9:14am Tuesday 24th August 2010
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SCHOOLS in South Bucks are reporting yet another impressive year of GCSE results.
Once again, record grades are expected across the country, with results having risen every year since the exams began.
At Cressex Community School, which saw pupils pick up their results from its newly built site, 36 per cent of students got five A-C grades including English and Maths. This is up 11 per cent on last year’s figures.
And 50 per cent of pupils got five A-C grades in a variety of subjects, which is up from 32 per cent last year.
Head teacher David Hood said: “We’re very pleased – these are very encouraging results. The students have done brilliantly and we’re now looking forward to moving into our fantastic new school.”
At John Hampden Grammar School 99 per cent of pupils got results between A* and E, 98 per cent clocked five A* to C with english and maths, while 79 per cent achieved A* to B.
Head teacher Stephen Nokes said: “They’ve done extremely well. It’s a very tough year and a tough market out there so we’re very pleased with what they have done.”
John Hampden Grammar School
Wycombe High School announced another record year of results with 75 per cent of pupils achieving A* to A results and 35 per cent getting A*.
All 180 students gained five A* to C grades in cluding maths and english, on par with last year.
Head teacher Sharon Cromie said: “The results are truly outstanding. Our students and staff have worked tremendously hard for well-deserved results. They reflect the abilities and dedication of our students.”
Wycombe High School
At Princes Risborough School in Merton Road, 67 per cent of pupils got grades A* to C. This figure has risen from 43 per cent over the last five years. Including English and Maths the pass rate is 50 per cent which is up 11 per cent in the last five years.
The school is a technology college and in Design and Technology more than 75 per cent of pupils got A* to C and in the separate sciences more than 90 per cent of students achieved more than 90 per cent.
Associate head teacher Sue Collings said: “We are very much a school who works in partnership with everyone. We are very pleased with the results and absolutely thrilled.
“It’s down to the hard work and dedication of students, parents, governers, teaching staff and support staff.” More than 70 pupils have decided to go to the sixth from at the school.
Adam Stone, 16, from Naphill and Walters Ash said: “I surprised myself and got Cs and Ds. I wasn't expected to do as well because I didin't work as hard as I could have.
“The school has really helped. The support has been excellent. I had noconfidence but the school built up my confidence in exams.”
See next Friday's Bucks Free Press (Sep 3) for our exams supplement, including thousands of student names and grades.
Eleanor Ludlow, 16, from Downley got As and A*s. She has already taken an A-Level in Classics and received a B.
She said: “It wasn't what I was expecting- it was what I was hoping for. I want to go to uni and it is just working up to it really.”
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School in Marlow reported 100 per cent of pupils got grades of five A to Cs, including English and Maths. This is up from 99 per cent last year.
Of these, 33 per cent of pupils achieved straight A’s or better while three got straight A stars.
Head teacher Dr Peter Holding said: “These results are on a par with record years, so I’m extremely pleased.
"The most important thing is all these kids are going on to further studies, most of them at Borlase."
Sir William Borlase's pupils.
Chloe Coleman, 16, of Glade Road, Marlow, was one of three pupils who got straight A*s.
She said: "I didn't think I would do so well in physics but I put a lot of effort in so I'm really really pleased.
She is staying on at the West Street school to take English Lit, History, Politics and French at A level.
Will Stanford, 16, from Hurley, also got straight A*s and said: "I opened them up really slowly so I could just see one result at a time. I was going for the straight A*s so I'm really pleased.
He will also stay at Borlase next year and wants to go on and do a law degree at university.
Great Marlow School reported 50 per cent of pupils got five A* - Cs including English and Maths.
This figure is down from 52 per cent last year. Sixty per cent of pupils got five A* - C grades overall.
Great Marlow School.
Headteacher Geralyn Wilson said: "The results are stunning for our most able students - the level of top grades is the highest we've ever achieved.
"I want to congratulate every single student on their personal achievement, especially those ones who had a tricky year."
She said more than 75 per cent of pupils would be returning to Great Marlow for sixth form, which is the highest ever proportion staying on at the Bobmore Lane school.
Andrew Piggin, 16, who lives in The Briars in High Wycombe, got ten A*s and one A.
He said: "I was very nervous this morning but this is as well as I could have expected to do."
"I'm staying here for sixth form and I want to do law at university."
Aishling Hayeman-Rowe, 16, of Willowmead Road in Marlow, is leaving the school to do an the international baccalaureate at Henley College.
She got one A*, four As, two Bs and two Cs and said: "I want to be able to go abroad, so I want to do something that will be recognised in other countries.
Eventually I want to set up my own business in the media industry and want to have the option to do that abroad.
The Royal Grammar School headteacher Roy Page said he was “very pleased” with his students, after 100 per cent of the 210 pupils to sit the exams gained five or more A* to C grades, including English and Maths.
Royal Grammar School
Meanwhile, 80 per cent of pupils at Beaconsfield High School gained A* or A grades, with a number of year ten students sitting their GCSE's a year early.
Beaconsfield High School.
Acting headteacher Owain Johns he was “really pleased” with the overall results and reserved special praise for sitting year tens.
He said: “They should be really proud of what they have achieved a year early. It's quite challenging for them to be doing it now but they have exceeded all our expectations.”
Rosa Wicks said she was “so happy” at achieving ten A*s and two A grades in her exams. The 16-year-old from Beaconsfield said: “It came as a bit of a shock. I felt like I had messed up some of my exams.”
More A* grades than ever before were given out at Dr Challoner's High School, where 16 girls got at least nine of them – up from nine the previous year.
In total, 96 per cent of grades were A*-B, with 67 students at the school in Little Chalfont getting all A*s and A grades.
