Best in a decade at Grammar School and Sixth Form Centre

Director of Sixth Form Kieran James announced they had achieved a 99.8% pass rate this year, with over a quarter of the students achieving A* and A grades, and two-thirds of them achieving A* to B grades. ‘It’s fantastic, just incredible hard work from our students – it also shows the quality of the teaching,’ said Mr James.

‘The students have just done a brilliant job, especially as this is the new reformed A-levels. It’s now a linear two year course, most of them don’t have any course work in them and they aren’t modular so they can’t retake modules.

‘We are really delighted, we are absolutely over the moon.’

Pieter Durman, 18, is heading to the University of Cambridge to study natural sciences after getting the necessary grades to get into the current highest ranking university in the UK.

‘I got two A*s and an A,’ he said. ‘It just doesn’t feel real yet, I had kind of convinced myself I hadn’t got in. The A was in chemistry, it’s a hard subject.’

Cameron Ashplant, 18, was thinking of alternative universities because he was sure he had not achieved the grades to get his first choice.

‘I got two A*s and an A, in geography, theatre studies and economics,’ he said. ‘I applied for Durham, I was a little unsure if I would get in or not but I’ve done it.

‘It’s been a long wait but I only really started thinking about it this week.

‘I am really happy, they have a great theatre society there. I will be studying human geography.’

Rosie Lewis, 18, achieved a 7 in IB Spanish, which is equivalent to an A*, an A* in French and an A in geography.

She will be studying geography at Manchester University, with a year in Spain.

‘Geography is my passion, but I didn’t want to lose my languages so it will be a year abroad studying at a university there,’ she said.

‘I am a bit disappointed with the geography grade, but French is better than I thought it would be.’