Howzat! Pupils exceed their expected scores
BEECH Hall School is celebrating a successful batch of GCSE results, this year.
Staff at the school have been impressed with their pupils, with 82 per cent exceeding their predicted results.
Among those impressive grades were a variety of excellent individual results.
Prestbury teenager Sam Thornton-West received 12 GCSEs, with a valueadded score of +7, which meant he achieved 7 grades higher than he was predicted, based on baseline assessment data.
He will now head off to Stockport Grammar to study A-Levels.
Alex Gitlin, 16, joined the school as a latecomer only this Easter, after relocating from London.
Despite this he managed to get six GCSEs with an exceptional valueadded score of +17. He is now going to Macclesfield College to study Aeronautical Engineering.
Sam Timson (16), will be taking his talents to Reaseheath College to study Engineering after receiving a value-added score of +14, despite his late transition to the school in September 2015.
He said: “I’d had a pretty poor time at my previous school and was really anxious about everything. About being in lessons, being in school, teachers, students – everything made me worried. At Beech Hall I began to understand two things about school – that it could be fun, and that we could learn, something that I never really believed possible at my previous school.
“Beech Hall has encouraged me to be myself. The staff have all been very supportive and have helped me make progress and achieve my results, which I’m really proud of.”
And cricket player Otis Palmes, 16, has secured a place at the Myerscough College, where he will follow his dreams and build upon his exceptional abilities on the Cricket Studies course.
Headmaster James Allen he was impressed with the achievements of his pupils this year.
He said: “I am overwhelmed with the positive attitudes that our pupils have developed to their learning through the last two years. Their individual commitment and hard work has paid off with excellent results, particularly in regards to the value-added achievements, the difference between what the pupils were predicted to achieve in relation to what they attained.”