Live: GCSE results in York and North Yorkshire

Students and Staff at All Saints RC School are celebrating the school’s best ever results.

With 84% of students achieving a standard pass and a 70% achieving a strong pass in English and maths, the students are in a great position to be able to move on to A level study at All Saints or to the next stage in their lives.

Headteacher Sharon Keelan-Beardsley is delighted for the students. “Our school has seen a steady improvement in results over the last few years, however, these are the first set of publish results since 2019 and they are very much in line with our teacher assessed grades from 2020 and 2021.

“I couldn’t be more proud of what our young people have achieved. They have been supported every step of the way by a fantastic and committed team of staff and caring and supportive families and their hard work and dedication has been justly rewarded.

“We celebrate the achievements of all our young people, including those who have achieved a full complement of 9’s and 8’s as well as those who have made excellent progress from their starting point.

“The challenges of the last few years have added different pressures and complexities to the lives of many of our students, but with the highest ever progress figures, I think we can conclude that the academic rigour students can expect at All Saints, combined with excellent pastoral support is a combination for success.” 

Congratulations to over 50 adult learners aged between 17 and 70 who collected their GCSE English and maths results at York Learning today, having studied an intensive course over just one year.

Some students have studied both English and maths at the same time.

Many of them fitting in study alongside their working lives – and proving it’s never too late to learn!

GCSE students from York College celebrated with friends and family on results day and planned the next steps on their learning journey.

The College, which offers GCSEs in Maths, English Language and Biology, to post-school learners of all ages, saw impressive improvements in grades from its adult learners.

Lee Probert, York College’s Chief Executive and Principal, congratulated all GCSE students on the results of their hard work.

He said: “These qualifications open the door to further study, paving the way for progression to high quality apprenticeships, vocational qualifications, T Levels and A Levels.

“At York College more than 20 per cent of young people improved their GCSE grades.  An impressive set of results for adults saw an 11 percentage-point improvement in grades nine to four in English Language and an eight percentage-point increase for GCSE Maths.

“Whatever grades you’re picking up today, schools, colleges and private training providers have lots of options for further study.  So do get in touch with us and let us help you choose your next steps.”

Amongst those celebrating was Caroline Merrett, 46, from York, who said: “I had no GCSEs but I thought I’d like to get maths, and today I’ve got a grade five.

“I really enjoyed it at York College – both the studying and the social aspect. I’ve now signed up to study counselling and I feel really good.”

Meanwhile, Emma Burnett, 43, From North Duffield near Selby was thrilled to discover she had achieved grade four in biology and grade five in English language.

“My aim is to get onto an Access to Higher Education course and from there I want to go into midwifery. I need English, Maths and Biology to get onto the access course, so my results today are a big step towards that. I start my maths GCSE in September.

“I feel really good today. I was convinced I hadn’t done well. I had to study while I was working and looking after my two kids. Now I feel like all my hard work was worthwhile.”

Troy Thompson, 17, from York, obtained grade four in Maths and a grade three in English Language. He said: “I think I may retake Maths and aim for a grade five and I will definitely take English again.

“I start my Level 3 Business course in September and I’m looking at eventually going to university.”

Pupils and staff at Millthorpe School are celebrating an excellent set of GCSE results this year.

Thirteen students achieved outstanding results of at least nine grade 7/8/9s (equivalent to A/A* and above) including: Billy Ainsworth, Emily Burns, Sarah Craigen, Daisy Dunn, George Healy, Felix Hitchen, Frances Hogg, Francesca Mackay, Jack Newton, Floella Phillips, Hannah Pool, Hani Sannuga and Guy Wilson.

Special congratulations go to Maisie Burrow-Hills who achieved an outstanding ten grade 9s and Lucy Fearns who achieved nine grade 9s!

Gemma Greenhalgh, head teacher at Milllthorpe School said, “We are all incredibly proud of our students at Millthorpe.

“They have achieved outstanding results despite all the challenges they have faced over the last two years.

“As the first cohort of students facing a full examination series since lockdown, we have been thoroughly impressed by their resilience, dedication and relentless determination to succeed; they are a credit to our school.

“They have remained positive, good humoured and supportive of each other throughout the last two years.

“We are very grateful for the support of all our parents and carers who have motivated their children and continued to work alongside staff to ensure the students achieve the grades they have worked so hard for. I would also like to publicly thank all my colleagues who have worked so hard to support and inspire our students.

“We wish all of our students every success in their new and exciting ventures.”

The Mount School York is celebrating an outstanding set of GCSE results which saw 8 and 9 grades the order of the day for many.

Among those celebrating today were Suki, who was ‘overwhelmed’ by her results. “I am very overwhelmed but happy!” she said. “Thank you to my teachers for all the support over the last two years it’s been really helpful.”

