Students at Newcastle-under-Lyme School were celebrating today after receiving excellent GCSE results, despite national fears of post pandemic downgrading. Results once again hit the highest of levels with a very pleased Headmaster Michael Getty commenting, ‘The students deserve so much credit. These grades are a wonderful reward for their perseverance and hard work during the challenges presented by the pandemic and more recently the national pressures to downgrade. We are very, very proud of them!’
Mr Getty continued, ‘What is incredible, is that the students achieved these grades whilst balancing enormously rich extracurricular involvement, and that these performance levels have been seen, not just in core subjects like English and Chemistry, but also in subjects like French, Music and Art and Design where 78%, 80% and a stunning 100% of grades were awarded Grade 7, 8 or 9. Our pupils deserve great credit for their resilience and hard work and we are delighted when they receive just reward!’
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