GCSE results an improvement on pre-pandemic performance
THE first set of post-Covid GCSE results saw Bailiwick schools improving their performance since the last time students sat external exams in 2019.
Overall, 67.2% of students across the Bailiwick achieved at least five 9-4 (A*-C) grades including English and maths.
In the last pre-Covid examinations in 2019, 63.9% of students attained these grades.
Education, Sport & Culture said that England’s exams regulator Ofqual had called 2022 a transition year, with grades more in line with pre-pandemic results than with the highs of the last two years.
‘Today’s results show just how much effort all of the island’s students at level 2 and GCSE have put into their studies in the last two years,’ said Deputy Bob Murray, vice-president of ESC.
‘After years of learning and teaching in an environment that was anything but normal, on behalf of the committee, I’d like to congratulate each and every student who received their envelopes this morning, for overcoming those challenges.
‘I hope their results reflect the work they have put in. I’d also like to thank teaching staff for their hard work in helping our students through these difficult times and ensuring they can deliver when it comes time to put pen to paper in an exam hall.’
Liz Coffey, executive principal of the Secondary School Partnership, added: ‘After the difficulties of the last few years, the group of students receiving their results today can be very proud of themselves for their hard work. They have shown resilience and perseverance, and hopefully that will be reflected in their results.’
Of all States schools the Grammar had the highest percentage of 9-7s including English and maths at 97.3%. St Anne’s in Alderney achieving 81.8%.
There was a good year, too, for Le Murier, with its Year 11 students earning accreditations and qualifications in functional skills, Asdan, City & Guilds and BTec from entry level to level 2.
At The Ladies’ College, 74% earned 9-7s (A* to A equivalents) in their subjects, but principal Daniele Harford-Fox said this was just one of their achievements.
‘Results are one thing but this isn’t an exam factory and I’m more proud of the students and their independence as their education has been reinvented due to the pandemic,’ she said.
Results for students at The Guernsey Institute will be published in October in line with England. School leaders will now analyse the results under the new Guernsey Attainment 8 system and their results will be published in January, alongside England’s.
n While they are not directly comparable, a 4 in the new grading system is roughly equivalent to a C Grade, and a 7 is roughly equivalent to an A.
