GCSE results: Students across Grimsby celebrate record breaking achievements
IT'S "mission accomplished" for GCSE pupils from across Grimsby today, with many schools once again celebrating record breaking results.
Among them is Healing School, where every single student passed five or more GCSEs and 91.3 per cent of students achieved five or more A* to C passes, including maths and English.
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WE DID IT! Healing School pupils celebrating their GCSE results with principal Ann Addison are, from left, Philip Moseley, Jennifer Bates, Olivia Newell, Fauve Topliss and Oliver Kauss. Picture: Jon Corken. Buy this photo at www.thisisphotosales.co.uk/grimsby or by contacting 08444 060910
Principal Ann Addison said it was "mission accomplished", as the results meant that this year's students had easily surpassed last summer's result, which saw 86 per cent of pupils achieving five A* to C grades, including maths and English.
She said: "Since September, we've been encouraging the Year 11s to aim high and beat last year's fantastic achievements.
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"Our mantra has been 'Mission Very Possible' and their mission has been accomplished.
"This is a fantastic set of results, even by the high standards achieved by this school in the past.
"This is a record-breaking year for us and we're incredibly proud of what the students, helped by staff, have achieved."
Across the year group there were some impressive individual performances at the Ofsted-rated "outstanding" school.
Top performer, Oliver Kauss, 16, who will be attending Franklin College, said he is "overwhelmed" with his results.
"I'm so pleased with getting an A in English language and I didn't expect to get an A* in geography because it's not my favourite subject," he said.
"Art has to be my favourite topic and I also love English – I want to be a tattoo artist when I'm older.
"Everyone will be over the moon with my results and so am I."
Another star was Philip Moseley, 16, who achieved A*s in maths and English, amongmany other top results.
He said: "My mum had to pick up my results today because I'm at the Leeds Festival, so I was quite nervous about her seeing them first!
"But I was predicted to do well so I expected these results. I was really nervous about French but I seemed to do ok.
"I thought my results would determine how good the festival would be, and now I've got them I'm having an even better time!
"It means I will be able to go to Caistor Sixth Form to do chemistry, maths and biology – I want to be a doctor."
And Healing pupils were not the only ones with cause for celebration.
Jane Bowman, the principal of Oasis Academy Wintringham, said 45 per cent of students had achieved five A* to Cs including maths and English and a whopping 91 per cent had five A* to C passes to their name.
She said: "We are absolutely delighted with this year's results which show a further improvement overall.
"This is a tremendous result for this particular year group and reflects the hard work and dedication of both staff and students."
Mrs Bowman said she was particularly pleased with her students' achievements in maths, where there was a 12 per cent increase on the number achieving A* to C passes on last year.
She added: "As ever, there were exceptional individual performances – all of which were thoroughly deserved.
"I would like to pay tribute to the staff and students for their commitment and perseverance without which this success would not have been possible.
"We wish all students the very best of luck with the next phase of their learning journey at either college or in the workplace, knowing full well that they have achieved strong foundations on which to build in the future."
The head teacher of Caistor Grammar School, Roger Hale, also described their results as "pretty special", adding that 82 per cent of students had achieved an English Baccalaureate qualification – compared to the national average of 30 per cent – and 100 per cent of GCSE students had achieved a whopping seven A* to C passes, including maths and English.
Full GCSE coverage
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Comments
by porcelainblak
Friday, August 24 2012, 10:14PM
“Take Caistor Grammar out of the equation please, they select their students by the 11plus style selection exams and take approximately the top five per cent academically able students only.
If they can't get 100 per cent pass rate theres summat up. All praise to the comprehensives and academies who get students going in aged 11 who care barely read and write due to having been failed by their primary schools and apathetic even obstructive parents. When they pass GCSE exams, no matter how few, it's time to celebrate.
All students get the exam results they deserve - if they work hard they get good ones, if they mess about at school and don't revise they dont do very well.”
by des22
Friday, August 24 2012, 4:22PM
“It's pointless making comments about the total results across the area, what matters is school by school. Some schools can claim great improvements because their starting point was so far below the nation average. It's good that they are improving but they have a long way to go, especially now that they cannot boost their scores with NVQ subjects and only the basic subjects will count for league tables in future.
