GOVERNORS and teachers of a Craven school are celebrating after inspectors praised its "good and outstanding teaching".

Upper Wharfedale School in Threshfield was graded 'good' in all areas in its latest Ofsted report.

The inspectors gave the school a 'good' rating in four categories - leadership and management; behaviour and safety of pupils; quality of teaching; and achieve ment of pupils.

In the report, the inspectors singled out the teaching of maths as being particularly strong, while pupils were praised for showing respect for each other and for adults.

Among the key findings by inspectors were that:

By Year 11, standards in GCSE exams are typically above average;

Good and sometimes outstanding teaching means that pupils make good progress;

The behaviour of pupils is good;

The headteacher and associate headteacher have taken decisive action to improve teaching;

Disadvantaged pupils make as good progress as others;

Governors are clear about the school's immediate and longer-term priorities;

Partnerships with Kettlewell Primary and others help the school to improve further.

But inspectors also pointed that there was "room for improvement" in the teaching of English and that more support and training needed to be given to teachers to use information so that "action plans for driving improvement are more precise".

Headteacher Andrew Taylor said that he was pleased that the hard work of pupils, governors and staff had been recognised.

"We are not complacent and realise that there will always be more to do. Given the recent substantial changes to the

inspection process and criteria, we have a lot to celebrate."

Chairman of Governors Val Berry also welcomed the judgement.

She said: "We strive to develop the personal and social aspects of learning as well as the academic, and I am pleased that this was...noted in the report."

Ofsted inspectors grade all schools into four categories - outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.