PUPILS at The Grange School, Hartford have maintained their recent record of consistent and excellent results. Seventy eight per cent of all GCSE grades gained in this summer’s exams were awarded A or A* grades, over 45% at the highest grade.

Almost 43% of the students, that’s 41 out of 96, achieved nothing lower than an A grade, and 10 students were awarded straight A* grades in all nine subjects taken.

Headmaster Christopher Jeffery said: “We have become familiar with excellent GCSE results in recent years, and this year maintains that level of performance.

“To have well over three quarters of grades awarded at A or above speaks volumes for our young people and for their teachers, who work so brilliantly together to achieve results to be proud of.”

Two students, Alex Blayney from Hartford and Gareth Wilkes from Cuddington received news that they were among the top ten individual students nationally in the EdExcel board’s IGCSE Chemistry, which Grange pupils entered for the first time this year.

“We chose to offer IGCSE Chemistry for the first time, as it is a more stretching and challenging course than the new GCSE, and thus of greater value to our students”, said Mr Jeffery. “Such excellent results in a hard exam prove this to have been a very worthwhile decision”.

Jerry Jarvis, EdExcel’s Managing Director, said: “This is a tremendous achievement. We send our congratulations to Alex and Gareth”.

GCSE Results – August 2008

These results show the student name, number of examinations taken, (number of examinations passed of grade a* to c)

Richard Acklam 9 (9)

James Alexander 9 (9)

James Bate 9 (9)

Edward Beesley 9 (9)

Heidi Bennett 9 (9)

Emily Betts 9 (9)

Alexander Blayney 9 (9)

David Brook 9 (9)

James Broomfield 9 (9)

Andrew Brown 9 (9)

Callum Bryce 9 (9)

Richard Caplan 9 (9)

David Carruthers 9 (9)

Anna Cartwright 9 (9)

Olivia Catton 9 (9)

Alys Cawson 9 (9)

Oliver Cole 9 (9)

Helen Cresswell 9 (9)

Edmund Crowther 9 (9)

Alex Davies 9 (9)

Felicity Davies 9 (9)

Harriet Davies 9 (9)

Emily Dawson 9 (9)

Alice Dewhirst 9 (9)

Thomas Downes 9 (9)

David Eccles 9 (9)

Chloe Fenech 9 (9)

Gillian Fewins 8 (7)

Oliver Ford 9 (9)

Emma Forth 9 (9)

Matthew Funge 9 (9)

Camilla Gaskell 9 (9)

Katie Gyurkovits 9 (9)

Emily Hack 9 (9)

Isabel Harris 9 (9)

Eleanor Harry 9 (9)

Georgina Hayward 9 (9)

Rachael Heffernan 9 (9)

Kathryn Heine 9 (9)

Benjamin Higgins 9 (9)

Edward Hurst 9 (9)

Lucy Hutton 9 (9)

Oliver Hyatt 8 (8)

Alexander Isted 9 (9)

Santhosh Jagadeesh 9 (9)

Thomas Jeffery 9 (9)

Nadia Jeljeli 9 (9)

Nathan Jones 9 (9)

Alexandra Kelly 9 (9)

Alastair Kennedy 9 (9)

Benjamin Lavers 9 (9)

Jessica Lee 9 (9)

William Levy 9 (9)

Gregory Link 9 (9)

Omar Mahmoud 9 (9)

Kristian Mannering 9 (9)

Vivien Marafko 9 (9)

Alex Mitchell 9 (9)

Jonathan Murray 9 (9)

Nicholas Newman 9 (9)

Henry Oakes 9 (9)

Grace Oatway 9 (9)

Samuel Oliver 9 (9)

Eleanor Perchard 9 (9)

Florence Pickup 9 (9)

Oliver Potts 9 (9)

James Rasaiah 9 (9)

Benjamin Richards 9 (9)

Sophie Rigby 9 (9)

Alexander Roberts 9 (9)

Timothy Roberts 9 (9)

Callum Rowe 9 (9)

Henry Sanderson 9 (9)

Benjamin Scott 9 (9)

Matthew Shaw 9 (9)

Daniel Shaw 9 (9)

Theresa Simpson 9 (9)

Genevieve Smithson 9 (9)

Aaron Stanway 9 (9)

Edward Stubbs 9 (9)

Lucy Stubbs 9 (9)

Katherine Taunton 9 (9)

Lydia Teebay 9 (9)

George Tenquist 9 (9)

Natasha Thorley 9 (9)

John Walters 9 (9)

James Warrell 9 (9)

Declan Waters 9 (8)

Oliver Weston 9 (9)

Naomi White 9 (9)

Gareth Wilkes 9 (9)

Craig Williams 9 (9)

Sophie Winterbottom 9 (9)

George Wood 9 (9)

Thomas Woodward 9 (9)

Timothy Wrinch 9 (9)