Friday, 22 November 2013

Year 9 and 10 Students Blaze A New Trail!

When we opened The Academy two years ago, one of our core aims was to raise our students’ aspirations and challenge them to achieve more than they ever thought possible. This was the thinking that lay behind our radical approach to curriculum design: we wanted our students to work towards achievement in GCSE as soon as we felt they were ready. That is why our personalised curriculum allows some of our students to sit GCSEs in Year 9 and Year 10 in subjects at which they excel.


This year saw the first results from students who had taken one year GCSE options in Years 9 and 10. These students had been studying their specialist subjects for five hours a week - twice as much teaching time as a typical GCSE student - and have achieved some stunning results.  Pride of place goes to four Year 9 students: Kymara Akinpelumi (Drama), Alex Brownjohn (Media Studies), Bradley Clarke (History) and Sebastian Freke-Morin (French) who, remarkably, have gained A* grades at the age of only 14. Their results are among 20 passes at A and above by Year 9 students.


Not to be outdone, our Year 10 students notched up 41 passes at A and A* in subjects as diverse as Biology, Drama, Art, French, Geography, History, IT, Media Studies, Music and Spanish,  and a stunning 200 at C and above. These students have shown that it is possible to achieve remarkable things if we raise our aspirations and continually strive to make our best even better.  They have laid the foundations which will enable them to do remarkable things next year and have set an outstanding example for the rest of our students as we encourage them to be relentless in their pursuit of excellence. We are very proud of them all.

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