the culfordian
academic achievements
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senior school Examination Success at A2 and AS
Once again our pupils have achieved extremely impressive results at A2, AS and GCSE. Many pupils gained suites of top grades and numerous pupils achieved superb grades in relation to their ability level. Yet again results indicated that while innate aptitude is of course pivotal, focused and consistent hard work throughout is even more important. At A level 30% of all grades were A*/A and 61% were A*/B. These percentages were higher than last year which is excellent news because there is no doubt that examination boards have yet again made the top grade boundaries significantly tougher. The following pupils were our top performers: Katie Andrews AAB Kate Balding A*AA (+A EPQ) Stephen Blacklock AAB Emily Buckingham ABB Isabel Davies A*AA Georgia Day AAB Elim Feng ABBA Ruth Friswell AAAA (+A EPQ) Abi Greenall A*AA James Hamilton AAB Katie Hargreaves AAB Anastasia A*ABA Holovenko Emily Hounsome AAB Tash McCaffrey A*A*B Annabel Muir AAB Loui Ogunfowora AAAA Tristan Rawcliffe AAA Eloise Werrell ABB 26
Extended Project Qualification
Four pupils completed a Level 3 Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). Kate Balding wrote a fascinating essay on how the English language has developed in line with social changes, and Annabel Muir used her experiences on the Culford Malawi trip in 2013 to inform her investigation of the relationship between the status of women and the prevalence of HIV in Malawi. Emily Hounsome wrote about Shakespeare’s representation of madness in his plays, while Ruth Friswell built a model of the perfect study/social bedroom in her project about student accommodation. All four pupils wrote essays, devoted hours to research and made successful presentations to the Lower Sixth. The qualification helps pupils gain extra UCAS points and is increasingly being looked on favourably by universities because of the independent learning skills the pupils gain. They all believe that the qualification meant more than this,
since it gave them the opportunity to immerse themselves in something they found interesting. For the Lower Sixth AS results were promising and below are some of our excellent performers: Molly Braithwaite ABBB Nathaniel Chan Kieran Dibley Ewan Evans Will Horsnell Elliot Phillips Miranda Wang
Ellie Weller-Poley
AAAB (+A Chinese) ABBB AABB AAAB ABBB AAA (+A in A2 Maths) AAAB
Mr Johnson-Munday said: “We are delighted with this set of excellent results, which are just reward for the significant amount of effort pupils and teachers alike put into preparing for these important examinations. The high number of very good individual results is very pleasing.”