PUPILS and staff at The Queen’s School are celebrating another excellent year of GCSEs.
Examination reforms were widely expected to make things much tougher for this year’s
cohort, however the girls’ school pupils rose to the challenge to achieve a superb set of
results.
Well over half of the girls achieved eight or more examinations at the coveted top
grades (grades 9, 8 7 or A*/A).
One in 10 achieved exclusively the top grades (grades 9 or 8 or A*) and almost 30 per cent gained exclusively 9,8,7 or A*/A grades.
A total of 82 per cent were awarded at least one A* grade or equivalent (grades 9 or 8) with 43 per cent of all exams passed at these grades.
A particular mention goes to the following girls who each achieved outstanding individual results:
Maddie Canning (2x9, 1x8, 7xA*), Louise Kiely (4x9, 1x8, 5xA*), Melody Lewis (3x9,
2x8, 5xA*), Anna McBurney (3x8, 7xA*), Meg Rofe (2x9, 3x8, 5xA*), Jasleen Sambhi
(2x9, 3x8, 5xA*), Thea Watts (5x9, 5xA*), Alex Barker (1x9, 3x8, 5xA*,1x7), Katherine
Dawson (1x9, 1x8, 5xA* 3x7), Carmen Garcia-Diaz (2x8, 4xA* 3x7, 2xA), Leah Gough
(2x9, 2x8, 4xA*, 1x7,1xA), Rosa Hall (3x9, 1x8, 5xA*,1xA), Katherine Holden (1x9, 2x8,
3xA*, 2x7, 2xA), Hannah E Jones (1x9, 3x8, 2xA*, 3x7), Erica Long (2x9, 2x8, 4xA*,
2x7), Alice Okell (3x9, 1x8, 5xA*, 1x7), Sophie Paul (2x8, 3xA*, 3x7, 2xA) Louise
Walker (2x9, 3x8, 4xA* 1x7) and Rachel Whitfield (1x9, 1x8, 6xA* 2x7).
Also of note is Eleanor Lloyd Brown (3x8, 3xA*,1xA, 2x7, B), who is the recipient of a
prestigious year’s Arkwright engineering scholarship, Rebecca Scott-Davies (1x8, 1x7,
3xA, 2xB, 1x6, 2x5) who during the lead up to her examinations was also competing
internationally in waterpolo, Rosa Hall who was competing nationally in dressage
competitions as she prepared for examinations and Alison Hughes (1x9, 5x7, 2xA, 2xB)
who has risen through the ranks to sergeant in the CCF and was recently selected to
represent the UK as part of the Baltic Guard tour in Latvia.
Acting headteacher Joanne Keville said: “Yet again this is a fantastic set of results for
our girls who have worked so hard alongside their teachers over the past few months
to hit their individual targets, achieve their full potential and come away with such
fantastic results. Our focus is always on the individual and it is particularly pleasing for
me that the vast majority of our pupils exceeded their target grades, and can be
confident that they have really done their best.
“The girls’ hard work and positive attitude has paid real dividends and these results will
stand them in good stead as they embrace the challenges ahead and navigate the next
all-important two years of their learning journey.”
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