GCSE results: Exceptional results recorded at South Notts Academy, Radcliffe

South Nottinghamshire Academy, Radcliffe, achieved an exceptional set of GCSE results with subjects and individual students achieving outstanding grades.

In the last week, the government and Ofqual jointly agreed to revert to centre assessment grades, which are the grades which schools and colleges assessed students were most likely to have achieved, had exams gone ahead.

However, if students’ calculated grades (generated by the exams regulator Ofqual, which used a formula based on schools and prior grades) were higher than the centre assessment grade, their calculated grade will stand.

Dan Philpotts, headteacher, said: “This has been an extraordinarily difficult year for young people and they have had to face many challenges including not being able to take their exams.

"The process of generating centre assessed grades was both rigorous and robust and we are pleased that students have been rightly rewarded for their endeavours and work ethic.

"As a school, we continue to go from strength to strength with another set of fantastic results."

The school is still waiting for examination results from Cambridge National qualifications, but results will not go any lower and may be increased, and the exam board has delayed the publication of BTEC results.

Many individual Year 11 students secured outstanding results including two students who gained a full suite of the highest grades.

Bethan Evans gained nine grade 9s and Alfie Watson gained eight grade 9s.

Other students who gained fantastic outcomes were Abbie Bowman with five grade 9s, three 8s and one 6, Mac Hendrick secured six grade 9s and two grade 8s, and Harrison Dear got three grade 9s, three 8s and three 7s.

James Bennett secured three grade 9s, two 8s and three 7s; Hannah Burnham got six 9s, two 8s and one 6; Alice Smith secured five grade 9s, three 8s, and one 7.

GCSE headline figures include:

• Best ever Progress 8 score

• 100% pass rate

• Out of nearly a thousand total grades awarded, 32% were graded 9-7 and 82% were graded 9-4.

• 78% of students secured a grade four in English and maths. 55% of students secured a grade five in English and maths.

Individual subject areas continue to be outstanding.

Subjects that secured the highest percentage of 9-4 grades (or equivalent) are as follows:

Biology 100%, fine art 100%, art digital 100%, computer science 100%, German 100%, physical education 100%, Spanish 100%, media 100%, BTEC performing arts 100%, BTEC sport 96%, chemistry 93%, physics 93%, English language and iterature 87%, maths 80%.

A full round-up of results can be found here.