VIDEO: Delight as students collect their A-level results
Students from across the Observer area have been jumping for joy after collecting their A-level results today (Thursday, August 11).
Schools and colleges have been celebrating bumper results, with students mirroring the national picture of one in four A-level entries awarded the top A grade this year.
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Full reports:
Bishop Luffa School
Bognor Regis Community College
Chichester College
Chichester High School Sixth Form
Felpham Community College
Lavant House School
Midhurst Grammar School
Seaford College
St Philip Howard High School
The Weald School
For more pictures and reports from these and other schools see next week's Observer on sale August 21.
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MAPBishop Luffa School
Bishop Luffa Sixth Form students are today celebrating record-breaking A-level results.
The group of 135 students achieved a 99 per cent pass rate for all the exams entered, 57 per cent of which were awarded grades A or B. Both results set new records for the school.
Zach Blunden-Codd gained five straight A grades – in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Further Maths, and in an additional Maths AS.
He also gained the top grade in two extension papers, designed help universities to distinguish the most able students.
Zach is currently spending nine weeks in Uganda on a charity project, and returns to study Physics at Durham University.
Headteacher, Nick Taunt, said, "This has been a year group with real character.
"I am delighted that our students have done so well and would like to congratulate them on their results. We were expecting great things from them, and we set high academic targets.
"They have exceeded even our high aspirations, and their commitment to the community and to each other has been impressive. They are a very talented and thoughtful group of young people.
"They all worked very hard, as demonstrated by the fact that over 81% of all the exam entries were awarded grades A-C.
"Outstanding results such as these are not easy to come by: they reflect students' determined and sustained commitment to their studies, and the strong support offered them by their families.
"They also bear witness to the very positive relationship that exists between students and their teachers.
"I also congratulate the teachers who have guided and supported our students in such an outstanding way."
Head of sixth form Adam Osborne said the year group had been a pleasure to work with.
"Almost all students have gained their first choices at university. About twenty students are spending gap years in Ghana, Chile, New Zealand, Zambia, Kenya and Honduras," he said.
Other high-flyers included:
Stuart Stokes gained four straight A grades, also in the Sciences and Maths and goes on to read Medicine at Sheffield.
A further 11 students gained three A grades: Jessica Bannister (Warwick, Law and Sociology), Stephen Courtney (Kent, History), Jessica Ellis (Bristol, Medicine,), Ben Hanton (Bath, Sport and Exercise Science), Becky Holden (Keele, Physiotherapy), Sarah McDonald (Notts, English and Theology), Simon Morgan (Theatre School London, Art Education), Lydia Stables (Gap Year) Catherine Stimpson (York, PPE), Jessica Wong (Downing College Cambridge to read Medicine), and Ellie Worley (Loughborough, Retail Management).
A further 17 students gained at least two A grades: Jordan Abbott, Rachael Brooks, Joanna Davies, Josephine Gibson, Charlie Hammans, Sophie Mabbitt, Kate Mahoney, Ali McNeil, Joely Mead, Bethany Mercer, Georgina Morgan, Charlie Poyner, Andrew Shaw, Hugh Stimpson, Edward Terry, Chris West and Susan Zwinkels.
Sam Albanie goes to Magdalen College Oxford to read Engineering, and Jessica Wong to Downing College Cambridge to read Medicine.
In addition to Stuart Stokes and Jessica Ellis, a further three students are going on to read medicine: Rachael Brooks (Manchester), Jonny Ramsden, (Molecular Medicine at Sussex) and Lucy Thomas (UCL).
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MAPBognor Regis Community College
The best A Level results over the past five years are today (Thursday, August 14) being celebrated at Bognor Regis Community College.
The success of Sixth Form students was spear-headed by James Hyde whose four 'A' grades in Mathematics, Physics, Further Mathematics and Critical Thinking have won him a place at St John's College, Oxford University.
Other students who gained over 225 points were Ben Archer, Lucy Cropp, Daniel Glasspool, Benjamin Gough, Emma Jewell, Kayla Mulcahy, Andrew Roberts, Henry Sheldon and Kelly Weeks.
The college achieved its highest ever pass rate of 95% as well as the largest number of A and B grades in recent years. The average points score per student was 188.
As well as success in A Levels BRCC students enjoyed outstanding results in BTEC courses in music and outdoor pursuits with a total of nine distinctions.
Headteacher, David Jones, said: "This is a hugely encouraging set of results from a cohort of young people who made an invaluable contribution to the College.
"I am immensely proud of their achievements and delighted to see them progressing to a range of prestigious University and College Courses across the UK.
"They are a credit to themselves, their parents, and their teachers."
