Outstanding GCSE students from Avonbourne and Harewood Colleges. From left to right: Jorden Hardwick, Ben Aylward, Berkay Yildrim, Daria Zglinska, Camila Rocha and Mariya Savranska.
Avonbourne Trust is celebrating some great GCSE success stories from its two colleges in Bournemouth.
The Trust, an early adopter of the government’s new Progress 8 performance measure, has seen many results improve on last year.
Avonbourne College, the Trust’s secondary school for girls aged 11 to 16, saw 65% of its students achieve A* to C grades in English and Maths, up six per cent on last year.
The college also achieved its best ever English Baccalaureate (EBACC) score.
Thirty per cent achieved A* to C in the core academic subjects that make up the EBACC – English, maths, history or geography, the sciences and a language – up four per cent on last year (26%) and seven per cent higher than last year’s national average (22.9%).
Avonbourne also scored well in Progress 8 which demonstrates students exceeding the level they were at when they joined the school in Year 7.
They scored +.31, which is above the national government target of -0.5.
Its Attainment 8 score – which shows the average points achieved by all students in eight key subjects – was 5, or the equivalent of a C grade.
Among its individual success stories were:
Daria Zglinska who achieved 15 GCSEs including 10 at grade A* or A. She also gained a grade A in AS Polish.
Marelize Abercrombie and Camila Rochawho both gained 14 GCSEs which included 10 at grade A* or A.
Mariya Savranska gained 13 GCSEs which included 5 A*s, 7As and a B.
Sophie Pickering who achieved 14 GCSEs – eight of which were A* or A grades.
And Jorden Hardwick gained 14 GCSEs which included nine grade As.
Outstanding GCSE student from Avonbourne College Daria Zglinska.
Fellow Trust school Harewood College, for boys aged 11-16, also scored above the national threshold in its Progress 8 score (-.16).
Its Attainment 8 score was 4 (the equivalent of a D grade) and 46% of its students achieved A* to C grades in English and Maths – up six per cent on last year.
Among its individual success stories were:
Ryan Shanks achieved 12 GCSEs including, 2 A*s and 5 As.
Berkay Yildrim achieved 12 GCSEs including 2 As and 8 Bs.
Ben Aylward achieved 12 GCSEs including, 3 As and 3 Bs.
Elliott Pardoe achieved 12 GCSEs including, 1 A and 9 Bs.
Outstanding GCSE students from Harewood College pictured with head of Harewood College David Bromfield
CEO of Avonbourne Trust, Debbie Godfrey-Phaure, said: “I’d like to congratulate all our students and staff who have worked so hard all year.
“Their dedication has paid off and every single one of them should be proud of what they have achieved.”
Note to editors:
2016 is the first year for new government benchmarks for GCSEs:
The measure on which the floor standard is based will be Progress 8. This reports on the relative progress made by students between the ages of 11 and 16. A school’s Progress 8 score is derived by first calculating another new headline measure – Attainment 8.
Attainment 8 reports on the achievement of students across a defined basket of 8 qualifications.
Attainment 8 points explained:
|
GCSE (BTEC) grade |
2016 points | 2017 points |
| A* (Distinction*) | 8 | 8.5 |
| A (Distinction) | 7 | 7 |
| B (Merit) | 6 | 5.5 |
| C (Pass) | 5 | 4 |
| D | 4 | 3 |
| E | 3 | 2 |
| (BTEC L1 Pass) | 2.5 | 1.75 |
| F | 2 | 1.5 |
| G | 1 | 1 |
As well as Attainment 8 and Progress 8, the other headline measures are:
- the percentage achieving a C grade or better in English and mathematics. From 2017 this becomes the percentage obtaining grade 5 or better.
- the percentage achieving the English Baccalaureate.
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