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Increased numbers of Learn Devon GCSE adult learners celebrate their achievements

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 08/16/2021 - 11:18pm

The number of GCSE adult learners across the county gaining GCSE qualifications has increased this year, despite another year of disruption caused by the pandemic.

110 learners attained their GCSE qualifications with Learn Devon this year, up by 15% from the previous academic year.

Under usual circumstances, adult learners at Learn Devon would meet at one of their learning centres, however, for the second year, they have met via a video link to celebrate with their tutors. The learners have completed the intensive ten-month maths and English GCSE courses and have been...

Class of 2021 look to life beyond Exeter School

The Exeter School community congratulates the Class of 2021 on their A Level achievement, showing great resilience during a pandemic.

This year’s cohort of young people, supported by their teachers, pastoral staff, friends, and family have tackled the challenges of learning in new ways with characteristic determination and vigour.

Exeter School Head Louise Simpson acknowledged the huge amount of hard work by pupils, which has enabled them to continue to make excellent progress over the last two academic years, preparing them for their future beyond school.

Ms...

Adult learner GCSE graduates celebrate success

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 08/25/2020 - 2:49pm

Adult learners are among those celebrating well-earned GCSE results, having completed their maths and English qualifications with Learn Devon, Devon County Council's adult learning service. Since March, Learn Devon has changed the way it delivers adult learning courses to ensure that learners continue with their learning safely. Their results mark the end of the intensive ten month GCSE courses. Under normal circumstances, adult learners receive their results in person from their tutors, but due to coronavirus, this year they had their results emailed to them. The video (attached) records...

Students from Queen Elizabeth's School, Crediton received their GCSE results

Crediton's Queen Elizabeth's School releases 2020 GCSE results - Students are right to feel proud of their achievements

QE GCSE students received their results, at the school’s Western Road campus, this morning.

Rupert Poole, Principal at QE said: “There was a fantastic atmosphere in school this morning as students came in to collect their results. Whilst the method used to award students their grades this year was different, none of that should be allowed to get in the way of recognising the achievements of our young people. They have worked hard on their studies throughout their time in school and their results demonstrate this.

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them...

Holly Maynard, Exeter School, A-levels

Consistently good results for Exeter School

Exeter School congratulates its Upper Sixth pupils on their very pleasing A Level results at the end of what has been a most challenging year for them.

Staff at the co-educational independent school for girls and boys from 7-18 years are proud of the Year 13 cohort for their hard work, dedication and positivity over the last few months.

The year group succeeded in scoring 84% A*AB grades which is in line with the school’s consistently high achievements over the last decade.

Headmaster Bob Griffin expressed sympathy with our A Level pupils, whose school careers...

Child using Numerise at home

Sparx launches national maths pilot Numerise to boost maths learning at home

Authored by AmySutton
Posted: Fri, 05/15/2020 - 1:20pm

Personalised maths programme is powered by proven AI technology and incorporates Secondary Ready , providing maths support for children starting secondary school in September

Sparx – the socially focused learning technology company – has launched a national pilot for Numerise , an online, home-learning maths product for 10 to 16 year old's covering Key Stage 3 and GCSE Maths. To support parents with the current challenges of remote schooling, Numerise is available free-of-charge over the summer period.

Numerise draws on a bank of over 38,000 handwritten questions and 9,000...

Childline helps rising number of young people with exam result fears

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 08/19/2019 - 7:49am

A growing number of young people are turning to Childline, deeply worried about their exam results.

In 2018/19, the NSPCC-service 1,414 counselling sessions to children and teenagers apprehensive about their grades – rising by more than a half over the past four years.

Concern peaked in August, with a fifth of counselling sessions taking place during the month when young people receive their A-Level and GCSE results.

Reasons for young people seeking help from Childline include worries about whether they will get the grades they need to get into university and not...

The Maynard excels under the new GCSE grading system

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 08/23/2018 - 11:41pm

After the success of last week’s A-Level results, The Maynard School is thrilled to have achieved another outstanding set of results at GCSE level. In a year of uncertainty and change with the well-publicised reforms to the Year 11 examination system, our students have performed superbly to triple the national average of the top grades of 7, 8 and 9.

There were some remarkable results across the academic departments; of the girls taking Physics, an enormous 90% achieved grades 7-9, the equivalent of an A or A* (and 43% gaining the top scoring grade 9). In fact, across all three...

Outstanding GCSE results for Colyton Grammar School

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 08/23/2018 - 11:22am

Students, parents and staff at Colyton Grammar School are celebrating outstanding GCSE results, which have seen the school outperform the national average by some considerable margin.

In all, 87% of students who sat GCSEs this year achieved the top three grades of 9 to 7. 99% achieved grades 9 to 5, and 40% achieved a grade 9, ten times the national average of 4%.

Some 21 students achieved the coveted eight or more subjects with grade 9, around 18% of this year’s GCSEs cohort. This compares to the national predicted result for this achievement of 0.2%.

Across...

Exeter College celebrates its best ever set of academic results, again!

Exeter College is again celebrating its best ever set of academic A Level Results today - with students setting a new record for the number of the very highest results, well in excess of all national averages.

Students at the college from across Devon and beyond recorded exceptional results - a new college record of 61% of A Level students achieved the highest (A*, A, B) grades, well above the average in England of 52.7%.

The college saw an overall pass rate of 99.5% at A Level, 86% A*-C grades, with 29 subjects achieving a 100% pass rate, including Biology, Chemistry,...

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