Celebrating record year of exam results
A Sunderland school is celebrating another year of record results on GCSE day.
Following a great set of Alevel results last week, Southmoor Academy’s teachers and students are celebrating the school’s best ever GCSE results.
The Ryhope Road school has seen significant improvements across all key areas.
The percentage of students achieving a grade 4 or above in English and Maths rose from 57% to 66% and those gaining a grade 5 or above in these two subjects rose from 37% to 45%.
New CEO of Southmoor Academy Trust, Steve Garrett, said, “For us to achieve such dramatic improvement building on existing strong results is a really pleasing outcome.”
Amid the statistics there were many stories of individual triumph, including two students Tyreke Holness and Megan Simmons, who are among the elite in the country gaining seven grade 9s each.
Tyreke got seven 9s, one 8, one 7, an A* and an A and Megan got seven 9s, two 8s, and A* and an A.
Others celebrating included Callum Macleod, who got three 9s, three 8s, one 7, two 6s and an A, Roop-Anand Kang, who got two 9s, two 8s, three 7s, two 6s and an A* and Louis James, who got six 9s, two 8s, an A* and an A.
Eve Crosby clinched two 9s, two 8s, one 5 and two As, Ellie McCormick got seven 8s, one 7 and one 5 and Faith Prudy got one 8, four 7s, one six, two As and a distinction.