Students achieve top grade GCSEs By Diane Nicholls
THE long nervous wait was over for students throughout Maid- stone as the GCSE results en- velopes were finally handed out. Students at Invicta Grammar school achieved 65% A*/A grades, with the number of stu- dents who have eight subjects at these levels increasing to 64%. High fliers were Kelly Boxall,
Emma Copland, Lydia McLaren and Kirsten Wells who all achieved 11 A*/A grades in their GCSEs and 2 As at AS level, which they took a year early. Fay Hodgson notched up 10A*/A GCSE grades and two As and a B
atASlevel.More than 20 students scored straight A*/A grades. At New Line Learning Aademy, in Boughton Lane, Maidstone, students set a new school record, with 95% achiev- ing A*-C grades. Oakwood Park Grammar School also had another record breaking year with 52%of grades A* or A, and 64% of students gaining five or more A*/A grades. At neighbouring St Simon
Stock RC School, 75% of pupils gained five or more A*-C with a 98% pass rate. Maidstone Grammar School
pupils attained the second best set of GCSE results in the school’s history with 99% of students gaining five A*-C grades includ-
Celebration day for Invicta Grammar school pupils
ing English and maths and 54% of all subject entries at A*/A. Students at Maidstone Gram-
mar School for Girls, scored the school’s best ever results with 33 pupils achieving at least 10A*/A grades
each.Twins Alice andCar- olyn Rogers gained 12 identical A* grades, and 58% of all grades were A*/A. At Cornwallis Academy,in Hubbards Lane, Linton, 55% of students achieved five A*-C grades, including English and maths, with 90% gaining five good A*-C grades. Students at Swadelands in
Ham Lane, Lenham, broke the school records with 92% achiev- ing five A*-C grades including English and maths. Notable suc- cesses included LeahWatsonwho gained anAfor AS maths as well
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as eight A* and three A grade GCSEs,TomRobinson (1 A*, 7A, 5 B), Louise Woods (6 A, 3 B), Louise Kenyon (4 A, 9 B) and SummerCarroll (1A*, 1A,10 B). Sutton Valence School cele-
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