Record results at Sam Ward
MORE students than ever before have achieved A levels between grades between A and C in what has been another very successful year for Samuel Ward Arts and Technology College.
Not only have 77 per cent of A Levels been passed at C grade or higher this year but the overall level of students passing their exams – 98 per cent – has equalled the college's best-ever number.
Delighted head teacher Howard Lay also emphasised the improvement of the results for the Value Added scores – the A level results measured against the GCSE's achieved by the students – which he anticipates will place them among the five best post-16 schools in Suffolk this year.
A high number of students also gained four A Levels made up of a combination of As and Bs.
Mr Lay added: "We've had really really good results.
"Particularly pleasing is that all our students have got their first choice university places on the back of those results.
"They represent continuing improvement in our post-16 education."
Bob Shepstone, chairman of the school governors, said: "Further progress has been made by the college with some outstanding results reflecting the hard work by students and the quality of teaching on a wide range of A Level courses."
The best performance among the students came from Charlotte Bunting who got four A grades, in English language and literature, history and biology, plus two merits (an extension to standard A Levels) in English literature and history – a first for the college.
Charlotte, who is now off to read English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with a possible view to a career in publishing, said: "I can't really believe it, I don't think it has sunk in yet.
"People don't usually take merits because it means you have an extra three hour exam in each subject, so people don't usually bother."
With three A grades and one AS Level each, Ben Hall and James Miller achieved the next most impressive set of results.
Ben, from Haverhill, will read physics at the University of Leicester after getting top grades in maths, physics and chemistry, and hopes to become a research scientist.
He said: "I was hoping for three As and I got them but the last module, which not a lot of people do very well in, I got a very high A."
James, who lives in Hawkedon, passed English literature, maths and French at grade A and in September starts a degree in French and Spanish at Exeter University.
He said: "They were predicted grades so I'm glad I got them because it was a bit iffy."
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