PUPILS at Woolston High School, Warrington – due to be closed next year – set new records when the GCSE O Level results were announced.
An impressive 63 per cent of pupils achieved the gold standard of five or more A*-C grades, including English and Mathematics.
This smashes the school’s previous best result of 56 per cent.
Headteacher Jill Robinson welcomed the results “success following success.”
She said: “It keeps on coming and these results are well deserved by pupils who enjoy learning in a school that continues to set high standards and expectations.
“Congratulations to all the staff for the excellent learning environment they provide and a very special thank you to all parents and carers for their continued support and encouragement”
The academic year started with an excellent Ofsted report which judged the school to be “Good” with 12 “Outstanding”.
The year ends with further confirmation that Woolston Community High School staff, parents and pupils are working together to achieve excellent academic results, the head added.
Last year, the Department for Education named the school as one of the Top 40 in England for sustained improvement.
There were also celebrations at Warrington’s Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School, where, once again, results were the best ever with 67 per cent of pupils gaining the equivalent of five or more A*-C grades, with 47 per cent including English and Maths- 6 per cent up on last year.
There were many excellent individual results. The most outstanding came from Sarah Ash, Merryn Dowson, Alex Roberts, Matthew Simcock and Brendan Spencer.
Top of the class though was Megan Booth with 11 A* and two A grades, the highest any pupil has achieved.
Daryl Jones made the most positive change since his primary school days, making tremendous progress to achieve eight good passes, including Maths and English. Adam Chen had just two years to learn English, and still managed four A* grades as part of a set of excellent results.
Headteacher John Sharples thanked the staff for the way they had prepared the students for the exams. He also credited parents for all their support and encouragement but said that it was the young people themselves who deserved recognition for this success.
He said: “The events of this summer have led some to criticize young people, but these students have grown to be fantastic citizens. Now they have gained excellent qualifications, and their skills and attitude are sure to bring them further successes in the future, in both education and employment. We will miss them and we wish them well.”
Pictured: Jubilant pupils at Woolston High.
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Well done to all on their excellent results. Isn’t it time that the council realised and admitted that they have, and still are, making a very bad decision in closing Woolston High. Surely the DFeS could do something to overturn the decision if they rated as one of the top 40 in England for sustained improvement last year and it’s improved again since then. Maybe it could become an Academy and remain open that way. Anyway like I said WELL DONE to all the kids and schools and colleges on what appears to be another record breaking year for excellent results……………………….. And for those who may not have got the results they had hoped for and are upset… just keep working hard, you can always re-take them and it’s not the end of the world. Chins up, onwards and upwards 😉
Excellent news! Well done to all concerned. I hope that Councillor Woodyatt and her colleagues can sleep at night following the very bad decision to close this very good school. Is there anything that can be done to reverse this decision. Could we note petition the DfE for help?
I’m yet to see why the council are closing this school down. Money is no object when you are putting it towards an outstanding school such as this.
I’m yet to see similar news coming from Lysander or Birchwood – the suggested schools children can go to as an alternative to Woolston.
Well done to Woolston High School for its outstanding performance in GCSE results. Let’s hope this school remains open in some way or other and continues to beat the other schools.
In the mean time…
There may be a light at the end of the tunnel – Kings School Woolston – the proposed plan to open a Free School in Woolston High’s place. The community has spoken! – For more information visit: http://www.woolstonacademy.co.uk/
Thanks all 🙂
Just shows the government now backs Woolston High school
http://www.woolstonacademy.co.uk/
The academy has been give the go ahead 🙂
This should be the front page news