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Cornwallis students Annie Miller, Purdy Hood and Elliot Coveney
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 have been celebrated their strong A-level results. 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 off
to the University of Greenwich to study event management after se- curing 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 will study English literature at Liverpool. Students at Sutton Valence School celebrated some excellent results, with 17% gainingAs or A*s. For the second year, the A*-B
pass rate was 70%, despite Ofqual limiting grade inflation by reduc- ing the number of A grades awarded since 2010. Every candidate passed their exams, with 86% gaining A*-C. The independent school had 44% achieving the top ABB results re- quired by the UK’s leading re- search universities (the Russell Group). 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 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 was the first time anyMGSstudent had 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. Valley Park School had a record
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. Eighty per cent of sixth-formers
at Swadelands, in Lenham, cele- brated gaining an A grade in at least one of their subjects, with 69% achieving top grades in two. A record number secured places at university in subjects including oc- cupational therapy, criminology, dance, media and sport. Shannon Higerty, Harvey Willis
and Danny Cook gained five A-lev- els. All three plan to attend univer- sity in September. 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.” A third of sixth-formers at Oak-
wood Park Grammar School achieved A*-A grades. Rabey Chowdhury will take his
place at Cambridge, studying nat- ural 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 do mathematics at Warwick University, while Nelson will study physics at Imperial Col- lege, London. Great Britain fencer Simon Dacey managed to combine the rigours of training with his studies and after achieving four As will be taking a gap year prior to studying chem- istry or biochemistry at a university 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 London. Maplesden Noakes School,in Maidstone, reported “outstanding results”, showing “year-on-year improvement” in its results. Michaela Porter earned two A*s
Cornwallis students Amy Pearce, Harry Gol- lop, Shottie Hopkins, and head girl Rebecca Hubbard
and an A, securing a place atWar- wick University; Jordhan State earned aDistinction*, 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 in sports studies.
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