GCSE day at St Aidan's

Students have been receiving their results at the school's Briary centre

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00:00And Marie Whitten is the deputy head, soon to be head I understand, here at St Aidan's.

00:04How have we done? Oh we've done incredibly well. As always we're really proud of our young boys.

00:09We've got 25 percent of all of our grades were grades seven to nine which in the old money was

00:14A star to A. We've booked national trend as always with our students doing well despite

00:20national boys not always performing as well as others. We've also got a really good progress

00:24from our disadvantaged and our students with additional needs. So as always we're really proud

00:30of what our young people have achieved and we know that this comes from their dedication, hard work

00:34and the support from our staff. Kendrick's MMA is here at St Aidan's. What are the results like

00:40this morning? I'm actually really unexpected with these grades. I got a few nines and eights.

00:46Better than we expected? Yeah. Brilliant. Congratulations. Thank you. And what's the

00:49plan from here on in? I plan to go to sixth form, study maths, physics and probably computer science.

00:58Elliot Pugh have we done as well as expected? Yeah I've got two nines and lots of eights and

01:02sevens. That's excellent. Congratulations. What's the next stage? I plan to go to sixth form and do

01:08biology, sport and spanish. And what would you like to do in the long term? Go to university and then be a sports physio.

01:13Ewan Wilson are we celebrating today? Yeah I'm really happy with what I've got. What have we got?

01:20Four nines, well the equivalent of four nines and a few eights and sevens. So really happy with it.

01:25Excellent. Congratulations. And what's the plan now? I'm going to go to sixth form and do maths, further maths,

01:30physics and chemistry. And what would you like to do in the long term? I'm not sure yet but I want to go

01:35on to university to study like a maths basic thing. Cool job. I understand we've exceeded expectations

01:42this morning. Yeah that's true. Since year seven I've only seen my grades go up recently and I'm

01:48very glad I've been in St Aidan's in order to exceed those expectations. And how have we done? Overall

01:54like quite good. I've been able to get nines, eights, sixes but yeah I'm very proud of myself.

01:59Brilliant. And what happens next? A levels in the St Aidan's sixth form. Any subjects in particular?

02:06Philosophy and theology, computer science and maths. I was able to get the maths result I wanted.

02:12David Gracie is here at St Aidan's. How have we done? I've done quite well. One seven, some eights and two nines.

02:18And what's the plan from here? To go to sixth form. I want to study maths, physics and philosophy.

02:24With a view to doing what in the long term? Astrophysics.