GCSE results day 2022: St Mary’s School

Pupils at St Mary’s School in Cambridge received a stellar set of results today (Thursday) with one student named highest performer in the country in the GCSE geography A examination by OCR.

An impressive 90 per cent of grades awarded to students were at grades 9 - 5 (A*-B) and 66 per cent at 9-7 (A* or A).

This year gave St Mary’s students the opportunity to shine with the return to traditional exams.

St Mary’s staff say students approached their GCSEs with confidence and resilience, securing excellent results, which will ensure this cohort of ‘lockdown learners’ can look ahead to a very bright future:

St Mary’s student, Anna L, was impressively named the highest performing student nationwide in GCSE geography A by examination board OCR – an incredible achievement. There were other individual successes throughout the year group with some students overcoming great personal challenges.

Elsewhere 49 per cent of results were at grade 9, with 66 per cent at grades 9-7 and 90 per cent at grades 9-5. An impressive 96 per cent of grades were at grades 9-4.

Director of teaching and learning Kate Latham said: “As a high performance learning school, our whole approach to education encourages students to develop attributes such as resilience, agility and flexibility. We feel this has set our students in good stead for a hugely positive return to ‘normal’ GCSE examinations this year and I am so delighted to see them succeed.”

Headmistress Charlotte Avery said: “A huge congratulations to all our Year 11 students today, on a fantastic set of results – you should be proud of your achievements. Our students demonstrated such determination and flexibility over the last few years, seamlessly switching between remote learning and in-school lessons.

“Despite the uncertainty we’ve all experienced, the sheer resilience of our students has shone through and will continue to stand them in great stead for the future. We look forward to welcoming many of our pupils back to start their A Levels at St Mary’s in September. Well done girls!”