IT wasn’t only the students celebrating GCSE results at Darwen Aldridge Community Academy.

Mum-of-two, and the academy’s year 11 pastoral manager Alex Fort, also sat the GCSE maths paper at the academy and achieved a grade C.

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Alex, who lives in Padiham, said: “I lacked confidence in maths and always wanted to improve on the GCSE grade that I got when I was at school.

“The academy agreed for me to sit in with a GCSE class and follow the course with them in Year 11.

“It was great to experience the challenge of the GCSE with the students. I was able to understand and empathise with what the students were going through, and when I stood in front of them and took assemblies they all knew I was going through a similar experience.

“I wanted to prove to them and to myself that it could be done and today has been great getting the results we all deserve.”

Alex has worked at the Academy since it opened in 2008, and worked at Darwen Moorland High School before that.