Jackie Sharman, head of Weydon School and Ben Wish, one of the vice-principals

Jackie Sharman, head of Weydon School and Ben Wish, one of the vice-principals discuss the school's GCSE results

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00:00Right, yes, go ahead.

00:02I'm Ben Wish, my first principal of Waden School.

00:05And I'm Ben Wish, my first principal of Waden School.

00:07So very, very proud today.

00:09Right, what's made you so proud?

00:11I just think the results that these students have achieved was absolutely amazing.

00:17They were great New Zealand that they had at very different times.

00:21So they did six years of SATs.

00:24And then they had a very different start to secondary school.

00:27And despite all of that, they had absolutely gone.

00:30I cried.

00:31Incredible.

00:32So they are the Covid youngsters.

00:37They were really very disruptive.

00:40And they've done exceptionally well.

00:43So they came here in September 2020 then?

00:46Yes.

00:47Yes.

00:48Yes, they've done very well.

00:51And what's the overall percentage of passes here?

00:56So at the moment we're looking at around 92% in terms of GCSEs from both 94, including English and maths.

01:03Yeah.

01:04Which we're really really proud of.

01:06We're also really proud of the amount of 9 to 7 grades.

01:09Yeah.

01:10So we're about 48% of our exam entries are GCSEs grade 9 to 7.

01:14But alongside that we're absolutely delighted with the young people they've become.

01:17Yeah.

01:18We've had a really really good year with them.

01:20And they've done incredibly well.

01:22They're fantastic role models I think for future year groups.

01:26And I think both of us are really really proud of the staff.

01:29The staff have worked exceptionally hard with the students.

01:31And it's a lovely day just to see students and staff alongside each other celebrating fantastic outcomes.

01:37Yeah.

01:38Wonderful.

01:39Thank you very much indeed.

01:40And well done everybody.

01:41Thank you very much indeed.

01:42Thank you very much.

01:43You are very impressed.

01:45Thank you very much everybody.