40% gained passes in the top grades. At least half the students taking courses in Business, Geography, French, Further Maths, Maths, RE, Sociology gained an A or B pass The strongest performances this year came in Drama (80%), Food (75%) and Textiles (100%) which gained the higher level grades for nearly all the students who took the course.
There was a 100% pass rate in 21 out of the 25 subjects on offer.
Eight students achieved three or more A grades, three of these gaining a remarkable four A grade passes.
At AS Level, 33% achieved A or B grades whilst 98% gained a pass. The introduction of the new AS Critical Thinking course for Y11 students produced excellent results with a 100% success rate. This achievement was repeated across a further 18 subjects and shows the impact of the raising achievement programme at the school.
Chris Long (Director of 14-19) said:" I want to congratulate all our students receiving their A and AS results who have worked so hard to achieve their success. We are also delighted with performances in the Advanced Extension Award (AEA), STEP (Sixth Term Entry Paper) and BMAT (Cambridge Medicine) exams. The student taking the AEA in English achieved a Distinction, scoring 58 out of a possible 60 marks.š Our two STEP students achieved high passes to gain highly sought after places at Warwick University while the student who took the BMAT paper achieved one of the highest marks in the country to get a place studying medicine at Cambridge.These individual successes underline the strong desire in our sixth form to do well."