Well done to our Year 11 cohort, who today had the pleasure of opening their results envelopes to unveil a fantastic set of GCSEs. What's especially pleasing is that this group of young people have shown great character and resilience during their time at school, which suffered such disruption in the summer of 2020 and the spring of 2021. I'm very proud of their achievements, particularly given that they have achieved much success whilst studying three separate sciences, two foreign languages and at least one humanities subject alongside Mathematics and both English and English Literature. They have risen to the challenge of a strong curriculum and delivered excellent outcomes, including:

• An average grade in all subjects of 7.1
• An Attainment 8 score of 74.8, surpassing the average of the last two comparable years (74.6)
• 44% of all grades being between 9-8
• 68% of all grades being between 9-7
• 51% of students gained 9-7 in their best 8 GCSE subjects
• 25% of students gained 9-7 in 11 GCSE subjects
• 157 (71%) of students achieved 56 points from their best 8 GCSE subjects (equivalent to straight 7s)

Whilst the DfE's usual educational measure, Progress 8, is not being used this year due to a lack of Key Stage 2 data, our internal data calculates that these results would have resulted in a score that would place in the 'Well Above Average' category, and so in the top percentages of schools nationally. This points to our staff and students doing an excellent job in achieving better results than their peers in other schools with similar starting points.

As well as outstanding results across the cohort, many individuals achieved excellent results across all of their subjects. Some notable examples include:

• 3 students achieved 12 grade 9s: Diep Anh Nguyen, Urav Sirohi and Kieran Suresh
• 3 students achieved 11 grade 9s: Lev Griffin, Eva Hewitt and Angela Luong
• 2 students achieved 10 grade 9s: Naima Mendjeli and Daniel Quinn
• 3 students achieved 9 grade 9s: Ritadyumna Jinka, Louis Luckman and Marco Viza-Goghiu
• 4 students achieved 8 grade 9s: Diana Androshchuk, Charlie Furlong, Amber Hicks and Omolade Paul-Taiwo

I'd like to thank the school's teaching staff for their endless work and commitment to the students' outcomes, and also to the parents and carers without whose support the school would not continue to be as successful.

Well done, Year 11. We are very proud of what you have achieved and you should be too.

H.J. Gilmore

Headteacher