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Successful students receive straight As at Oakwood Park Grammar
Dual success for girls from Invicta Grammar School, which also raised more than £43,000 for charity
Students make the grade
MANY youngsters across Maidstone celebrated strong A-level results. A third of sixth formers at Oak-
wood Park Grammar School achieved A*-A grades. Top performer Rabey Chowd-
hury will take his place at Cam- bridge, studying natural sciences, after gaining three A*s and an A. James Handy, Nelson Talukder,
Ivan Pilfold andAndrew Collins all gained two A*s and two As. James and Ivan will be taking degrees in mathematics at Warwick Univer- sity, while Nelson will study physics at Imperial College, Lon- don.
Andrew Collins will study med-
icine at the University of Exeter. Barney Green and James Creasey achieved A*/A grades and are both off to study engineering at Surrey University. William Anderson earned three A grades and will study biological science at Lan- caster University. Richard Anderson will study modern foreign languages at Durham after earning three As. Euan Dickson and Jordan Cochrane will attend the Univer- sity of East Anglia and Exeter re- spectively, studying geography and history with politics after se- curing A*/A grades in all subjects. Nick Cooper’s three As have earned him a place to study archi- tecture at Cardiff University. Great Britain fencer Simon Dacey managed to combine the rigours of training with A-level studies and after achieving four As will be tak- ing a gap year prior to studying chemistry or biochemistry at a uni- versity in London. After his A-level results and a rigorous selection process, Nelson Sinclair Strong has been awarded a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in Lon- don. Overall, a third of students earned a place at the Russell Group or a top 20 UK university. Results from Maidstone Gram-
mar School were even better than last year, with just under 60% of all A-level entries graded A*-B and nearly one in three grades at A* or
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A. Twenty-five students achieved at least three A grades or better, while 14 gained two A* grades or better and nine achieved three A*s or better. Top scholars were Sam Coward,
with four A*s and William Grace, with four A*s and top grades in all three Step exams for entry to Cam- bridge for mathematics. This is the first time any MGS student has gained top grades in all three Step papers. The school also achieved its best AS-level results yet. At Maidstone Grammar School
for Girls, 98.9% of pupils achieved five A*-Cs including English and maths. Sixty-nine per cent of pupils scored five or more A*/As, with 60% of grades either As or A*s. At Invicta Grammar School, stu-
dents achieved 69% A*-B grades, alongside raising more than £43,000 for charity. Head Julie Derrick said: “The stu-
dents have achieved 200 A* and A grades and from our 160 students, 100% achieved A*-E grades, 90% A*-Cs, with 12% A* grades.” The number of students achiev-
ing an A*-B grade in two or more subjects rose from 21.7% to 42.5%. Lisa Phipps earned a place to
study veterinary science at Edin- burgh as did Kate Boniface, at the Royal Veterinary College and Beth Rose, at Bristol; Charlotte Summers will go on to study medicine in Birmingham and Katie Driver, the
same subject, in Bristol. Kiera Doughty, with five A*s,
will study mathematics at Cam- bridge; Lauren Satchwell, five A* and As, management, Bath; Lisa Phipps, five A* and As, veterinary medicine, Edinburgh; Mercedes Brown, four A* and As, physics with astrophysics, Bath; Felicity Murray, four A* and As, psychol- ogy, Bath. Head girl Katie Driver will study medicine at Bristol after gaining four A*/As. At St Simon Stock Catholic School, students notched up a 100% pass rate in their A-level and vocational examinations, with 92% achieving two or moreA-levels and 43% the top A*-B grades. This is a rise of almost 10% on the previous year. The highest performing students
were Sarah Pattinson and Clara Senior, followed by Grace Tashie- Lewis, Lara Epsley, Mikaela D’Souza, Matthew Brown, Domas Dregva and Daniel Ellesmere. Head Brendan Wall said: “The highest achieving students gained grades equal to our best in 2013 and will be attending the top Rus- sell Group.” The Maplesden Noakes School,
in Maidstone, reported “outstand- ing results”, showing “year-on- year improvement” in its results. Michaela Porter earned two A*s
and an A, securing a place atWar- wick University; Jordhan State scored a Distinction*, twoAgrades
and a place at Surrey University; Charlie Powell earned two As and a B and a place at the University of Kent; Mukeh Lansana an A*, A, and B and a place at the University of York; Amie Hine gained a Dis- tinction*, two Bs and a place at Southampton. Jack Batters, Tom Calvert, Ellis Rose and Josh Gilbert all achieved Distinction* for their BTEC Sports Studies. Sixth-formers at Future Schools
Trust, which covers Cornwallis and New Line Learning acade- mies, set a new record with this year’s A-level results, with 75% of all grades being A*-C. Head girl Rebecca Hubbard is heading to Greenwich University to study event management after securing A* grades in travel and tourism, and business. Shewas also awarded a B in design technology. Cara Brown achieved anA* in so- ciology, anA in RE, and Bs in Eng- lish literature and history. She will study sociology at Bath University. Deputy head boy Philip Hol-
lamby secured the grades he needed to enrol on a primary teacher training course at Canter- bury Christ Church University. He leaves with anA* in business, a B in English literature and a C in geog- raphy.
Students heading off to Russell
Group universities include Layla Richardson, who is going to Cardiff to study archaeology and Amber Rose Mckenzie, who is going to study English literature at Liver- pool. Valley Park School had a record
Cornwallis students Amy Pearce, Harry Gol- lop, Shottie Hopkins, and head girl Rebecca Hubbard
set of results, with its 80 Year 13 students achieving a 57% pass rate at the topAandA* grades and 87% at A*-C.
Fourteen gained A and A* in
three or more subjects. High per- formers were Briony Everest, Ayesha Cooper, Poppy Harris, Ro- jina Giri, James Kiell, Titas Kuprys, Zoe Noble, Emily Nurden, Nelson Rai, Mitchell Ranger, Sam Read, Harry Simpson, Danielle Spry and KimWarren.
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