Ponteland High School is celebrating its best ever GCSE results this year following a very successful summer series of examinations.
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The percentage of students achieving five or more GCSE’s including English and maths has also risen significantly to 48 per cent.
Nine students achieved seven or more A* and A grades in their results.
79 per cent of pupils at Colchester High School met the required standard and a total of 85% of the 54 St Mary’s candidates achieved a minimum of five A* to C passes including English and Maths.
He’s going to Newcastle Sixth Form College to study A-levels.
Whilst the national changes make it hard to compare year on year progress, we are confident that these results are the best that the school has seen.
Speaking about her results of five A* and six A grades, she said: “I was shaking when I opened the envelope, it was really overwhelming”.
Pupil Amiee-Rose Merrigan is congratulated by Year Head Mr McKenna on her exam results..
“The results are truly excellent, especially as 40% of our students did not go to primary school in the United Kingdom and a vast majority do not have English as their first language”.
52 per cent of students also bagged the English Baccalaureate and 86 per cent of students got either an A* or A grade in Further Science.
“The majority of our students are joining us in the sixth form next year and we would like to wish them, and all the students leaving us, every success in the future”.
“Together we have succeeded in ensuring that our students can continue their journey along a pathway to success which we allow them to realise their dreams”.
“I am particularly pleased to see the sustained improvements made at the schools we have worked most closely with over the past 12 months”.
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“It’s been a hard year so I’m glad that it’s all over now”.
