A year head at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School (QEGS) in Blackburn has spoken of his "pride" as pupils celebrated their GCSE results.
Overall, 32 per cent of pupils achieved at least one grade 8 or 9, the very highest attainment grades, with 53 per cent of pupils achieving at least one grade 7 or higher.
Eighty-one per cent gained at least five grades 4 and above which is an amazing achievement considering QEGS offers a traditional set of GCSE subjects, with pupils taking 10 or 11 GCSE subjects including compulsory languages and humanities alongside the core subjects of English, mathematics and the sciences.
The combined English GCSE grades were extremely strong with the percentage of pupils achieving grades 9 to 5 and grades 9 to 4 being 77 per cent and 89 per cent respectively.
Head of Year 11 Mr Conefrey congratulated the pupils for their attitude to learning during the pandemic.
He said: “Some of them found it quite stressful coming into the exams. I have to say they all came into the exams with a really positive attitude.
“Even though there were a few upset people sitting the exams because of the stress of it, we gave them a lot of support and they really really gave it their all and I couldn’t be more proud of them.
“On top of missing the exams and not being used to sitting exams they missed so much school.”
Abdullah Amaan and Christopher Chen; Isha Malik with Muruvet Demir
Amina Masood was one of the highest achievers at the school and was overjoyed with her results gaining four 9s and three 8s.
Muhammad Ali (below) was joined by his dad Zafar at QEGS. He achieved four 9s and five 8s and two 7s.
Zafar said: "I am very proud of him and he has done well. Hopefully, he has a bright future ahead of him.
"He is following in the footsteps of my daughters who have all done really well in their careers."
Zafar's daughters have gone on to qualify as lawyers, consultants and chartered accountants.
The school said in a statement: “We are delighted that the hard work, resilience and commitment of our pupils has been rewarded with such excellent results.
“Many of our pupils are returning to QEGS for their Sixth Form education. We also look forward to enrolling external students over the next two days. We wish all our pupils well for the next stage of their education.”
The school said it was pleasing to celebrate the results in biology, chemistry, classical civilisation, religious studies, further mathematics and physics in which the percentages achieving the highest grades, grades 9 to 7 were 46 per cent, 52 per cent, 40 per cent, 36 per cent, 38 per cent and 57 per cent respectively.
Classical civilisation, English language, English literature and further mathematics all achieved 80 per cent and above in the percentage grade 9 to 4 measure with biology, chemistry, religious studies, music, and physics achieving 94 per cent, 96 per cent, 91 per cent, 100 per cent and 94 per cent respectively in this measure.
Biology, chemistry, further mathematics, music, physics and religious studies all achieved more than 75 per cent in the percentage grade 9 to 5 measure.
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