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MAPChichester College
Two Chichester College students are at the top of the table after both achieved one of the top five marks for the subject in the country.
Roger Pocock was in the top five for English Language out of 4061 students nationally and Ka Kei Mok was in the top five for Pure Maths.
This year Chichester College's students have shone again with a 96 per cent pass rate for A-levels and 67 achieving A to C grades.
And 22 subjects are really celebrating as 100 per cent of their students passed.
Science and Maths had a great year with every student taking A-levels in Human Biology (13), Physics (26), Maths (74), Further Maths (21) and Pure Maths (4) passing.
Language students also had excellent results with a 100% pass rate for French (12), Spanish (9), Russian (4) and Chinese (30).
Chichester College has a great track record in creative subjects and this year was as good as ever. 26 students taking a variety of Art and Design A-levels all passed.
In Music and Performing Arts, 26 Music and 17 Drama students all passed, making this the third year in a row that these subjects have achieved a 100 per cent pass rate.
Student Stories:
Daryl Collins, had a fantastic result with straight A grades and is off to University College London to study Medicine. This is a particularly special achievement as it is very competitive to get into Medicine and UCL is one of the best courses in the UK. Darryl's family are thrilled, especially as he is the first person from their family to go to university.
Alla Barford, who has an offer from Cambridge to read Law, achieved 3 A grades and will be off to Cambridge in the autumn. Alla has worked hard for this as 5 years ago she arrived from Russia and didn't speak English. She went to Bognor Regis Community College and not only learnt English but achieved the second best GSCE results in the school and now she has a perfect A level score.
Oliver Campbell, came to Chichester College when he decided that he would come back to education and take his A- levels. He has been rewarded for all his hard work with 3 A grades.
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MAPChichester High School Sixth Form
After months of study and sleepless nights students at Chichester High Schools Sixth Form are today (Thursday, August 14) celebrating some fantastic A level results.
The Sixth Form recorded an overall pass rate of 99 per cent and an impressive increase in last year's A and B grades to 49 per cent and 77 per cent A to C with many exceeding their targets.
The average point scores for the pupils were 183.09 for year 12 and 385.95 for year 13.
And thirteen students attained an amazing As all round with Jack Arnhold and Ben Smithers gaining the top grades in five subjects and Alice Puchades and Harriet Dewhurst in four.
The school also voiced its congratulations as well to Natasha Rorrison, Emma Mitchell, Becky Rae, Mary-Ann Osgood, Olivia Sawday, Oliver Wilks, Ben Marchant, David Guy and Jenna Dugan for achieving A grades in all their subjects.
"It's been a fantastic year", said Maddie McGuffin, head of sixth form.
"Our students are enjoying an impressive set of results and have a sound basis for their next stage.
"Many are now off to university or taking a gap year and have exciting futures ahead of them.
"These results are a real credit to their hard work, the teaching and guidance from their teachers and the support from their parents."
Student amongst top ten in country
Some impressive results were recorded at AS as well and Chichester student Tais Romagosa Bowles was amongst the top ten students, according to Edexcel, the UK's largest examining body.
Tais sat the Spanish exam earlier this summer at Chichester High School for Girls and her result shows that out of 3,857 candidates, Tais achieved one of the highest overall marks.
Edexcel's managing director, Jerry Jarvis, said: "This is a tremendous achievement and testament to the hard work students put into preparing for their exams.
"We send our congratulations to Tais."
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MAPFelpham Community College
History was in the making at Felpham Community College which is celebrating its best ever A Level results.
Across the board, all the measures were up on last year with the percentage of pass grades was 96 per cent and the percentage of A and B grades was 43 per cent an increase of ten per cent on last year.
A range of subjects, including English Literature, Maths, Further Maths, Art and Design and History, posted over half the grades at A or B.
Headteacher Peter Cook, said: "These results maintain the college's tradition of exceptional performance in Years 12 and 13 and I want to pay tribute to staff and students alike for their tremendous effort.
"This can only be achieved when highly professional teachers work alongside well motivated students, both focused on success"
The average points score both by student and by entry was also well up on last year.
The AS results for Year 12 students showed a similar pattern with the overall pass rate increasing to 92 per cent and the percentage of A and B grades up by four per cent.
Of particular interest were the results in AS Law. This is a distance learning course using the college video-conferencing facilities and two-thirds of the students got an A grade.
Staff at the college are really pleased that the students' hard work has been rewarded.
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MAPMidhurst Grammar School
Celebrations are being had at Midhurst Grammar School with today's A Level results equalling its best ever performance.
Today's (Thursday, August 14) equal the record results of 2006 and show a marked improvement on last year with 94 per cent of entries achieving a pass, with 42 per cent achieving an A to B grade – an improvement of over 13 percentage points on last year.
