Press Release from Bacup And Rawtenstall
Grammar School
A level Results - 2004
 Students
at BRGS continued to achieve the high level of success at A level
which has become synonymous with the
school.
The number of students climbed to a new high of
225. They passed 818 A level exams out of 865 at grades A
to E and, in addition, passed 182 exams at AS level. Pass
rates over 95% have now been reached for the last 5 years.
414
results were at grades A and B, a rate of 47.9% which is
the third highest in the school’s history.
The average
UCAS points per student was 351 points which was a new record.
42 students achieved the excellent standard of three
or more passes at grade A.
Outstanding results came from the following; the numbers
show how many grade A passes the students achieved, a half
being at AS level:
5½
Sam
Foster
Rachel
Sagar
5
Paul
Bulman
Lara
Cadney
Ben
Eacott
Mary
Flook
Catherine
Miller
Nicola
Pilkington
4½
Martin Longstaff
Sarah
Terry
4
Sabrina
Alam
Rebecca
Bailey
Ryan
Bradshaw
Rachael
Lever
Laura
Shepherd
Adam
Turner
3½
George
Disney
Laura
Eastwood
Nicholas
Hallsworth
Ailsa
Mainwaring
Vicky
Ormston
Rachael
Parkinson
Luke
Roberts
Ruth
Syers
Julian
Worthington
3
Sam
Bemment
Francis
Chadwick
Rebecca
Chamley
Carey
Delaney
Gemma
Emmerson
Hannah
Flint
Lauren
Gosnell
Alex
Hocking
Alex
Hubbard
Namsi
Khan
Kayleigh
Mills
David
Pickles
Luke
Postlethwaite
Gemma
Rosthorn
Naomi
Shearon
Rowan
Uren
Nancy
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The results mean that at least seven students will
enter Oxbridge next year. They are:
Gareth
Barry to read Natural Sciences at Emmanuel
College, Cambridge
Paul
Bulman to read Computer Science at Christ’s
College, Cambridge
George
Disney to read Geography at Queen’s College,
Cambridge
Mary
Flook to read Veterinary Medicine at Clare College,
Cambridge
Sam
Foster to read Natural Sciences at Queen’s College,
Cambridge
Rachael
Lever to read English at Christ Church, Oxford
Rachel
Sagar to read Medicine at Downing College, Cambridge
The
headmaster, Mr Martyn Morris, said:
"Yet again
this year the doom-mongers have been saying that A levels
are getting easier and they are disparaging the efforts of
our young people. They should come to Rossendale and see
how incredibly hard the students in the valley work. It is
not the case as it was years ago that students could do very
little for a year and a half and then spend the last few
months before the final exams simply learning notes. Nowadays
they have constant pressures from coursework and modular
exams throughout the two years and the competition to achieve
places at premier league universities has never been higher.
It is also futile to compare A level results now with those
of 20 years ago. It is like comparing chalk and cheese. Years
ago the main skill involved in A level was writing essays.
Now the subject specifications are much wider in terms of
content and a huge range of skills to do with analysis and
synthesis have to be learned.
We are very proud of the standards our young people have
achieved this year. It has been very much a team effort by
many schools as nearly half of our students came from other
secondary schools in the surrounding area who gave them an
excellent foundation at GCSE level on which to build their
A level studies. The dedication of our teachers and pastoral
staff cannot be praised enough; they do make a big difference
to young lives."
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