Crookhorn College GCSE results 2023

Head teacher Sarah Bennett praises students for their hard work and fantastic results

Transcript

00:00 could you introduce yourself and tell me what's happening here today?

00:03 Hi, my name is Sarah Bennett, I'm Head Teacher at Crokeham College and today we are celebrating

00:08 our Year 11 results. I think it would be fair to say that we were all dreading the results

00:14 this year, it being the first year that the government had decided to take everything

00:18 back to 2019 exam levels. And of course this cohort have really struggled as a result of

00:25 the pandemic missing, crucially Year 8 and Year 9 of their education, which provides

00:31 the foundations for what they're going to go on and learn for their GCSEs. But our students

00:37 have taken on board the challenge and by the end of the summer when they were sitting their

00:43 exams we were all so proud of the way in which they pulled themselves through and really

00:48 applied themselves to their studies. And their results today bear testament to the fact that

00:52 they never gave up and they kept going and they showed unbelievable resilience. So we

00:57 are all incredibly proud of them and they've got a lot to celebrate today.

01:01 Well that's great news for staff and the students and thank you very much for your help.