Previous years (after re-marks and appeals) are as follows:
2012 96%
2011 95%
2010 94%
2009 95%
2008 94%
2007 87%
2006 78%
2005 77%
I would not be surprised if the A*-B percentage turns out to be a college record although, of course, the human stories underpinning these results are much more important. And results day has been all about those human stories. We had a quad filled (mainly) with very happy and relieved boys, girls and parents. And where there were initial disappointments, we have been delighted that so many universities have been willing to lower their offers and admit our pupils all the same. I suspect that this year we have our smallest ever number of Upper Sixth formers still without a university place. You can probably sense my relief.
It is hard to single out individual success stories because everyone has had his or her own personal challenge and I am as delighted by the boy securing BBB for whom that is a personal triumph as I am by his friend securing 5 A* grades. Nevertheless, just as leading try scorers or lead parts in the school play get their moment in the limelight during the course of the year, so it would be churlish to deny the academic high-flyers of today their moment too. So, here are the names of those who secured AAA or better:
Harry Angell A*AAA Post A-Level Application
Roisin Benett-Odlum AAA LSE
Charlie Brotherston AAA Bristol
Sophie Buck A*A*AA Cambridge
Jack Butler AAAA Exeter
Laurence Calliafas A*A*AA Cambridge
Helena Cameron A*AA Edinburgh
Radi Darwish AAAA Brighton
Cameron Dashwood A*A*A*A* Cambridge
Jack Davies A*A*A*A Cambridge
Eleanor De A*A*A*A* Cambridge
Shiwen Ding A*A*AA Imperial
Charlotte Dodge A*AA Southampton
Ryan Elliott A*AA Bristol
Samuel Evans A*A*AA Warwick
Jed Fletcher AAA Exeter
Alexander Galitskiy A*A*AAA Durham
Seweryn Gasiorek-Shergold AAA Oxford
Douglas Glynne-Jones AAA Bath
Thomas Greenhalgh A*A*A*A Durham
Faraz Hamid AAA St George’s Medical School
Jonathan Haney A*AA Durham
Megan Harding A*AA Exeter
Lawrence Harlow A*AA Southampton
Megan Harvey AAA Oxford
Edward Holden A*AA Exeter
Hannah Hunter AAA Leeds
Callum Husselbee A*A*A* LSE
Tessa Hutchinson AAA LSE
Dmitri Ignatchenko AAA UCL
Caroline Jeffery A*A*AA UCL
Jacob Jones AAAB Bristol
Joshua Keisler A*AA Loughborough
Bethany Kelly AAA Bristol
Bethany Kenny AAA LSE
Rostyk Khoma A*AAB Nottingham
Jessica Lance AAA Warwick
Victor Law A*AAAB LSE
Anthony Li A*A*AAA Oxford
Jeffrey Li A*A*A*A*AB Oxford
Vincent Li A*A*A*A UCL
Weilun Liu A*A*AAB Durham
Cuztina Liu A*A*AA LSE
Edward Lloyd AAA Bristol
Catherine Lucas A*A*A UCL
Katherine Macfarlane A*A*A*B York
Shirley Mak A*A*A*A Cambridge
Eloise Maland A*AA Glasgow
Yana Mashenskaya A*AA LSE
Aoife McDonald-Bowyer A*A*AB Imperial
Ryan Meadows A*AA Bath
Thomas Mitchell A*A*A Bristol
Dominic Mo A*A*AAA Imperial
Omar Mohamed A*A*A*A Warwick
Juliette Murphy A*A*AA Cambridge
Min Woo Nam A*A*AB LSE
Oscar North-Concar AAAB Manchester
Dmytro Okolovych A*AA LSE
Harry Osborne AAA Sheffield
Erin Page A*A*A Warwick
Joycelin Pang A*AAA UCL
Anna Parfitt AAA KCL
Angus Plummer A*A*A*A* Cambridge
Nikita Pogorelenko A*AA UCL
Kiran Rajkumar AAAA UCL
William Ramsay AAAA Nottingham
Edward Rea A*AAA Bath
Ella Robertson AAA Imperial
Thomas Rollinson AAAA Oxford
Jack Rysdale AAA Exeter
Clare Saxby A*A*A* Oxford
Rosalind Scott A*AA Exeter
Emily Seccombe A*A*A*A Oxford
Ashkon Seyed-Safi A*A*A*A* Cambridge
Vivian Shih A*AAA UCL
Rebecca Shilling AAAA Nottingham
Hansy Shore A*AA UCL
Amy Still AAA Bristol
Anna Surridge AAA Newcastle
Milo Thompson AAA Exeter
Jamie Tiru A*AA KCL
Catherine Tong A*A*A*A* Oxford
Poppy Trivedi A*A*A*A UCL
Georgina Tyas A*A*A*A Cambridge
Angelica Van Clarke A*A*A Leeds
Sarah Wang A*A*A*A Imperial
Tracy Wong A*A*A* UCL
Thomas Woodward A*AA Bristol
Josephine Wu A*A*AA LSE
Julia Zhuang A*A*A*A Imperial
Lily Spencer AAAB Post A-Level Application
Adi Whitworth A*AAB Post A-Level Application
I am delighted for all of the above and for those not mentioned here who nevertheless surpassed their expectations and can be immensely proud of what they have achieved. They know who they are.
For me, what matters most is that our leavers have achieved top grades without ever losing their sense of fun or their commitment to life beyond the classroom. So many of those celebrating their results have also been top sportsmen and sportswomen, dancers, artists and musicians. That they have also found time to excel academically is both humbling and inspiring.
He will hate me for singling him out but I also want to mention how very proud I am of Tom Woodward. Diagnosed with cancer just before his exams, he underwent chemotherapy during them and yet still went on to get A*AA and a place at Bristol to read History. To him and to all our leavers, many congratulations!
Kind regards,
Richard Cairns
Head Master