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Office staff share in James’s anguish!
H E R E a t th e Clitheroe Advertiser and I ta e s , we experienced first hand the agony o f waiting for those a l l - im p o r ta n t ex am results. Our work experience stu
dent, James Peters (pic tured), is just beginning his second year in the sixth form at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and, in common with hundreds of other students
level results last Thursday. For readers unfamiliar
with the current system, sixth form students now sit AS- levels at the end of then- first year followed by A-levels in the second year. More subjects are studied
across the Ribble Valley, received his long-awaited AS-
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in the first year and students can drop some to concentrate on their best subjects at A- level. But the AS-level results are carried forward to count
as part of the student’s final
grade. As Thursday approached,
we made the agony of wait ing worse for poor James by asking him to write the fol lowing piece on what it is like waiting for results that could change your life’s direction. Incidentally, to find out
how he, and his colleagues at CRGS went on, look him up in the results listed on page 17.
, , The worst part by tar is the waiting “MUCH is made of the post-AS-level
• dash to either switch subjects for the second year or apply to a decent univer sity. Plenty of emphasis is also placed on
the emotions experienced after the results have been handed out: the joy and exuberance at having achieved good grades, or the agony of failure. However, the worst part of AS results
continues to be the waiting, treading water in the week or so preceding the day that could decide the rest of your life. Admittedly, the results of second-year
exams are widely accepted to be more important, but that does not cause the nerves and occasional butterflies in the
Artist’s work on show
A SELF-TAUGHT artist from Chtheroe will exhibit at the British Society of Painters’ autumn exhibi tion being held in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, next month. Susan Tattersall, of
Bawdlands, Clitheroe, who has been painting for 10 years in watercolours and oils, and is now teach ing watercolour painting at adult education level, has entered several works. The exhibition will be
open daily from noon to 5 p.m. at Kings Hall/Winter Garden in Ilkley from Sat urday, September 11th to Sunday, September 19th. • To obtain two special
tickets, which will allow entry and a free catalogue for the price of one - £1 for each person, send a stamped self addressed envelope to BSP, 16 Chantry R oa d , Ilkley, LS29 9HU.
Vandals strike
VANDALS scratched the rear offside door of a Ford Fusion parked in Abbey Road, Whalley. The incident happened
between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. last Wednesday, causing £200 of damage. .Pqlice are . making
inquiries A warm welcome for Polish pals by Duncan Smith
L IN K S between a Ribble Valley h igh s ch o o l and a n o th e r in Poland have been renewed and strengthened through a visit by 14 Polish students and two teach ers. St Augustine’s RC High School, in
Billington, played host to the visitors during theeir week-long stay. It was the third exchange between
St Augustine’s and “ Gymnajzium 25” , in Krakow, during the past seven years. The Polish students stayed with local Year 9 pupils and their families. A very successful welcome disco
was held at the school and the young guests, who all spoke good English, settled in quickly. A full programme of activities was
arranged throughout the week, the costs met by the school’s PTFA, school funds and donations from industry. Particular thanks go to Castle
Cement, Rectella International, Rufus Carr (Ford) and Sainsbury’s, who contributed in various ways to the provision of activities both in school and the surrounding region. The first outing was a guided tour
of Whalley by the Rev. Chris Sterry, who gave them a brief history of the village from its earliest times. Other visits included trips to the
Lake District, Skipton Castle and market, Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Quarry Bank Mill. A group of Year 9 pupils from St
Augustine’s is already looking for ward to visiting their new friends in Poland later this year. In other news from the busy
school, a party of 60 Year 8 pupils, accompanied by five members of staff and a group of Year 10 pupils on work experience as mentors, set out for a week of action and reflec tion at Castlerigg This beautiful house, set in its own
extensive grounds in Keswick, belongs to the Roman Catholic Dio cese of Lancaster and is used exclu sively for youth retreats. During their stay the pupils will
had ample opportunity to explore the local area including boat trips and hill walks.
