Sussex students get their GCSEs today (From The Argus)
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Sussex students get their GCSEs today
8:02am Thursday 23rd August 2012 in News By Bill Gardner
Today is the day students across Sussex will be nervously opening envelopes to discover their GCSE results.
There will be triumph and tears at schools across the county as the 15 and 16-year-olds learn whether weeks of revision have been worth it.
Follow theargus.co.uk for all the day's breaking GCSE stories and pictures.
Early indicators were good as Brighton College celebrated a bumper set of results.
Every student in Year 11 got at least five GCSEs at grades A* to C including maths and English, and 90.2% of all grades were A* or A.
Headmaster Richard Cairns said: “It is obviously terrific to be the top school in Sussex again and I am delighted for the pupils and teachers whose hard work made this happen.
“They deserve to be partying tonight.”
At Lancing College teachers were also celebrating what they described as “excellent” GCSE results.
One candidate received a clean sweep of eleven A*s while six more achieved ten A*s.
Of all the GCSEs taken 27.9% were awarded the A* grade at the school.
Headmaster Jonathan Gillespie said: “These results reinforce Lancing’s reputation for academic excellence.
“My warm congratulations to our GCSE candidates on their achievements at this stage as well as my best wishes for the two exciting sixth form years ahead.
“These will serve as a powerful springboard for university study and life beyond school.”
Other schools in Brighton and Hove will be hoping for the same level of success, despite the city being amongst the worst-performing authorities in the country.
According to figures compiled by the Department for Education last year just over half of the city’s students gained five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C, including English and maths.
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Comments(6)
MikeyA
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9:54am Thu 23 Aug 12
tabman wrote:Don't forget the usual photogenic collection of young people looking overwhelmed with joy.....
Another advert for self publicising, selective, private schools. Can't wait to announce their triumph despite the fact that "Today is the day students across Sussex will be nervously opening envelopes to discover their GCSE results."
It's all PR and free advertising and The Argus falls for it every time.
oknotko
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10:01am Thu 23 Aug 12
getThisCoalitionOut
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1:16pm Thu 23 Aug 12
By the way if you're thinking of sending your kid/s to this school be warned that officially "Bullying does not exist at this school" - but in reality it does. The school only gets involved when the police are involved such as when death threat texts are sent.
jeremy radvan
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1:45pm Thu 23 Aug 12
MikeyA
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1:45pm Thu 23 Aug 12
getThisCoalitionOut wrote:Just used to get GCE results on a self-addressed postcard. Why the big 'hoo-ha' these days?
My son had to go and collect his results from Willingdon Community School and he's got to go back and collect the certificates too - as usual, I see this school putting it's pupils to extra trouble as they really couldn't care less about them - ONLY the results.
By the way if you're thinking of sending your kid/s to this school be warned that officially "Bullying does not exist at this school" - but in reality it does. The school only gets involved when the police are involved such as when death threat texts are sent.
tabman says...
8:29am Thu 23 Aug 12
It's all PR and free advertising and The Argus falls for it every time.