The top schools really ought to score well didn't they? If they don't score well above national average then there is something radically wrong in that school. Many of their pupils would learn and pass GCSE regardless of their teachers and most will be staying on in the system for A levels.
Final point - you can't blame the children for the way the exam system works or the teaching they have had. To get a top grade you still need to do some work and it cannot be the child's fault if that work is not the sort it ought to be. The change to examinations as a test of knowledge and application of knowledge will be a good thing in the long run.”
by DaveS1000
Friday, August 24 2012, 3:48PM
“Stop bumping up ratings by clearing your cookies and re-voting on the SAME IP address! We all know you do it! How pathetic and sad! lol”
by Jensen125
Friday, August 24 2012, 3:34PM
“@Jack of Gaunt
What the hell are you talking about? What has this got to do with this thread? And am not really at all concerned with incorrect spelling on here..lol.. I spell correctly when its needed on html coding or any other form of computer language, letters to employment etc as its needed..ps some is the american way as code is american which is highly annoying!...I dont bicker on here about spelling..I get to the point of the news thread!
So back to this is the fact that a) I posted the comment on another news thread and b) I will be paying my tax when I graduate! Just as I was in previous jobs...just decided I want a better life but not here!”
by Gracie
Friday, August 24 2012, 2:56PM
“My son received his results from Healing yesterday and worked very hard for his mixture of A and A* grades.
I get sick and tired of people complaining that GCSE's are too easy and pointless. How do you think this makes these children feel? I hope you are proud of yourselves for belittling and mocking their achievements,no wonder there are so many aimless youngsters around today. I do not know whether exams are easier today or not, from what I have seen they certainly do not look easy and they certainly were not just a bunch of online multiple choice questions as somebody implied, but the children get no influence over any of that and can only sit the exams they are given. Kids today need all the encouragement they can get in this miserable world.
So kindly refrain from crushing their confidence and knocking them down before they have even started, it's cruel, unnecessary and unhelpful.
Congratulations to everybody who got the results they were hoping for yesterday, and Good Luck with your future pursuits.
Let's hope that one day you will all be as educated and intelligent as your critics claim to be, if not as critical, bitter and unfeeling.”
by humberstoner
Friday, August 24 2012, 12:22AM
“I love seeing the disillusioned older folk calling the GCSE exams 'easy'. Maybe kids are just getting more intelligent than you? Students in Grimsby seem to do quite well, after all its their only way of escaping this stagnant hell hole.”
by s_pike
Thursday, August 23 2012, 10:19PM
“Themselves Jack? Hmmmm again another bit from you that doesn't make sense.
Why does anyone need to work hard for GCSE Jack when it involves little knowledge? 'O' Level involved around 70% knowledge and pupils needed to be able to show understanding of that knowledge and apply it to new situations and not by one line answers. What I've seen of published GCSE questions they require less than 20% knowledge and can be distilled down to a simple (very simple) comprehension exercise while projects are probably done by their teacher (try this, alter that, what about……), parents or copy and pasted from the net.
Waste of money.”
by JackofGaunt
Thursday, August 23 2012, 9:51PM
“S.Pike: Both Jensen & Yourself have difficulty expressing themselves clearly. Let us all hope that the successful pupils at Healing and other schools find it easier to put their ideas into words. The pupils with good exam results will have worked hard. Success and access to literacy skills demand hard work. The result is the ability to express ideas clearly. Something that both Jensen and yourself appear to lack.”
by s_pike
Thursday, August 23 2012, 8:21PM
“Well Jack, I'm surprised if you can't make sense of the comments because I was just copying and pasting your dialogue with Jensen123. Search for Jensen and yourself:
http://tinyurl.com/csyasrv
Remember now? Not making sense seems to be a problem for you – bless.”
by JackofGaunt
Thursday, August 23 2012, 6:18PM
“S. Pike. I am afraid that I cannot make sense of your comment! Put your ideas into clear English and we will be able to understand you.”