■There was an emphasis on team
building and opportunities for prayer and contemplation in a lovely chapel designed for a young congregation. Our picture shows the Polish
pupils enjoying their experience of English school life at St Augustme’s in Biilington. (s)
stomach of an AS student to disappear. The questions running through your
mind are endless: Will I get the grades? Why did I not do more work through out the year? And most importantly, how will I feel if I fail everything? These questions are impossible to
answer until after the event. The results speak for themselves and
there is absolutely no way to tell how you will react to poor grades until you have received them - many people con vince themselves that they won’t care, only to feel absolutely devastated when the day dawns. Another problem is how to evaluate
your own performance in the exams. One option is to tell yourself how
“ CRACKING” was how the head master at Blackburn’s Queen Eliza beth’s Grammar School described the A-level results gained by his stu
dents. Among the school’s top scorers was
Langho’s Richard Benson. He was one of eight QEGs’ pupils to achieve A grades in every subject
^ gy, chemistry, geography and general
well you have done, which dilutes the pre-results day nerves, but almost always leads to disappointment. The other way, favoured by many
students, including myself, is to predict yourself relatively low grades in rela tion to your ability. This has the benefit of ensuring that
disappointment upon receiving the results is kept to a minimum, as expec tations were not high, but the feeling before the grades are published is tor turous in its intensity. So, despite the fact that the search
for a university can be viewed as diffi cult and arduous, after weeks of wait ing it is also something of a relief to know, whatever the outcome.”
studies. Congratulating aU his school’s A-
level candidiates, headmaster Dr
WAITING over for
CRGS boys John Rush- ton, Tanzil Aslam, Ziad Khaliq, Faheem Has- san, Sycd Hassan and Gareth Taylor. (T210804/ld)
Yet more ‘cracking’ results
David Hempsall said: “Most of our students take five AS subjects, rather than four, in Lower Sixth Form. “ Our view has always been that
this gives them an excellent ground ing for A2 Levels.
’’With nearly two-thirds of QEGS
students achieveing top grades at A 2 ,1 think we have conclusive evi dence that our approach really works. “ I t may seem v ery boring and
repetitive to say this year after year, but this is yet another cracking set of A-level results by QEGS students.”
Re^oh I I 15
RELIEVED CRGS
students Bernard Stewart,
Leigh Stott, Katy Sand-
ham, Rebec ca Child,
Claire Wood and Jenny Donnelly
(T210804/1Q
Bingo buddies shed pounds
BINGO buddies Amanda Townsend and Karen Brayshaw are continuing to successfully shed pounds in time for next year’s London Marathon. In May o f this year,
Mrs Townsend (32), who initially weighed 20st. 51b., and Karen Brayshaw (40), both of Siddows Avenue, Clitheroe, scrapped an unhealthy diet to get fit for next year’s 26-mile race. The couple were also
looking for sponsors in a bid to raise a staggering £10,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Three months later, the
duo, nicknamed “ the fat birds” by their bingo-play ing friends, are continuing to follow a fitness p ro gramme set by a personal trainer at Lee Carter Health Studio, in Lower- gate, and have continued to keep away from “ cer tain” favourite foods. Mrs Townsend has lost
three stones since she started the diet and the pair continue to walk/jog six miles every day and swim 100 lengths each
week. Despite Mrs Brayshaw
recently undergoing major surgery, which meant a three-week stay in hospi tal, she has managed to shrink from a size 28 to an amazing size 14. The mother-of-two, who
previously smoked 20 cigarettes a day, has not only quit, but is off the nicotine patches as well. As well as training rigor
ously for the race, the pals are working towards their target o f £10,000 and have so far raised £1,200. In a bid to raise more
cash for the charity, they will be holding a car boot sale and tombola on Sun day at the Clitheroe Auc tion Mart site.' If anyone would like to sponsor them or donate any items please call 01200 4^546.
■ THE lucky winner of a psur of tickets to travel on the Edinburgh Festival Coast to Coast Grand Tour train this Bank Holiday Saturday was Mrs C. M. Haworth, of Union Street, Clitheroe. She gave the correct answer of the West Coast Line.
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