Pupils celebrate another excellent year of A level results

Pupils at the King’s School are celebrating their A Level results today with a 98% pass rate, and over 50% of the grades are A*, A or B.

Headmaster, Mr David Morton, stated ‘I am delighted to celebrate these wonderful results today with our talented Upper Sixth pupils. Despite the challenging new A Level exam papers, our students have performed extremely well. Not only have they worked hard to gain such good academic results, they are also talented all-rounders who offer many other skills as well. Many of our Upper Sixth pupils spent their summer in India or China on school expeditions, or are about to embark on exciting Gap year programmes and apprenticeships.’

Specific highlights include Amira Nandhla and Edward Chan who have met their offers to study Oxford and Cambridge Universities.  Amira achieved A*, A, A, A grades and will read History at Cambridge, she was also voted ‘Young Ambassador of the Year’ at the 2018 Believe in Gloucester awards. Ed achieved A*, A, A grades and will read Classics and Oriental Studies at Oxford, as well as holding a Choral Scholarship.

Also, 100% of the pupils studying BTEC Sport Science achieved D*D*D* - the equivalent of three A*s at A Level.

Aside from academic results, all pupils have benefited from a broad King’s education to prepare them for life after school. They have been superb role models and have supported the school and wider community.

Subjects which are being dropped in the maintained sector still flourish at King’s. There were superb results with all pupils achieving B grades or better in Modern Languages, Art, Photography, Music and Theatre Studies, as well as Classical Civilisations, Greek and Latin.

Students will move on to a wide range of post-18 pathways, ranging from Classics, Biological Sciences and Geography to Policing, Midwifery and we also have one pupil, Rebecca Hamilton, who will go on to study Blacksmithing and Metalwork, becoming one of a small number of female blacksmiths in the UK.