NULS students were jumping for joy today as they secured a superb set of GCSE results, despite national fears of post pandemic downgrading. We have once again seen results hit the highest of levels with over 63% of all examinations awarded the prestigious grades 7-9, 44% at the very elevated grades 8 and 9 and a brilliant 25% at the most prized grade 9!
A delighted Mr Getty commented:
“The students deserve so much credit. These grades are an absolutely wonderful reward for their perseverance and hard work during the challenges presented by the pandemic. To have one in every four GCSEs, securing the highly prestigious grade 9, is hugely impressive. Following last week’s breath-taking and county-topping A Level results, we are absolutely thrilled with how our students have excelled in this summer’s examinations. We are very, very proud of them!”
Mr Getty continued:
“What is incredible, is that the students achieve these grades whilst balancing enormously rich extracurricular involvement and that these performance levels have been seen across the board, not just in Mathematics, Science and English, but also in subjects like Religious Studies, History and Design Technology where 78%, 80% and a stunning 84% of grades were at Grade 7, 8 or 9. Our teaching staff deserve great credit for how skilfully they have guided our students through this challenging period to try to ensure that each and every pupil has realised their potential.”
Newcastle under Lyme School’s youngest pupils have raised over £5000 for Cancer Research UK by completing a sponsored walk ‘from’ Newcastle-under-Lyme to Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.
Louis Bond: “The site of the camp was much larger than I had ever expected. Much of the camp was destroyed, but there were the cabin like structures at the front of the complex which were tiny in comparison to the number of people who were forced to stay in them. At the rear of the
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