Students at All Saints RC School, which is located in Mill Mount, are celebrating excellent results across the board, with 35% of their A-level grades coming in at A*/ A – an increase on last year’s 33%.
Headteacher Sharon Keelan-Beardsley expressed her pride for the cohort and called them the pride of the community – with a ‘significant number of our students overcoming adversity’ to excel academically.
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She said: “Achieving 35% of grades at A */ A and an average grade of B across the year group is a phenomenal accomplishment, and there are many amazing individual achievements.
“Success for our young people has been the results of sheer hard work and determination, unwavering support from staff and a strong partnership between school, student and home.
“All Saints once again proves that with ambition and dedication, extraordinary results are possible and whatever our young people go on to do, we are proud of each and every one of them.
Amongst the students celebrating is Thibault Duckett, who achieved an incredible three A*s, and is set to head up to Edinburgh where he will be studying History and Politics.
He joked: “My brother’s already up there, so I’m not getting rid of him. He’s told me that I can have the north half of the city, and he’ll take the south.”
He’s joined by friends Alex Antrobus and Myles Smith, who also got their grades, and are preparing to head off to university.
Archie said: “I was not expecting my grades at all at all, I can’t remember exactly what my predicted grades were but I’ve definitely done better – it’s a nice big jump.
“As for my course, I was going through the courses in Northern unis as I knew I wanted to stay up here. I was looking through and saw this was a good fit with the subjects I did.
“I’ve always been passionate about aid work and wanting to work in humanitarian response, so it all worked together really nicely.”
He said: “I was planning to come back last year to do politics – I swapped my maths a-level to do politics – but due to all the stuff at home, I didn’t do well and decided to resit my other subjects too.
“I had to have a big hard think about what to do and if I really wanted to this course. I decided to stick with it, persevered with studying, and made new friends this year. I’m so excited for uni – I’m a big Man United fan and my family are all over in Manchester too.”
His proud parents said that they were so pleased for him, and staff members praised both his incredible reliance and his strong morals that he had led him to the university course that he chose.
