Well done to pupils and teachers. Provisional results show a ten percent improvement in the number of pupils achieving five A* - C in this year's GCSEs.
The College has provisionally achieved 84% of its year 11 students achieving the benchmark standard of higher grade passes of a minimum of 5A* - C, which is an impressive 16% above the provisional national average of 68%.
A year of substantial success across a range of mixed ability classes at Priory School with 38 pupils aged 14-16 (Years 9-11) accumulating 202 GCSEs over 18 subjects.
Following the damning Ofsted report on Isle of Wight council's education, we try and get answers from the people - Steve Beynon and David Pugh - who were in charge, before they left without bearing the consequences.
Andrew Turner is clearly distressed at the bottom-in-England GCSE results. He also reveals for the first time that "Ministers have been worried about education on the Island for a long time".
The Isle of Wight is bottom of the table for pupils achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C. When Maths and English are included, the Isle of Wight is second from the bottom.