Isle of Wight teenagers (and some adults) will be finding out today (Thursday) how well they fared with their 2017 A-level results.
Updates will be coming in throughout the day from all the schools who offer A-level options, including Christ the King College, Cowes Enterprise College, Island Innovation Trust VI form Campus, Ryde Academy, Ryde School, Platform One College of Music and Sandown Bay Academy.
Index:
- Platform One College of Music
- Cowes Enterprise College
- Sandown Bay Academy
- Ryde School
- Ryde Academy
- Christ the King College
- Island Innovation VI Form Campus
For those who did not achieve the results to gain a place at University, this article from BBC NewsBeat is a good read : Why getting university place isn’t the only option for you.
8.36am
Platform One College of Music
First off the blocks with results is Platform One. Twenty-three students achieved the Level 3 Extended Diploma in Music, which is equivalent to taking three full A Levels.
Many students exceeded challenging targets, with nine students gaining the equivalent of three straight A grades.
Chloe Russell-Thompson achieved a D*D*D* result. This is the same as three A star, full A-level grades. Chloe also achieved Grade 8 bass guitar.
Also achieving Distinction star grades was Liam Burke, Sam Daysh, Bethan Smith and Daniel Thorton.
See the full release for more specific detail.
If you know 12-16 year olds who are interested in music, Platform One offers a Saturday Rock School starting next month.
10:17am
Cowes Enterprise College
Overall headlines for the academy:
- Average grades up from 2016
- 90% of A-level entries achieved a pass grade.
- 100% of vocational entries achieved a Distinction or Distinction* grade.
- A-level value-added around the national average.
- Vocational value-added further improved on last year’s strong performance to be well above the national average
- Four students achieved the equivalent of AAB or better.
- 31 students achieved pass grades in at least 3 subjects at A level or equivalent.
- 6 students achieve places in Russell Group Universities
- 100% of the students applying to university successfully offered a place
An increase in overall subject attainment and sparkling performance in vocational subjects headline another successful season for students in Year 13 at Cowes Enterprise College in 2017.
The Academy has a broad access policy and students from a wide range of prior attainments have worked tremendously hard to achieve value-added that is broadly in line with similar students from across the country.
See the full release for more specific detail.
11.26am
Sandown Bay Academy
The resilience of students at Sandown Bay Academy has shone through with their success in post-16 studies (A Levels and Applied A Levels).
Four students gained three A* grades and those gaining a total of three or more facilitating subjects was up by 12%.
The new measure of students gaining high grades in at least two facilitating subjects was also up by 10% on last year’s equivalent.
Students praised the staff for their support, which was acknowledged by the Academy. This focus on success by staff was key in over 97% of students getting into their first choice university. Students have been accepted onto a huge range of courses at some of the best universities in the UK.
See the full release for more specific detail.
11.49am
Ryde School
More than a third of results graded ‘A*’ or ‘A’ and over a quarter of pupils getting at least two A grades in the largely reformed exams.
Two pupils have secured places at Oxbridge, Hannah Perkins of Ryde to read Physics at Trinity, Oxford and Wilfred Armfield of Cowes, who is looking forward to studying Maths at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge. Wilf secured Grade 1s in STEP Maths having already gained an impressive 43 points at IB earlier in the summer.
Two pupils have secured places to study Medicine; Megan Nicholson (Ryde) through an ‘A’ level route and Štasa Šćepanović (Montenegro) via the IB Diploma.
Head Boy Peter Hepburn of Freshwater, Deputy Head Girl Elizabeth Gillett from Totland, Lucy Daniels (Seaview), Jessie Gong (China) and Felicity Woolhouse from Newport were amongst those gaining two A* grades and will go on to study Design Engineering at Bristol, Geography at Bristol, Geology at Cardiff, Film & Television at Edinburgh and Physics at Manchester respectively.
See the full release for more specific detail.
12.10pm
Ryde Academy
The progress of students is significantly above that of other students nationally, with 100% of students gaining at least two A-levels or equivalent qualifications.
More than 60% of grades achieved by students were A*-C.
All students who applied to university have achieved a place.
See the full release for more specific detail.
2pm
Christ the King College
95 per cent of pupils achieved A* to E, with well over half of the students achieving an A* -B in at least one of their subjects.
Over 80 per cent of students achieved three A-levels or equivalent. The college is also celebrating a significant improvement in the results of their vocational students whose average grade is a Distinction.
These results mean that more than 95 per cent of students have secured their chosen places at universities across the country.
See the full release for more specific detail.
Island Innovation VI Form Campus
There have been some excellent results for individual students in their A Levels and BTEC studies with many students getting straight A grades or triple distinctions.
- 39 pupils achieved A* or A in one or more of their A Level subjects, 13 of which achieved AAB or better.
- 38 pupils achieved Distinction* or Distinction in their vocational courses.
- Over 70 A* or A grades and over 60 Distinction* or Distinction grades were awarded across the centre.
- 62% of A Level grades achieved were A*C.
- 87% of vocational grades achieved were Distinction* to Merit.
See the full release for more specific detail.
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