New Hall School Results Booklet 2021-22

RESULTS BOOKLET

GCSE RESULTS

New Hall School celebrated outstanding GCSE results in 2022. Staff and parents praised the students for both their excellent academic results and their resilience over the year.

Mrs Minnis, Head of Girls’ & Boys’ Divisions, shared her thoughts on the Class of 2022: “After the hiatus of the last two years, I am delighted to celebrate these excellent results with our students and their families. The hard work and determination of both students and staff, through thick and thin, have paid off and the students should be very proud of their achievements. The holistic education offered by the School provides the best possible preparation for our students to continue their studies in the Sixth Form.”

Outstanding achievers include many boarding students. Vice Principal, Mr Sidwell, said: “The benefits of boarding at New Hall are reflected in this year’s GCSE results, with a staggering 108 grades at 8+ (equivalent to A*) and a further 73 grade 7s (equivalent to A) achieved by the 30 boarders in this year group. The strong pastoral and academic support offered to our boarders have led to their gaining these excellent GCSE results. The time saved by taking away daily travel to and from School, as well as the dedicated study time and outof-hours help from academic staff enable our boarding students to excel in the classroom as well as to enjoy the full co-curricular programme of activities offered daily at New Hall.”

GCSE RESULTS

One fifth at the highest Level 9

40% of grades 8+ (A*)

We are extremely proud of our students’ superb GCSE successes. Today’s results evidence the effectiveness of the ‘diamond model’ of education, in which girls and boys are taught separately from the ages of 11-16. The results are also testament to the hard work and resilience shown by the students and staff, throughout the challenges of the past few years.

92% of grades at 5+

60% of all grades at

(A*/A)

Katherine Jeffrey, Principal

A LEVEL RESULTS

It is wonderful to see our students excitement today, after all their hard work. We are delighted to hear that so many of our students have secured places at their first choice universities, including competitive Russell Group university courses in subjects such as Law, Engineering and Medicine. The

university and apprenticeship places that New Hall students have gained reflect the holistic education that the School offers, from Humanities to Medicine, and Engineering to Languages.

75% of students secured their first choice of university

396 A Levels taken with 100% success rate

57% of grades were A*/A

A quarter of grades at A* 82% of grades at A*-B

Katherine Jeffrey, Principal

A LEVEL RESULTS 2022

Our four Heads of School celebrate their results: Deputy Head Girl, Theology & Religion, Keble College, Oxford. Deputy Head Boy, Business and Management, John Snow College, Durham. Head Girl, Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Head Boy, History, Exeter College, Oxford.

For 2022, New Hall Sixth Form students celebrated another year of excellent A Level results and success in achieving the university and apprenticeship places of their choice.

Two records were set: 57% of grades at A*/A and a quarter of all grades at the highest level of A*. Once again, New Hall announces a 100% success rate overall in 396 A Levels sat, results which included students achieving 100% in a number of A Level papers.

The Head Girl & Boy have secured places at Cambridge and Oxford, with the Deputy Head Girl & Boy achieving their first choice offers from Oxford and Durham respectively.

Vice Principal, Dr Tiffen, said: “These students have performed exceptionally well. Having missed their GCSE examinations, this is the first time in their secondary education that they have sat formal external examinations, so the pressure was immense, especially after the past two years of interruptions through lockdowns. Our results are a testament to the hard work, resilience and ambition of both our students and staff who moved to online education with the enthusiasm and commitment they show in everything they do. We are delighted to share in the joy of our students today, as they find out that they have the grades needed to take up the university places of their choice, as well as other competitive professional and vocational courses and schemes. I am so proud of them.”

UNIVERSITY PLACES

MDV SUCCESS

New Hall also has a proven record of support for students looking to study Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MDV). Over the last five years, students have secured places at the following institutions:

Medicine St John’s College, University of Cambridge

Medicine University of Southampton Medicine Hull York Medical School

Medicine UCL Medicine Cardiff University

Medicine University of Manchester

Medicine Keele University

Medicine University of Nottingham Veterinary Medicine University of Nottingham Veterinary Medicine Royal Veterinary College

OXBRIDGE SUCCESS

In recent years, students have been successful in gaining places at Oxford and Cambridge to read the following (in some instances, more than one New Hallian attended the same college for the same subject):

Architecture Darwin College, Cambridge Biochemistry Hertford College, Oxford Biological Sciences St Catherine’s College, Oxford Classics Newnham College, Cambridge Classics Regent’s College, Oxford Economics with Finance Gonville & Caius, Cambridge Engineering Jesus College, Cambridge English Newnham College, Cambridge French & Spanish Clare College, Cambridge History Trinity College, Cambridge History Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge History Downing College, Cambridge History Exeter College, Oxford History & Politics Trinity College, Cambridge HSPS Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Law Magdalen College, Oxford Mathematics St Peter’s College, Oxford Medicine St John’s College, Cambridge Medicine Robinson College, Cambridge Music St Peter’s College, Oxford Politics, Philosophy & Economics Christ Church, Oxford Spanish with Russian Churchill College, Cambridge Theology & Religion Mansfield College, Oxford Theology & Religion Keble College, Oxford

Did you know?

At Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Dr Pippa Rogerson is the first female Master in the college’s 669-year history... and she is also a New Hallian!

MOST ABLE & TALENTED

New Hall School has a thriving programme of activities that stretches and challenges our most academically able. We believe that the learning habits required to achieve academic success can be nurtured in all our students and that even the most able can develop to even higher levels when set intellectual challenges and opportunities to think creatively.

This performance can be illustrated by comparing the performance of our most academically able students (those in the top sets/top third of their cohorts) in Years 11 and 13.

2022

Results from 2020-21 are unavailable as formal examinations did not take place. Data for GCSE 2022 is not yet available.