Staff, parents and children are celebrating because improvements at their school mean it is now ranked as good by Ofsted.

Inspectors welcomed better quality teaching at Shawley Community Primary School in Shawley Way, Epsom, which was rated as "needs improvement" two years ago.

The Ofsted report said: "The headteacher and deputy headteacher have worked together effectively since the last inspection to improve the quality of teaching throughout the school so that it is now consistently good.

"Actions to check the quality of teaching are extremely rigorous."

It added: "This good teaching has led to improvements in the achievement of pupils throughout the school."

Pupils performed better in English and Maths at the end of Key Stage 1 and 2 and their results are now above average.

The inspection, which was carried out last month, found that behaviour was good, pupils were proud of their school and governors now hold the school more closely to account.

But the Ofsted report said marking in subjects, apart from English and Maths, does little to help student improve their work and more-able pupils are not always challenged.

Headteacher Chris Gill said: "We have made some significant changes at the school over the last two years and so we knew we were doing the right things but it is fantastic now that Ofsted has verified that."

Mr Gill added: "This judgement reflects the hard work that everyone associated with the school has undertaken recently and I want to thank them for that."

Shawley Community Primary School has 297 pupils, aged 4 to 11, on its school roll.

See the report at http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/125005