The school said that the average point score per student was 204.5 and represents excellent value added, as students have performed well against prior attainment at GCSE.
It has also doubled the number of A grades since last year.
Acting headteacher Helen Beauchamp said: "We are very proud of all of our students.
"These academic results are very pleasing and reflect the Grammar School's continuing drive for improvement.
"They represent a lot of hard work and the students and staff are to be congratulated for their commitment and success."
Chairman of governors, Nick Mitchell, also added heaped congratualtions on the A Level students.
He said: "It is wonderful to see that our students are now getting results that reflect the hard work and dedication of everyone at school during the last two years."
The school also made special mention should of Sarah Archibald, Bob Larking, James Lowe and Bex Page who gained A grades in all their subjects.
Jessica Warren also achieved A grades in all her A2 and AS subjects after returning to full time study at the grammar school at the start of Y13.
Emily Alderton, Katie Longley, Megan Deeney, Harry Dzenis, Alice Newman and Jonathan Pett all achieved A's and B's.
Emily Alderton is delighted that she can continue her studies at University College London where she will be studying Zoology.
James Lowe and Bob Larking will be reading Philosophy at St Andrew's University.
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MAPSt Philip Howard Catholic High School
HARD work by pupils and invaluable support from staff has helped St Philip Howard achieve another crop of bumper A Level results.
Headline figures for A level students include:
• 30 per cent of year 13 students achieved entirely A and B grades
• 50 per cent of results are at grades A or B and 76 per cent at A to C
• Students achieved an overall 'A' level pass rate of 97 per cent.
Headline figures for AS students include:
• 55 per cent of results are at grades A or B
• Five Year 12 students achieved straight A grades — three of those students in five subjects
• Nearly 20 per cent of all students gained entirely A and B grades
"Undeniably the students and their teachers have worked exceptionally hard again this year," headteacher David Todd said.
"Students have been given tremendous support by teachers both in lessons and through mentoring by tutors."
AS results were outstanding this year. Students have had just over two terms to reach this advanced standard and usually at this stage results reflect this increase in difficulty from GCSE.
Mr Todd said: "Our students have performed magnificently, however, and their current achievement augurs very well for the full A level next year."
"School Sixth Form life has so much to offer the students and they provide so much for the whole school community.
"There are many demands on the students' time to be involved in activities such as mentoring younger students or Duke of Edinburgh Award or our production of the 'Hot Mikado' at the Chichester Festival Theatre or fundraising for charity – as well as their academic work.
"We are delighted therefore, that despite the workload our students have been justly rewarded with some excellent results."
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MAPThe Weald School
PRAISE has been heaped on Weald students who have been celebrating top A Level grades.
The pass rate is 98 per cent and with half the entries at grade A or B, and 72 per cent at A to C, the results are strong.
The average points per student is the best ever with 330 UCAS points or 802 QCA points for each candidate.
Results in Maths, Further Maths, Art & Design, Drama, French, Spanish, Sociology, Health & Social Care and Music were very strong. There were many outstanding performances across the whole Year Group, with 11 students achieving three grades A or more.
Particular praise should go to Joe Berwick, Ursula Heath, Sam Lowden and Oliver Taylor, all with four grades A or more.
Ursula Heath and Louisa Jones confirmed their places at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford respectively.
Nicola Batchelor deserves congratulations for her outstanding performance as one of the best ten performers in her Art & Design subject nationwide.
Headteacher Peter May said: "It is pleasing to see so many students do so well – it is a credit to all of them as well as the hard work of their teachers and the support of their parents".
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MAPSeaford College
Headmaster at Seaford College Toby Mullins told the Observer the girls had had their best results ever at the college with 62 per cent of exams being at grades A or B.
"The top boys got straight As as we had expected," he said.
"But there were a lot of boys results in the middle set of grades this year - a lot of boys came out with C grades."
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MAPLavant House School
It was a case of the A team at Lavant House School with its sixth formers celebrating bumper results.
Upper Sixth girls achieved an average score of three A levels plus one AS per candidate. 60 per cent of grades were A and B, with 26 per cent at grade A, in a range of 17 subjects.
The girls did particularly well in English Literature and Media Studies, with very good grades, too, in the Sciences, History and Art.
The headmistress, Marian Scott, was delighted with the girls' successes.
"Each Lavant House Sixth former is an individual who is encouraged and supported to achieve her very best, and these results show how well the girls have responded."
All the girls have university places and will be going on to study a wide variety of courses, including Pharmacy, History with Modern Languages, English, Media Production, Interior Design and Business Management.
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