Already the highest achieving sixth form college in London and top three nationally, we clocked up our best results in a decade this year.Principal John Rubinstein said “These results are our second highest ever at Woodhouse and are a huge credit to the enormous hard work put in by everyone right across the Woodhouse community. The traditional sport of the school is rugby and the London Oratory is commonly seen as a 'rugby school'. Others are heading into employment or other routes.‘We are delighted by another set of excellent results – the 2nd whole cohort in our collection. Good train services make it easy for London parents. 16 students got three or more A* grades.At least 15 students will be going to an Oxbridge University.An overall pass rate of 99.7% from 1993 exam entries (677 students).Highest achieving sixth form college in London and top three nationally.Pupils, parents and teachers were celebrating another strong set of A Level results at Queenswood this morning. There are plenty of opportunities for meaningful leadership roles through the Senior Prefect positions, where senior staff mentor pupils into the initial challenges of leadership and of taking on responsibility for others. We are proud of all of our students and would like to thank staff for their hard work and commitment. We know that there are tens of thousands more academically talented children in schools across the country who could be real candidates for university, and even perhaps an Oxbridge degree. Sixth Form pupils are expected to play a full part in the wider life of the School, especially its House, co-curricular and religious life. Others named Harry Black. It is an atmosphere in which the personalities of individual children are noticed and developed, and the 54 members of the academic staff ensure this happens. Yet selection doesn’t stop there. "I am so proud of our students and grateful to our staff, this years results are excellent and a testament to the hard work and commitment. Through its offer of a traditional, high currency set of A-levels and its wider curriculum, it aims to promote the intellectual virtues of studiousness and intellectual seriousness. With an A*/A rate at 35%, school performance continues to buck national trends, both in terms of outcomes and offer, in a toughening intellectual landscape. These results outshine any of the previous records of the school. Over 20% of girls achieved at least three A*-A grades and 64.1% of girls achieved A*-B grades across all 21 A Level subjects. Newman, who founded the Birmingham Oratory in 1848, wanted to set up a Catholic school on public-school lines. Both do very well in getting students into Sutton Trust 30 universities inc Oxbridge. Among the sports at the school is real tennis, a game that, according to pro-fessional Mark Eadle, ‘appeals to everyone, not only to the top sports players. Head teacher, Christian Hicks, said today, “Once again we have seen our students’ hard work over the past two years produce another set of outstanding A level and BTEC results. The latter form an important, integrated element of the School, and have been a much valued part of the Sixth form since its inception in 1970. We offer an education that is moral, in that we seek to form decent, honest characters, able to shoulder their responsibility, becoming a force for good in the world. Students: well done to you. Real tennis courts being a rarity (when it went up in 1989, it was the first to have been built in the UK for 80 years), The Oratory hosted the world championships in 2006. Particular individuals deserve special praise: Freya has achieved A*A*A*, Tiger and Ariane both gained A*A*A, and five further pupils achieved A*AA. But not every head master is Mr Dytor.Since then, the Catholic ethos has been brought to the fore. The following schools have not been included due to incomplete data: St Pauls (Barnes - Boys - Independent), The London Oratory School (Chelsea - Co-Ed - State), Channing School (Highgate - Girls - Independent), Harrodian School (Barnes - Co-Ed - Independent), Whitgift School (Croydon - Boys - Independent)Congratulations to all our students on their excellent A Level results!We are absolutely delighted with the A Level results our students have achieved this year. Head of School - Finlay Martin; Overview; History of the School; Governance; Policies; Downloads; Reports; News & Events The result, based on an intake of well-adjusted boys, is a happy school. As we walk along corridors and through courts, Mr Dytor, now in his MA’s gown, has a word for every boy he meets, congratulating one on his exam success, another on his rowing even encountering one of a pair of identical twins doesn’t throw him. 73% of all entries achieved A* to B, and 41% of entries gained A* to A – an increase of 4% from last year. Girls are looking forward to beginning a new chapter in their lives at top universities in the UK and across the world. Red-cheeked boys stand around in harlequin-patterned games kits, cheering lustily when their team lets go of the rope early and the masters collapse on to the ground. ‘Being Catholic is a fundamental part of our special character, and why parents choose us over other schools.’ In recent decades, Catholic families haven’t sought to maintain their sense of separation from the rest of society, happy for their children to be assimilated into the mainstream at conventional public schools.
Loreto College, a state funded Catholic sixth form in Manchester, got 11 offers from Mansfield College, Oxford and five from Cambridge's Magdalene College over three years. We offer an education that is âritualisticâ in that through the habits of worship we seek to open pupils to stillness, order and focus.
The scene suggests that this is a typical boys’ boarding school, with a healthy emphasis as The Oratory indeed has on games. Once again we are delighted to report that Graveney School Sixth Form students have achieved an outstanding set of results at A level. Courses to be studied include Economics (Cambridge), Maths (UCL and Kings), Philosophy (Durham), Chemical Engineering (Loughborough), Veterinary Science (Bristol) and Music (the Royal Academy of Music).Commenting on the results, Principal, Jo Cameron said “I am thrilled for the girls. It is not, at a time of credit crunch, every head master who could risk it.