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March 2019
Celebrating Over a Quarter of a Century at the Top of the National Sixth Form College Performance Tables!
The results are in after a truly exciting election seeing twenty four candidates standing for council positions to lead and represent the student body through the 2019-20 academic year. Congratulations to everyone on the incoming council and to all who stood in a well-conducted campaign process. Throughout the campaigning, ingenuity and creativity were in evidence with puns-a-plenty. A personal favourite was Ayesha Whitworth’s clever ‘because you’re Whitworth it’ slogan and also our new Vice Chair, Iain Lynn’s campaign: inspired by local academic Dr Victoria Bateman’s use of her body as a campaigning focus, Iain daubed his torso with ‘Vote Lynn‘ for his campaign posters - although thankfully some modesty was preserved! While Performance Tables cannot fully measure an educational experience, it is nonetheless remarkable that Hills Road continues to head the Sixth Form College A level tables for ‘points per entry’, based on its 2018 exam results, as it has since their inception in 1992-93. ‘Points per entry’ is the measure of the A level score achieved for each exam entry made. For yet another year, the College’s score of 40.9 exceeded the B grade average So, as we bid farewell to our current score of 40. The College also retains its place at the top of the Sixth Form College Year 13 student council of 2018, we look ‘facilitating subjects’ table, which is based on back at another successful and productive the percentage of students achieving at least group whose crowning achievement must surely be the creation of the much loved AAB at A level including at least two of the Hills Road App, designed and coded by our Russell Group’s ‘facilitating subjects’ which is outgoing communications officer Brendan the group of subjects very similar to the EBacc Coll. The baton has been passed and we group at GCSE (Maths, English, Sciences, now look to our new council of 2019 to fill Humanities and Languages). the large shoes of councils before them. Huge congratulations to incoming Chair Ogechukwu Nwoka and his team of Vice Chair - Iain Lynn, Secretary - Laila Hatcher, Treasurer - Malu Nair, Events Officer - Joy Sidhom, Charities Officer - Ellen Olley, Societies - Davina Ogunsanwo, Welfare, Equality and Diversity Arjun Sanghera, Environment - James Desmet, Communications & Social Media - Ed Harris. We look forward to seeing all that you go on to achieve!
Incoming Student Council 2019
College Principal, Jo Trump, said “While there is so much that we offer as a College that can’t be measured, and it’s important not to fall into thinking that the only valuable aspects of an education are those that can, it is nonetheless an absolutely astonishing achievement for one institution to have held its place at the top of the league tables for so many years. It says so much about the sustained ethos and high expectations held by everyone connected with this College community that it’s possible to continue to deliver at such a high level for over a quarter of a century.” “I am so pleased for all the young people behind these statistics who were able to access their first choice progression route with their excellent results and also pleased for the staff who worked with them to achieve those progression goals.”