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Elm Tree Community Primary School
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Elm Tree Community Primary School
- Primary
- West Lancashire WN8 6SA
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| Effectiveness of leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Good |
| Quality of teaching, learning and assessment | Outstanding |
| Personal development, behaviour and welfare | Outstanding |
| Outcomes for pupils | Outstanding |
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Foundational Skills: Developing pupils’ reading, writing, and mathematical skills is a high priority in school. Phonics teaching and intensive phonics programmes help pupils catch up.
Success of the Curriculum: The school offers an exciting, broad and balanced curriculum that is fun and engaging for pupils. Physical education (PE) is a particular strength.
Areas Needing Improvement: Improve further the quality of teaching and learning in mathematics, by ensuring that teachers extend and challenge the most able pupils by maximising opportunities for pupils to think through problems and work out how to solve them by themselves.
Performance in Maths & Reading: All groups of pupils made at least good progress, with the vast majority making outstanding progress over time. Evidence in pupils’ workbooks confirms this.
Support for Falling Behind: Pupils are helped to read through very good phonics teaching and opportunities to access an intensive phonics programme if they need to catch up.
Behaviour and Attitudes: Behaviour is outstanding. Pupils conduct themselves well around school and work hard to manage their own behaviour.
Support for SEND Pupils: Leaders use additional funding for pupils with SEND extremely effectively to provide staffing and resources to support pupils’ needs. Therapies such as speech and language therapy, play therapy, and massage contribute to pupils’ readiness to learn.
Managing Bullying and Pupil Safety: Pupils feel very safe in school and parents agree. Safeguarding arrangements and security checks on staff are meticulous.
Promotion of Welfare and Safety: Every aspect of pupils' welfare is considered to provide a calm environment that promotes readiness to learn.
Parent Feedback: Most parents spoken to by inspectors and those who responded to Parent View expressed praise for the school and the work of the staff.
Parental Involvement: Leaders have planned to double the number of parents’ evenings and coffee mornings available to parents this academic year.
Extracurricular Activities: The school’s enrichment curriculum is exceptional, offering activities like outdoor residential experiences, trips to London, theatre visits, rock climbing, cycling, kayaking, gorge walking, and abseiling.
Outdoor Facilities: Pupils benefit from the school’s own woodland area, where they can experience outdoor crafts.
Teacher Engagement: Teachers’ subject knowledge is strong, both in terms of their understanding of the new national curriculum and the specialist knowledge they have of working with pupils whose needs are often complex.
Impact on Student Progress: Teachers check on pupils’ learning regularly and use constant assessment to update knowledge of pupils’ progress and plan next steps in learning.
Assessment of Teaching Quality: There is a schedule of regular checks on the quality of teaching and learning. The whole staff team are very confident in using the school’s assessment system.
Teaching Staff Challenges: Occasionally the most able pupils are not challenged enough in mathematics. Teachers sometimes miss opportunities to deepen pupils’ learning.
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About Us
Elm Tree Community Primary School is a Primary, Co-Ed school located in Lancashire, North West.
It has 154 students from age 4-11 yr with a student-teacher ratio of 7 : 1.
At this school, 0% of pupils achieved higher standard in reading, writing & maths at key stage 2.
This school rated Outstanding by recent Ofsted inspection.
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| Phase of Education | Primary | Primary |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Special Schools | Special Schools |
| Snobe grade |
B-
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C+
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| Ofset report | Outstanding | Outstanding |
| Age range | 4-11 | 2-11 |
| Gender | Co-Ed | Co-Ed |
|---|---|---|
| Student teacher ratio | 7 | 6.6 |
| Proficient Math | 88 | - |
| Proficient Read | 97 | - |
| Grade 5 or above GCSE | - | - |
| Grade 5 or above A Level | - | - |
| Day Fees | - | - |
Primary Exam Result
View the average scaled scores of pupils in the key stage 2 reading and math tests. Scores of 100 or more indicate the expected standard, while 110 or more indicate a higher standard.
| Average scaled score | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maths | 88 | 96 | 97 |
| Reading | 97 | 97 | 98 |
Explore how well our pupils are doing academically. Discover the percentage of pupils who reach the expected level (with a score of 100 or more) and those who excel even further (achieving a score of 110 or more).
| Reading, writing and maths | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils meeting the expected standard | 0% | 55.57% | 55.96% |
| Pupils achieving at a higher standard | 0% | 7.4% | 7.42% |
Explore how much progress pupils have made in reading, writing, and math from key stage 1 to key stage 2.
| Subject | Progress score | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | -15.2 | Well Below Average |
| Writing | 1.9 | Above Average |
| Maths | -20.9 | Well Below Average |
Exam Result Not Published
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results were not published at school level.