Equally enthused with her results, Millie added, “I am incredibly happy, especially with my maths results! My teachers and all the staff have been so helpful.

Congratulations to all our Year 11 pupils on their fantastic GCSE results this morning 🎉 #GCSE #ResultsDay2022 #GCSEresults #WeKnowGirlsCan

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“My maths teachers gave me a lot of support by running extra sessions and offering help. They are amazing people!”

Despite the disruption to their typical teaching delivery, the year 11 pupils continued to flourish as they quickly adapted to new methods of online learning as proven in the results they achieved.

To continue the festivities through into the afternoon, the girls are planning a picnic on Knavesmire. This wonderful opportunity will enable the group to unwind and relax after an apprehensive couple of months awaiting results.

Expressing his delight, principal David Griffiths, said: “The girls have achieved an excellent set of results that reflects all the hard work of our girls and staff over the past two years. I am really proud of all the girls have achieved and look forward to seeing them continue to flourish in our Sixth Form.”

“Every single QM girl has worked tremendously hard in the classroom and online through the most difficult of times and they thoroughly deserve the excellent grades they’ve achieved.”

That’s the proud message from the head of Queen Margaret’s School for Girls in York, Sue Baillie.

She said: “Their results enable our girls to look forward with optimism to the next stage of their studies here in the QM Sixth Form, and then to university and employment.” 

A quarter of all of the school’s GCSE entries were marked at grade 9 and 40% of pupils achieved five or more 9-8 grades.

All the of music, history, further mathematics, Latin and Mandarin entries achieved grades 6-9. And in individual sciences 98% of all grades were marked 6-9.

Day pupil Freya, who achieved a clean sweep of grades 9-7, including six grade 9s, can’t wait for what’s in store next at QM.

Freya’s passion is drama – she recently took a leading role in the school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and will go on to study A Levels in drama and theatre, mathematics, Spanish and biology at QM’s Sixth Form.

She said: “I’m so utterly pleased with my results and I am very grateful to all my teachers who have given me so much support over the last few years, especially when we were learning online.”

Joseph Rowntree School is proud of their Year 11 students, the first year group to sit external exams since 2019, for coming though difficult times with great results.

Their hard work and perseverance has been rewarded.

The school says: “We have loved working with them, and seeing them develop in our school community.

“There are so many success stories within our results, with students achieving brilliant results against the backdrop of real challenge, and we hope that all our students will feel proud of what they have achieved in their exams.”

Nineteen Jo Ro students have six or more grades at 8 or 9, and many more students have smashed their target grades to truly excel. 

Kian Kennedy achieved 7 Grade 9s, and Renia Fragkoulaki and Scott Codrai were amongst students who earned 6 Grade 9s amongst their results.

Head David Hewitt said:

We are delighted with the results our Year 11 students have achieved, both individually and as a year group.

This has been a difficult few years for students, but they have responded superbly to the challenges that periods of lockdown and school closures have created.

The resilience of our students during this time has been fantastic to see and we are looking forward to continuing to work with those staying in Sixth Form and to hearing about the continued successes of those students who are leaving us.

We’ve been sent some video from GCSE day at Millthorpe School in York.

We particularly like the slow mo jumping for joy action!

Here are some of the Year 11 high fliers from York High School this year.

“We are delighted to celebrate success in our English results this year at York High School.  Well done to Keeley Ward for her 9 in language and 8 in literature.  Congratulations to Dominika Lipska, Amy Knutton, Jade Maxwell-Allen and Aimee Robinson for their superb 8s.

“‘We are so pleased with our results, students and staff worked tirelessly to continuously improve throughout the year,’ – Mrs Young, head of English.”

“Well done to Harriet Linsey-Bessent and George Wilkins for their grade 8s in maths. Mr Byrne the head of Maths, said: ‘This is a great set of results from a great set of students.  We are delighted with the high grades but this year we have seen some exceptional performances from all.

“‘Kayden Mahoney and Ambar Bispo De Souza performed superbly in achieving their grade 5s. Across the board we have seen hard work and good attendance rewarded.'”

“15 Grade 9s for the humanities department at YHS this year continuing the outstanding performance of the department in recent years. History continues to excel and MFL gets stronger year on year. Geography has shown significant improvement and along with History is achieving results way above the national average.  

“Religious studies deserves significant praise for the 8 grade 9s achieved under the leadership of Mr Bower.  Congratulations to Isabel Allman, Olivia Bielby, Ruby Long, Jade Maxwell-Allen, Amy Knutton, Ruby Rollinson, Ellie Smith and Emily Ward.  

“I am proud of all of the exceptional team of teachers in humanities, they are are brilliant individually but exceptional as a team.”

