Next year, he will be studying chemistry, physics, maths and DT.
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STUDENTS and staff at Dartmouth Academy are celebrating their best GCSE results yet.
She said: “National trends have shown that GCSE results have fallen in the United Kingdom this year- they’re said to be the worst in a decade”.
Mary Utton, headteacher at the school, said: “Our students deserve a lot of praise for all their hard work throughout their course and I am very proud of them”.
Other students deserving special mention are: Cameron Wilson (13 A*/As), Calvin Barker, Mia Fulcher, Megan Glover, Eve Miller (12 A*/As); Freya Dibble, Jack Lushington, Mhairi Macleod, Rosie Matthews, Hayden Stone (11 A*/As); Hannah Eggleton, Rebecca Grove, Emille Hopkins – all with ten A*/A grades or more.
“High quality teaching and students eager to learn were also key ingredients in the success of these results”.
I am enormously proud of all our Year 11 girls today.
“A large number of staff from Tollbar Multi Academy Trust have done incredibly well to turn around the results in a number of subject areas bearing in mind that when they took over the classes a year ago, students were lacking consistency having been taught by a variety of supply teachers”.
Lydia Housley got seven A*s and four As.
She said: “I’m so pleased with my results”. All the hard work, the stress and the worry.
Further than this, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) says that the pressure for schools to adopt the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) could effectively mean that schools drop “non-core” subjects such as Design & Technology from the syllabus altogether.
Gareth De Beer received four A*s, five As and a B.
“I was over the moon”.
She said: “I have worked so hard on my GCSEs and I am very happy with these results”. But you can always take them home to open them if you prefer.
Figures released by the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER) reveal that 73.1 per cent of girls have achieved a grade C or above, compared to 64.3 per cent of boys.
English was also a big success for the school with 63% getting a passing grade. It is expected to show more than two-thirds of GCSEs have been passed at C or above. “I have been stressing about further maths for quite a while, but I have done really well in that and the As were in different subjects than I thought so it’s not quite how I expected”.
Mum Hillary was on hand to offer support. “I definitely wouldn’t have got my results without them”. It also speaks volumes of the skill and persistence of Tina Graham and her team.
“For my music GCSE, we got to play at different venues as a band, including Crewe Hall and the King’s Hall”, she added.
There was also cause to celebrate at JFS where 50 per cent of passes were at A or above and 83 per cent gaining five or more A*-Cs including English and maths.
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“I’m so pleaded I got my C in English and in maths and that’s better than I hoped to do when I started”.
