An A* day!
A level results day at Monkton Senior School brought news of excellent performance in a new qualification as well as in old ones. Three pupils were the first Monkton pupils, and the first pupils in a Bath school, to take Pre-U exams. One scored a D1 grade – the highest available, and better than an A* at A level, and two pupil achieved D2 grades – equivalent to an A*.
A level results were similarly pleasing with 21.8 % being at A*, or better, and nearly four out of five grades were A*-B.
The four candidates with offers for Oxford met their offers and will head to that university, and other pupils will disperse to many of the UK’s best universities including Warwick, Bristol, Manchester, Exeter, and Cardiff, as well as to Imperial College, London. Four pupils go to Central St Martins, the UK’s leading College of Art. Four pupils gained 3A* grades (Paul Karamura, Zachary Leach, Leah Rustomjee, and Nadine White – the latter two from Bath) and one – Adelyne Yeung – scored 4A* grades.
Monkton’s recently appointed Deputy Head Academic, Joe Sidders, commented: “We are extremely pleased with the performance of this cohort of pupils, whose hard work, allied to the skill of our teaching staff, has been well rewarded”.
As a matter of policy, Monkton Combe School does not release exam results for media league tables. The school chose in 2008 that it would no longer publish its results in newspaper league tables in the summer of that year.The reason the school withdrew was an issue of principle – a focus on league table performance stops members of staff from focussing exclusively in their decision-making on the welfare of individual pupils. Schools exist for the benefit of pupils, and not pupils for schools.