clubs they can attend. They enjoy the many visits to museums, historical landmarks, activity centres and places of worship, as well as community-based charity involvement.

“These opportunities, and the range of visitors to the school, help them to understand the wider world and support them to develop their aspirations.”

Ofsted also praised the school for ‘weaving reading and writing though every subject’ which helps pupils ‘understand that what they learn in one subject supports their learning in another’.

The report also praised that both pupils and teachers ‘want to come to the school’ because of the school’s ‘nurture, inspire, achieve’ motto while safeguarding was called ‘effective’.

It added: “Pupils want to come to school.

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“The school’s constant attention to ensuring that parents and carers understand the importance of being at school every day is paying dividends.

“As a result, attendance is good and improving.”

The report did call for more work to be done on subject-specific knowledge and supporting pupils in retaining that knowledge.