Hot on the heels of last week’s record-breaking A-levels, the award-winning independent school is celebrating once again, following their pupils’ excellent GCSE results.
A very pleased Headmaster, Michael Getty commented: “The pupils deserve so much credit. They are such a hardworking cohort. Some of the percentages involved are genuinely outstanding, with such an abundance of top grades. Ten pupils secured straight grade 8s and 9s, with four pupils receiving a clean sweep of straight 9 grades! These grades are a wonderful reward for their perseverance and commitment, which they have achieved whilst balancing enormously rich extracurricular involvement. We are very, very proud of them!”
A delighted Mr Getty was particularly proud of the wide-ranging nature of the pupils’ success adding: “What is really fantastic, is that our pupils’ hugely impressive grades have been achieved right across the board. With subjects like Religious Studies achieving 61% grades 7-9, in English Language 69%, in Drama it was 80%, and in Fine Art it climbed to 89% with Latin scoring 100%! It is so important that our pupils feel they can access such grades no matter what subject or discipline they pursue. Today is certainly a day for them to celebrate!”
Last week the school celebrated record-breaking A level results with Mr Getty adding: “This GCSE cohort’s results are actually higher than our record breaking A-level cohort’s were two years ago, so we are very excited indeed to see if they can set their own records in the future!”
NULS’ outstanding results window arrives as the school continues to receive national acclaim, after being awarded the accolade ‘Best UK Independent School’ in the national Independent Education Awards last year, leading Staffordshire in the prestigious 2026 Sunday Times Parent Power league tables and being graded as Staffordshire’s best value for money Independent School by The Daily Telegraph in recent weeks.
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