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Thursday 23rd August
KEVICC students achieve record GCSE results
By Hannah Coates
Reporter
STUDENTS AND STAFF at King Edward VI Community College (KEVICC) are celebrating the best GCSE results in the school's history today.
Results graded A* to C, including mathematics and English, are up by 13 per cent, with 64 per cent of students gaining the top grades, in comparison to 51 per cent last year.
KEVICC also achieved its best mathematics and English results on record. Grades in mathematics, which is a priority for the school, are also up by 13 per cent.
KEVICC Principal Kate Mason hailed this year's GCSE results as incredibly impressive
Principal Mason attributed the advance in grades to "improving the quality of teaching and carefully tracking students". She also emphasised the significance of students and teachers "working very hard" to improve the college's academic standards.
Three KEVICC’s students, Georgia, Katie and Amy, were celebrating after receiving their results exclaiming: “We’ve got into college!”
Nearby Kingsbridge Community College achieved 70 per cent of results graded at A* to C, including English and Mathematics, remaining at exactly the same standard as last year. They have succeeded in coming thirteenth in the BBC News Secondary school league tables in Devon, only topped by predominantly independent and grammar schools. Students at South Dartmoor Community College (SDCC) have achieved good results, too, with 62 per cent of students gaining five or more A*-C grades including English and Mathematics. However, this is down on last year’s grades by 3 per cent and marks a significant turn around in grades between KEVICC and SDCC. SDCC also achieved record Science results, with over 90 per cent of students gaining two A* to C Science GCSEs.
Nationwide, the number of students in England that achieved grades A* to C were down by 1.5 per cent on last year, the first ever fall in GCSE grades since the exams were introduced 24 years ago.
Kate Mason, principal of KEVICC, acknowledged all the hard work of KEVICC students, thanked the parents for their support, and sent her congratulations to all the students at KEVICC who received their GCSE results today.
In recent months KEVICC has made local and national headlines after the decision to reintroduce of school uniform. The uniform is set to come into force as the new term begins next month, despite protests from groups such as KEVICC Deserves Better.
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Comments
disappointing results in the great scheme of things.
cf Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis (a comprehensive in a similar, historic town in the south west) -- 80.2% of students achieved 5 A*-C grades at GCSE in 2012.
It's time that Kevicc (and Totnes) got it's head out of the sand.
And all done without a uniform. Just goes to show that what was needed all the time was proper support for students, better teaching standards, having (for example) Maths teachers who stuck around for more than a couple of months, rather than endless supply teachers. Nothing to do with forcing our young people into a black and white uniform better suited to the 1950s. The results went up because the school had to raise its game and gave the students doing GCSEs a lot more support, end of. Just goes to show that there was absolutely no need for a uniform when the real challenge was how to raise the standards. It was the teachers that needed a kick up the backside, not the students. And yet still we go into September with this divisive standoff about uniform and around a third of families having still not brought the uniform. Talk about putting your foot in it.