Queen Margaret’s School for Girls face the Future with Confidence
Key GCSE Figures from Queen Margaret’s School for Girls, York:
● 100% GCSE pass rate
● 94% of girls achieved or exceeded their target grades
● One third (33%) of all GCSE results at the School were the highly sought-after grade 9
● Two thirds (67%) of all GCSE results at the School were grades 9-7
● 97% of girls secured the all-important five or more results at grades 9-4
For the second time this week, students at Queen Margaret’s School for Girls have proven their will to succeed
with an exemplary set of results. As with A Levels on Tuesday, the School is delighted with another 100% pass
rate at GCSE. 97% of girls secured the all-important five or more results at grades 9-4, giving them a perfect
springboard for the future.
Queen Margaret’s (QM) Head, Sue Baillie, told us “Tuesday’s A Level results were quite rightly a cause for
celebration for our Upper Sixth cohort and today is just the same for our Year 11 girls. They have studied for
their GCSEs during two exceptionally unusual years but can face the future with confidence having achieved
fantastic results which reflect their resilience and talent”.
Today’s results from the day and boarding school in York span 26 different subjects; one third of all results
were the highly sought-after grade 9. Meanwhile, 94% of girls achieved or exceeded their target grades, which is
testament to the tailored support and encouragement girls receive in a smaller school like QM. They are results
of which everyone in the QM community can feel proud.
Results in practical subjects such as Drama, Sport, Music and Food Technology, which could quite easily have
suffered during lockdown, have been outstanding and the School attributes this to finding innovative methods of
teaching and keeping students engaged via its remote learning platform – QM Connect – during lockdown.
The Queen Margaret’s GCSE girls can now look forward to an enriching two years in the School’s Sixth Form,
where they will have the choice of 29 A Level subjects, can enjoy independent living in preparation for university
and will be able to get stuck into extra-curricular activities such as Leith’s Cookery Course, the National Pool
Lifeguard Qualification and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.
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