GCSE results day and it's good news again

Originally posted @ 12:16 pm, Thu 21st Aug 2008

Went down this morning to the school that I chair and was surprised to see how relaxed kids were as they got results - so different from the drama often portrayed on breakfast TV programmes.

Children at the school (serving one of the most challenging cohorts in the region) have again achieved best ever results, up 4 percentage points on 5 good GCSEs. Nationally, the improvement has been 2.4%.

There was a particular focus on achieving maths and English and this score has gone up 14 percentage points, a big step forward for the school.

A new year 11 base for the most challenged pupils appears to have been particularly useful innovation.

Andrew Adonis, schools minister, has published an assessment.