Whitburn Church of England Academy pupils celebrate GCSE success

Whitburn Church of England Academy pupils have been collecting their GCSE results.

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00:00OK, I'm going to start by asking how you feel about this year's results and just yet any

00:04headline figures please.

00:05Yeah, I'm absolutely thrilled and we're really pleased with what the students have achieved

00:09this year. We're looking at 9 to 4s and 5 or more subjects at 70%. Now bearing in mind

00:15this particular cohort had most of year 7 and year 8 completely disrupted. These years

00:20are the foundation years for education. It's where routines, where behaviours, where relationships

00:25are established and these weeks and months were missed by these students so they've done

00:29fantastically well to achieve the results they've gained this year.

00:32OK, now let's just give me a breakdown of what you've got then.

00:36OK, so I've got 7 9s, 3 8s and then 1 7.

00:41Now, I saw your reaction when you opened the envelopes. How did you feel when you first

00:45saw your results?

00:46Very relieved, very happy, very proud that I've kind of got what I've, you know what

00:51I mean, needed. So I'm really happy, yeah.

00:53How do you feel coming in this morning?

00:56Very anxious, very like, kind of just wanting, a bit of mixed, like kind of want to just

01:00get it done but also I really want to like, yeah, I didn't really want to like see them

01:05but I'm really happy now, really good.

01:08OK then Caitlin, how did you feel coming in this morning for your results?

01:11I was really nervous and scared.

01:13And what did you get for your results then?

01:15I got 2 7s, 4 8s and 4 9s.

01:19And so how did you feel when you opened the envelope?

01:21Like, it was like crazy, like it was so surreal, like I didn't expect it at all.

01:27And what are you going to go and study now at Sixth Form?

01:29Biology, Chemistry and Psychology.