The Portsmouth Academy

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Dan Botting, executive principle and regional director of The Portsmouth Academy, has said it has been really nice watching students open their GCSE results.

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00:00Okay, so first of all, we'll start with your introduction.

00:02Tell us who you are, what the school is, and what's the vibe been like?

00:08So I'm Dan Botting. I'm the Executive Principal here at the Portsmouth Academy

00:11and also Regional Director for Thinking Schools Academies Trust here in Portsmouth.

00:16And here at the Portsmouth Academy, we've had a really successful GCSE results day.

00:21It's been really positive to see our students opening their results envelopes.

00:26Just the culmination of so many years of hard work that they've put in,

00:29and it's really a testament to their dedication and perseverance.

00:33Excellent. And also, we've been witnessing a lot of the happiness and sadness as well,

00:39a lot of mixed reactions.

00:40But overall, it's been a good result?

00:44Yeah, overall, we're really pleased with the results for the students

00:46because what it does is it just gives them those opportunities to go on to the next stage.

00:51And it's always going to be an emotional day for them.

00:53And we've certainly seen those who've opened to some really positive surprises

00:58and just, you know, how on earth did I achieve as well as that?

01:01And it's caused a few to have to rethink a little bit about what those next steps might be,

01:05that actually, no, they really did have that talent for mathematics after all,

01:08even if they didn't quite believe it all the way along.

01:11And as a school itself, were there any challenges or anything that,

01:15things that you've done extra to help at least do this?

01:18Yeah. So this cohort of year 11 students, you know, we've got to remember,

01:23they started secondary school with lockdowns and, you know, really being influenced by the pandemic.

01:28So our team here worked incredibly hard, not just in terms of building that subject knowledge,

01:33but also that confidence and that kind of sense of, you know, togetherness as a cohort here at the school.

01:42And whether that's been through, yeah, absolutely, the study sessions, the hard work, all the revision,

01:47but also, you know, the exam breakfasts, getting them fired up in the mornings, ready to go into those exams.

01:53We've really, you know, kept supporting them all the way through the course of their studies.

01:58And today is really, you know, the proof of the impact that that can have.

02:02That's pretty cool.

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