IT WAS all smiles down at Tripton Road this morning as St Mark’s celebrated continued exam success at GCSE.

58% of students gained 5 or more GCSE’s at A* to C (inc. English and Maths). A 5% improvement on last year. This is even more remarkable considering the changes that have been made by the government.

Nineteen pupils achieved at least 5 A*/A; 74 pupils achieved at least 1 A*/A; 55 pupils achieved the English Baccalaureate and 100% of pupils achieved at least one GCSE grade.

The Headteacher, Elaine Heaphy, commenting on the results, stated “I am delighted that the hard work of our Year 11 pupils and their teachers has been rewarded with such a good set of GCSE results. I am proud of every pupil in accepting and meeting the challenges that we at St Mark’s continually strive to provide for each of them.

“We promote an academic Key Stage 4 curriculum which enables them to go onto ‘A’ level and post 16 studies. I look forward to welcoming this year group of pupils back, along with many new pupils, into our Sixth Form for the new academic year.”   

There were many examples of outstanding individual performances with most of our pupils not only achieving their target grades but a number exceeding them. The following pupils all achieved at least 5 A*/A grades (numbers indicate number of A* – C passes and the numbers in brackets indicate the number of A*/A).

Wing Lau 13 (11); Katie Day 10 (10); Thomas Robinson 10 (10); Ashica Joshy 10 (10); Melissa Selwood 10 (9); Priya Panchal 11 (9); Katie Millar 10 (8); Zyeraph Bucalan 10 (8); Jesvin Xavi 10 (8); Ifeoluwa Odubela 10 (7); Charlie Gasson 10 (7); Adesuwa Ehigie-Obano 10 (6); Georgia Nimmo 10 (6); Joe Brett 10 (6); Caroline Nguyen 10 (6); Faye Arguelles 10 (5); Robert Leslie 10 (5); Fatima Farhan 11 (5); Anusha Halder 10 (5)