Academy’s stars hit new heights
STUDENTS at Ormiston Chadwick Academy (OCA) in Widnes have smashed records with their latest GCSE results.
A total of 68% of pupils at the Liverpool Road school achieved five A*-C grades including English and maths, up by 15%.
Students achieving five A*-C results reached a remarkable 88% and a staggering quarter of all students achieved five or more A* or A grades.
OCA principal Tuesday Humby said it has been the ‘best day ever’.
She said: “This is the first year of results from the new curriculum we brought in at the end of the 2014 academic year – so the stakes were high for us.
“The year group joined the academy bang on national average, so we set them the challenge to be anything but, and like GB Olympians they rose to it, they stepped up, they grafted and there was a lot of fun along the way.
“I am so immensely proud of them today and so grateful to be leading such a wonderful team of staff who have helped make our vision for them a reality.
“I’m also just so delighted for those parents who took a gamble on us over the last couple of years when the academy was so young, so new, with no track record of its own and recovering from what happened at the predecessor school.
“I promised them we would create a school that they could be proud of, that would compete with the best, that would nurture and stretch every child. Today is a victory for those parents too and the loyal community that means so much to us here – thank you so much for your faith in OCA.”