GCSE results: Fearns’ Community Sports College, Stacksteads (From Lancashire Telegraph)

GCSE results: Fearns’ Community Sports College, Stacksteads

6:00pm Friday 26th August 2011 in Stacksteads

PUPILS celebrated their best-ever GCSE results at Fearns Community Sports College with 64 per cent achieving five or more A*-C grades.

Headteacher of the Stacksteads school Nigel Dawson said: “Last year our statistics showed a record 60 per cent of pupils gaining five or more A* to C so I am delighted that we have now pushed that figure even higher up to 64 per cent.

“I am equally pleased that 75 per cent of our Year 10s who took their maths GCSEs a year early achieved A* to C results.

"This gives them a secure start to their Year 11. We are looking to introduce early English GCSEs from November.

“These are the highest results Fearns has ever had.

"It has been a pleasure to work with the pupils over the past five years, four as their teacher and one as head and I, along with all the teachers and staff at Fearns, wish them every success in their chosen future path.”

Harry Lord let out a ‘Yes’ when he opened the envelope and discovered he had achieved A grades in the three subjects he had picked for A level at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Sixth Form – Biology, Chemistry and Religious Studies.

These grades were enhanced by a further four Bs and 2 Cs.

“I want to be a doctor and am hoping to go to medical school after A-levels,” he said.

“I am really pleased with my results.”

Also celebrating was wannabe computer games designer Demi Beresford who will be starting on her chosen career path by studying at Accrington and Rossendale College.

“I am really happy with my grades, I got a lot of things I didn’t expect,” she said.

Her As were in Art and Graphics and English while she also got five Bs, a C and BTEC Sport.

Demi added: “I do a lot of art and also some 3D work and am hoping to present my ideas to a games company.”

Teaching is in the sights of high achieving Dale Clifton who got an A* for his Maths and an A in Physics along with a further, 3Bs and a C.

After A-Levels at BRGS and university he hopes to train to be a PE or Maths teacher.

Joining Harry and Dale at BRGS will be Matt Harding who got an A* in Biology, four As in Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Resistant Materials, 3 Bs, a C and a BTEC in Sport.

He said: “Biology was a subject that I really enjoyed. I am going on to do A levels but after that I have no idea what I want to do.”

Headteacher Nigel Dawson said he was delighted with the achievements of all the Year 11 students and wished them every success on their future journeys.

“This is my first year as head and I am delighted with how far our students have come,” he said.

“It is also the first year we have had Year 10s taking Maths GCSE early and this was a huge success with 75 per cent of those taking the exam achieving an A* to C grade.

"This is something we will be introducing for English GCSE from November.”

Results

T Allen 12; J Ashcroft 7.5; K Ashworth 9; S Ashworth 11; J Bailey 11; H Barlow 9; D Beresford 12; L Birch 13; A Booth 10; R Booth 12; J Bosworth 5.5; K Brandwood 11; S Breeze 13; A Brierley 10.5; D Brown 12; LE Brown 11; J Bulling 11; A Burke 12; J Caine 13; C Casey 11; C Casey 11; N Cashinella 8.5; R Chadwick 12; M Challinor 4.5; N Chedzoy 11; C Clark 12; S Clayton 13; S Clegg 9.5; D Clifton 11; T Coley 10; N Cooke-Love 10; D Cooper 6; L Cooper 11; Z Craven 11; J Crook 10; S Crook 9.5; J Davis 11; L Davis 14; G Doherty 8.5; M Donnelly 8.5; C Duckworth 11; C Ellis 10; J Elsworth 0; J English 1.5; C Evans 7.5; S Fielding 10; M Fraser 11; A Frielick 10; L Garside 13; H Gibbons 10; H Gill 13; Z Goodenough 10; A Goudie 12; L Goulding 12; J Gowland 8; L Gray 11; A Gregory 14; R Griffin 6.5; B Grime 8; N Guest 11; Z Hall 10; M Harding 12; C Hartley 9; S Haworth 10; A Hayden 13; D Herbert 9.5; Z Higgins 7.5; J Hill 6.5; A Hindle 10; A Hoban 10; N Hodgson 13; E Holmes 15; H Hooley 13; P Howard 9.5; T Hunter 11; C Hutchinson 8.5; J Jennings 9; L Jennings 7; S Kearns 8.5; C Kenyon 11; J Kershaw 9.5; N Knights 11; C Large 13; H Lord 10; J Lord 11; M Lord 11; M Love 9; S Lumb 6; D Mannion 11; W Marsh 8; R Matthews 9; S McCartan 13; K Melvin 12; S Merryweather 11; L Middlebrook 8; L Miller 13; J Mitchell 9; R Mitchell 12; P Morris 11; D Murphy 10; O Nangle 10; L Naylor 8; N Neill 11; C Nixon 9; S O'Connor 6; B Oldham 7.5; J O'Neill 9; A Parker 11; K Parker 11; K Pilling 13; L Pilling 12; H Powell 10; J Prophet 7.5; A Radcliffe 9; K Ratcliffe 12; M Riley 2.5; M Robinson 9.5; L Roscoe 15; T Rowe 11; W Saegnmat 8; S Sahota 10; J Scaife 10; C Scull 7; R Shaw 9; Z Shaw 12; T Shufflebottom 0.5; A Simpson 10; J Smith 8; N Sparkes 7.5; A Sparks 10; Z St Ledger 7; C Stott 12; S Stott 7.5; B Surkitt 13; C Swallow 0; N Talbot 4; L Tarrant 11; C Taylor 13; L Taylor 13; S Taylor 10; N Taylor-Lyons 10; W Thompson 6; J Tresch 4.5; J Trickett 1; A Ullah 7; N Vincent 10; S Vincent 13; C Vipond 9; N Warwick 13; M Wesolowska 12; C Westwell 10; D Westwell 10; N Wharton 10.5; J Wheatley 11; L Whitworth 9.5; M Whyte 10; C Wilkinson 11.5; C Williams 15; D Youll 0.5; R Yusuf 12.