Results at Southmoor Academy Sixth Form continue to be exceptional
Results at Southmoor Academy Sixth Form, have continued to be exceptional as grading moves back towards its pre pandemic levels, with an impressive 86% of students managing a A* – C grade in their subjects. There have been many happy faces and students have some very exciting future destinations. Despite some of the alarming national headlines, the school is very pleased to be able to report that students’ achievements have remained in line with last year, with the number A -B grades being 2.2% above the national average.
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Students are off to study a wonderful variety of life-changing subjects including: BioMedical Science, Mathematics, English Literature, History, Music, Physics, Psychology, Modern Languages and Midwifery. There are even some more exotic courses being studied by their ambitious students such as Greek, Speech Therapy, Astrophysics, Political Sciences and many others!
Head Teacher, Joanne Maw commented:
“I am delighted to be able to congratulate our Year 13 students on their excellent achievements this year. I wish them every continued success for the future as they venture into Higher Education, employment, or training. Such excellent outcomes only occur as a result of the hard work from students, deep commitment from staff and fantastic support from parents and carers. I am grateful to everyone who has worked tirelessly to help our students on the road to success. We look forward to seeing what they achieve in the future!”
Some of the standout performances and destinations:
Year 13 students have secured a range of fantastic university places today following publication of their A-level results. Many have places to study at Russell Group institutions.
Estelle Onwuka will be studying English and Beginners’ Modern Greek at Oxford. Several students are heading to Durham including Adil Hussain to study BioSciences, Sam Ford and Jasmine Casey to study Psychology, and Adam Tempest to study Mathematics. Leona Barker and Abbie Swallow are venturing north to Edinburgh to study English Literature and History.
Some students are beginning competitive health care related courses including Kaitlyn Stewart who will be studying Midwifery at Leeds and Thea Sloanes who will be studying Speech and Language Therapy at Manchester. Jack Stead is also heading to Manchester to study Music.
A large number of students have secured places at Newcastle for a wide range of courses including Lainie Hulley who will study Linguistics, Neive Howat who will study Biomedical Science, Dan Duke who will study Psychology, Jonathan Cowgill who will study Modern Language, Translation and Interpretation, Millie Linton who will study English Language and Ethan Fisher who will study Physics with Astrophysics.
Four students are heading to York to study Sociology and Criminology (Grace Berry), History and Philosophy (Andii Poxton), Social and Political Sciences (Jess Robson) and English Language and Literature (York).
Headline Figures:
Pass rate 99.6 %
A*-C 86%
A*-B 55%
A*-A 24.5%
Average grade B
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