Exam Result Not Published
Due to the pandemic 2020, 2021 and 2022 Primary school exam
results were not published at school level.
Exam Result Not Published
Due to the pandemic 2020, 2021 and 2022 Primary school exam
results were not published at school level.
View the average scaled scores of pupils in the key stage 2 reading and math tests. Scores of 100 or more indicate the expected standard, while 110 or more indicate a higher standard.
| Average scaled score | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maths | 93 | 95 | 96 |
| Reading | 98 1 | 95 | 95 |
Explore how well our pupils are doing academically. Discover the percentage of pupils who reach the expected level (with a score of 100 or more) and those who excel even further (achieving a score of 110 or more).
| Reading, writing and maths | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils meeting the expected standard | 0% | 60.01% | 60.44% |
| Pupils achieving at a higher standard | 0% | 9.2% | 9.72% |
Explore how much progress pupils have made in reading, writing, and math from key stage 1 to key stage 2.
| Subject | Progress score | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | -10.3 | Well Below Average |
| Writing | -12.2 | Well Below Average |
| Maths | -10.8 | Well Below Average |
View the average scaled scores of pupils in the key stage 2 reading and math tests. Scores of 100 or more indicate the expected standard, while 110 or more indicate a higher standard.
| Average scaled score | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maths | 93 4 | 94 | 94 |
| Reading | 99 5 | 95 | 95 |
Explore how well our pupils are doing academically. Discover the percentage of pupils who reach the expected level (with a score of 100 or more) and those who excel even further (achieving a score of 110 or more).
| Reading, writing and maths | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils meeting the expected standard | 5% | 60.92% | 59.51% |
| Pupils achieving at a higher standard | 0% | 9.08% | 9.16% |
Explore how much progress pupils have made in reading, writing, and math from key stage 1 to key stage 2.
| Subject | Progress score | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | -1.9 | Below Average |
| Writing | -12.7 | Well Below Average |
| Maths | -6.3 | Well Below Average |
View the average scaled scores of pupils in the key stage 2 reading and math tests. Scores of 100 or more indicate the expected standard, while 110 or more indicate a higher standard.
| Average scaled score | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maths | 89 | 94 | 93 |
| Reading | 94 | 95 | 93 |
Explore how well our pupils are doing academically. Discover the percentage of pupils who reach the expected level (with a score of 100 or more) and those who excel even further (achieving a score of 110 or more).
| Reading, writing and maths | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils meeting the expected standard | 0% | 57.03% | 56.29% |
| Pupils achieving at a higher standard | 0% | 7.79% | 8.19% |
Explore how much progress pupils have made in reading, writing, and math from key stage 1 to key stage 2.
| Subject | Progress score | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | -5.5 | Well Below Average |
| Writing | -4.7 | Well Below Average |
| Maths | -9.2 | Well Below Average |
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Holidays & terms
Holidays 2024/25
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 21st Oct 2024 - 25th Oct 2024 |
| Winter Holidays | 23rd Dec 2024 - 3rd Jan 2025 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 17th Feb 2025 - 21st Feb 2025 |
| Spring Holidays | 7th Apr 2025 - 21st Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 23rd Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 2nd Sep 2024 - 20th Oct 2024 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 26th Oct 2024 - 22nd Dec 2024 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2025 - 16th Feb 2025 |
| Spring Term-2 | 22nd Feb 2025 - 6th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Term | 22nd Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 22nd Jul 2025 |
Students Teachers
7 : 1
Student teacher ratio at Elm Tree Community Primary School
Local authority ratio 19 : 1