Among those celebrating was Rosie Nicholls, who achieved eight A* grades and two As.
She said: “I'm very pleased. My dad said, 'What went wrong with the two As?' but he was joking.”
Headteacher Peg Hulse said she was “absolutely delighted” at the results, adding: “They have done astonishingly well. It's always the personal achievements we care about and there are some individuals who have done extraordinarily well.”
The Amersham School had an improvement for the third successive year, with a 70 per cent A*-C pass rate.
Jedrzej Gozdzik took 16 exams and passed them all with A*-C grades, with Ian Sanidad achieving three A*, five A and four B grades and Jessica Haggart getting one A*, five A and five B grades.
Jessica, from Amersham, said: “I was very nervous. I thought I was going to fail most of them.”
Aaron West, 16, battled cancer while studying for his exams (see link, bottom of story).
Headteacher Sharon Jarrett said: “The staff have been absolutely fantastic at getting the best out of each individual.
“I am absolutely thrilled by these excellent GCSE results and would like to pay tribute to all the students and staff who worked so hard.”
There was a 100 per cent success rate at Dr Challoner's Grammar School, with all of the Amersham's 181 boys achieving five A*-C grades.
Of all the results, 95 per cent were A*, A or B grades – another new record.
Four students – Cameron Ford and Harrison Gould from Amersham, James Bristow of Gerrards Cross and Owen Riddall of Chesham Bois – achieved a staggering 13 A*s.
Headmaster Dr Mark Fenton said: “This is an outstanding set of results – the boys have worked hard and deserve their success. This is a proud day for all of them and their families.
“As a school, we are particularly pleased that - once again - every student has achieved five A*-C passes including English and Maths and, in this increasingly competitive world, that nearly 85% of the grades were A*s and As. This is where our boys need to be to compete for places at the top universities.”
At Chesham Park Community College the number of students getting five or more A*-C grades including English and maths was 47 per cent – a ten per cent improvement on last year.
Four students – Annie Graham, Alice Atkinson, Ellie Harrison and Sarah Jeffrey – got five A* or A grades.
Headteacher Kevin Patrick said: “The college results in both the Sixth Form and in GCSE have continued to improve. This is a reflection on the dedicated staff supporting the students and on the tremendous response from all of the students.
“I am absolutely delighted for them and for the team of staff here at the college that have helped our students achieve so much.”
Records tumbled at Beaconsfield School, where the overall A*-C pass rate shot up from 75 to 83 per cent.
Headteacher Nigel Dudding said star performer Stephen Jessop was “staggered” at getting nine A grades and one A* and B grade.
He said: “He put an awful lot of hard work in and it shows hard work pays off.”
Speaking of the school's overall results, Mr Dudding said: “It's a reflection of the hard work put in by the staff and students, but also the parents in supporting their sons and daughters.
“There were lots of tears – most of them tears of joy.”
The Misbourne School in Great Missenden was celebrating another record at GCSE with 71 per cent of its students gaining five A*to C, with more than 54 per cent achieving this in English and Maths.
In 2006 44 per cent of students achieved five A* to C, including maths and English, showing a 10 per cent rise in the last five years.
John Robinson, who took over as headteacher last year, said: “It has certainly been a year of change and consolidation.
“Not only would I like to congratulate all our students on their great achievements but also thank our fantastic staff and the students' parents for their hard work and efforts in supporting our students.”
Oliva Abbott, 16, from Prestwood, got 12 A*s to C. She said: “I am happy. I was kinda wanting an A* in French. I am studying French, ICT, English Language and Sociology at sixth form and I hope to go to uni.”
Wye Valley School in Bourne End reported that 47 per cent of pupils got five or more A* - C grades including English and maths. This is down from 50 per cent last year.
Head of School Jo Rockall said the tally was "less than hoped for", but said the overall result of 77 per cent getting five or more A* - C grades was a record for the school.
She added: "Our students collectively were awarded well over 200 A* or A grades another indicator that results at Wye Valley are on an upward trajectory.
"Students that deserve a particular mention include Rosie Curtis who achieved three A*, seven As and two Bs, Rhian Comley who was awarded four A*s, seven As and one B, and Michael Warren who achieved ten As and one B."
Highcrest Community School
Highcrest Community School is celebrating “amazing results”, after 83 per cent of pupils achieved five A* to C grades.
And 45 per cent of pupils gained five A* to C grades including English and Maths, up from last year's 37 per cent.
Headteacher Sheena Moynihan said: “I'm ecstatic, especially when you consider that around six years ago, when this school was Hatters Lane, we were looking at 13 per cent of pupils – this result is incredible.
“The pupils and the staff have all word extremely hard, I am so pleased for them all. We are building every year but it is going to be hard to top these results next year but we will try our best.”
Sir William Ramsay School headteacher Gaynor Comber hailed pupils after record results, with 48 per cent of students securing A* to C grades with maths and English – up four per cent. 77 per cent of pupils gained five A* to C grades overall.
Mrs Comber said: “Sir William Ramsay’s 2010 GCSE results continue to underline the hard work and commitment of our students and staff.”
At St Bernard's Catholic School in High Wycombe 62.5 per cent of pupils achieved five or more GCSEs in grades A* to C, including English and Maths. In 2006 the pass rate was 32 per cent.
The overall pass rate was 79.5 per cent who achieved five or more GCSEs A* to C.
St Bernard's Catholic School.
Headteacher Robert Simpson said: “Within these figures are some excellent results for individual pupils and subject departments.
“These results are the best ever achieved at St Bernard’s and mark a significant step forward for the school as a whole.”
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