“Mrs Nicholas was over the moon at the child development results with the following students achieving Level 2 Distinction star (the highest grade possible): Shannon Burns, Amy Knutton, Evie Lytham, Ruby Mason, Katie Pemberton, Ellie Smith and Nicole Smith. 

“Mrs Nicholas said: ‘Well done to all who studied child development and health and social care this year and a special mention to Leila Weck who achieved a Level 2 Distinction star in health and social care.” 

The Year 11 students at York High School showed great resilience in bouncing back from the disruption of Covid and school closure to achieve ‘a fantastic set of results’.

Head teacher Rod Sims paid tribute to them and his staff today:

This group of students started at YHS when I became headteacher and we have faced the highs and lows of the last five years side by side.

The wonderful staff at YHS have enabled so many of our students to achieve higher than expected grades, whether this is at grade 4, 5 or 7+.  Year 11, well done!

Jess Fullerton deserves special congratulations for 8 grade 9s and two grade 8s, the school said.

Isabel Allman and Olivia Bielby also deserve a specific mention for achieving an average of grade 8 in all their subjects. 

Students are given a GCSE forecast nationally based on their Sat results at the end of primary school – and these students achieved two grades higher than they were predicted: congratulations to Andy Slodki, Leila Weck, Nicole Smith, Simal Kara and Ruby Mason.

As we reported earlier in the blog, Huntington School in York has had a great year, with 84% of students achieving a standard pass in their English GCSE and 80% a standard pass in maths.

Now we have these great pictures of some of their Year 11 stars on results day!

Year 11 students at Archbishop Holgate’s School “performed exceptionally” their proud head teacher said today.

“Building on our excellent Sixth Form results last week, I am happy to say that our Year 11 students have also performed exceptionally across the full range of GCSE and BTEC qualifications,” said head Andrew Daly.

“We are delighted for all our students and the outstanding progress they have made.”

A total of 88% of all students passed their English GCSE, 82% of students passed their maths GCSE, with 80% of our students achieving a pass in both English and Maths.

“A superb achievement given the rigour of these qualifications and challenges of the past two years.”

The spread of good results was across all subject areas, the school said. Altogether 69% of the year group secured at least one grade 7, 8, 9 or Distinction*, “which they should be extremely proud of”. 

Special mention should also be made to the 31 students who achieved 9 or more 7, 8 and 9 grade qualifications.

Deputy head Penny McDermott said: “These results are a testament to the hard work and dedication of both students and staff. The students have risen to the challenges of the GCSE qualifications and we are so proud of their diligence, resilience and determination to succeed.”

Hannah Turvey, Head of Year 11, said: “The diligence, resourcefulness and hard work of our students has been reflected in their individual results and shared today with staff, parents and friends through tears, laughter, delight, relief and a sense of a job well done.”

Director of the Archies sixth form Francesca De Lashley said there were limited places at the sixth form left – find out more on the website.

The early word from All Saints RC School in York is that they have achieved a ‘fantastic set of results’

Here are some of the students who are celebrating today.

The head of Manor CE Academy has paid tribute to a ‘wonderful group of students’ as the school celebrates an excellent set of results.

Interim principal of Manor CE Academy Liz Mastin said: “This year, students took tests and exams for the first time in three years.

“The class of 2022 have had to deal with a lot during their time with us and their resilience and application has been laudable and should be recognised and celebrated.

“We are immensely proud of the work and achievements of this wonderful group of students.

“We know how hard they have worked and I am so pleased that their results reflect their ability and potential. Huge congratulations to them all, and many thanks to all our staff who have worked so hard to support and prepare them for these exams.

“We look forward to seeing how the class of 2022 progress as they join their post-16 providers across the city and beyond.”

The first news comes from Huntington School in York.

Their students are are celebrating after 84% achieved a standard pass in their English GCSE and 80% a standard pass in Maths.

Altogether “76% of our students achieved a standard pass in both English and Maths, which is a superb achievement”, the school says.

They added: “On top of this, 42% of all our students achieved at least a Grade 7 in English, which is quite extraordinary.

“Furthermore, 38% of all our GCSE entries were graded 7 or above, highlighting some exceptional performance across a range of academic subjects, with one in three of our students achieving at least 5 or more of these very best grades.”

Naturally head teacher Matt Smith is delighted:

Congratulations to all our students on these amazing GCSE/Level 2 results, which is a testament to their dedication and perseverance during the last two years. We are so proud of them all.

It’s been good to get back to proper exams this year and it’s been impressive to see the manner in which our Year 11 students have taken these exams in their stride.

It was a delight to see so many happy faces this morning; as students celebrated their achievements with friends, family and school staff. The results they have achieved today will enable them to take the next steps in their education with a great deal of confidence. It’s been a great team effort and one we are very proud of.