The behaviour and development of pupils at Falmouth Primary Academy has been rated "outstanding" by Ofsted inspectors, along with the school's early years provision.

The report is cause for much celebration at the school, which received an overall rating of good. Executive head, Claire Smith, said: "We are very proud of our achievements. The report is testament to all the hard work across the school. It's a fantastic recognition for the children, their behaviour is a strength of the school.

"The children are very proud to be part of Falmouth Primary Academy and very proud to be part of the community. We will continue to work with the community and engage with our community so we can support it."

In the Ofsted report published this week, the school was rated excellent for personal development, behaviour and welfare and its early years provision, and good for the effectiveness of its leadership and management; quality of teaching, learning and assessment; and for outcomes for pupils.

The report says: "The school's work to promote pupils' personal development and welfare is outstanding. Across the school pupils display very mature attitudes to learning that are often in advance of what one would expect of pupils of similar ages.

"Many pupils enter the school with levels of social and emotional development that are well below those of children of the same age nationally. The school rightly puts a great deal of effort into working with these pupils. Staff have a detailed knowledge of this aspect of pupils' needs and the outstanding progress in personal development that pupils make is the bedrock of their strong progress across the school.

"The behaviour of pupils is outstanding. Attendance rates are above the national average and improving further. In particular, the attendance of key groups such as disadvantaged pupils is higher than the national figure for all pupils."

With regard to early years provision, the inspector says: "Most children arrive at the school working at levels well below those of children of similar ages nationally. Given their often extremely low starting ponts, children in the early years make rapid and sustained progress.

"In particular, disadvantaged children make rapid progress in the early years and the difference between their attainment and the attainment of children nationally is diminishing rapidly."

Although delighted with the report, the staff are not surprised by its findings. "This, for us, is just part of what we do day in, day out," said Ms Smith. "We know we have outstanding early years provision here and that gives our children an excellent start to their school life which makes them really well prepared."

Head of school, Jane Alexander, added: "Nothing is going to change now. We are just going to keep doing what we are doing."