Newcastle School for Boys pupils secure exciting next steps
Pupils of Newcastle School for Boys today embark on a wide range of exciting next steps, following receipt of this morning’s post-16 exam results.
Pupils from the Gosforth-based, independent, boys’ school have successfully gained places on diverse range of university courses from Physics with Astrophysics, Law and Politics at prestigious Russell Group universities, to increasingly popular subjects such as Filmmaking, Marketing and Management, Sports Coaching and International Business at the local universities, Newcastle University and Northumbria as well as the University of Birmingham and Manchester Metropolitan.
The sixth form curriculum at Newcastle School for Boys places great focus on supporting its pupils in their own individual pathways, whatever their interests may be. Whilst many pupils still wish to pursue traditional academic courses, others’ passions lie in more vocational and creative routes. The School supports this through its offer of Cambridge Technical courses in its curriculum, as well as an enrichment programme that affords pupils work experience opportunities, sports coaching and finance qualifications, as well as the very popular Extended Qualification Programme.
Overall, in a year when nationally there were fewer top grades, at NSB nearly half (47.8%) of all grades were awarded at A* to B and over three-quarters (76.1%) at A* to C.
Mr David Tickner, Executive Head of Newcastle School for Boys, said of the results:
“‘As a cohort, it has undoubtedly been a challenging time, as a year group for whom this is their first ever set of external public examinations following the implementations of teacher assessed grades for their GCSES in 2021. We are very proud of the resilience and adaptability they have had to demonstrate in securing these results. We wish them the very best for the future.”
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