Education, Sport & Culture announced earlier this week that all Year 11 students will have their offers of post-16 places at the Sixth Form Centre and the College of Further Education honoured based on teacher-predicted grades, regardless of results received today.
While students did not sit summer exams, a Centre Assessed Grade of all of the work they have done across their studies was made by their schools to help determine final grades.
Pictured: The Bailiwick’s grades have increased across the board. St Anne’s and Les Voies, which have smaller cohorts than the other schools, enjoyed marked improvement.
All Grammar School pupils secured at least five grades, with English and maths, at A*-C / 9-4 following a dip in results last year.
“We’re really delighted by today’s results,” said Headteacher Kieran James. “It’s been based on a lot of the work that they’ve done over the past two years and also a really rigorous moderation and standardisation process that we put in place in school, so we’re very confident that these grades are an accurate representation of the students’ results and therefore we’re delighted that they’re such high and outstanding results this year.”
Student Ellie Hicks was really pleased with her results. “I’ve been hoping that they used the predictions and work from that to get our results, because I was quite happy with the predictions I got. I’ll probably go to sixth form and carry on from there. I think I’m going to do business, sociology, and RS and philosophy.”
Rhianna Trump also plans to stay on at the sixth form centre to study biology, chemistry and psychology. “This year has been a whole new level of uncertainty. I’m just glad that they’ve made the decision to let us into sixth form regardless of what we get, that’s been the main stress so that’s taken a huge weight off our shoulders. My favourite subject was probably biology, because I’d like to be a doctor.”
Pictured: Grammar students Rhianna Trump, Catherine Gill, Samantha Preece, Jess Hurdley and Rachael Bertrand.
Les Beaucamps Acting Head Martin Haimes said students had coped well with the changes to their schooling during lockdown.
“They’ve been an incredible year group in all their five years with us, we were really pleased to get them back into school before the end of the year to have that closure and let them have their prom. Today is the icing on the cake – you can see their smiling faces, they’re getting their just desserts for the work they’ve put in and the effort they’ve made.”
Pupil Harry Robins will go to the Grammar School & Sixth Form Centre to study Photography, Music and Media.
“I’m really pleased with what I got, I’ve got the grades I needed. I’m very happy with my results and I don’t think I could have done any better, so I’m pleased.”
Jacob Smith said: “I’m hoping to study Photography, Film and Media. I think I could have done a little bit better in my sciences, and maybe my maths because I was working hard before the virus at that.”
Pictured: Les Beaucamps GCSE student Sophie Duquemin was happy with her results, which will enable her to study the International Baccalaureate at the Sixth Form Centre.
One of the awarding organisations for technical and vocational qualifications, Pearson, announced yesterday that it would be delaying issuing results for students who had studied on courses such as Level 1 and Level 2 BTEC as it wanted to regrade its assessments in line with changes made to other qualifications.
As a result, students in the Bailiwick who have undertaken BTECs have received provisional grades today. Finalised grades for these courses will be released in due course and the exam board has provided the assurance that final results may only go up, not down.
Louise Misselke, Principal of the College of Further Education and Executive Director at the Guernsey Institute, said: “This has been a very challenging year for all students in education, while many of the results are provisional at the moment it does not detract from the achievement of our students. Congratulations to all our students, we are really proud of their work and dedication. We are looking forward to supporting them in their next steps.”
Pictured: College of FE Principal Louise Misselke said she was proud of her students’ achievements. Sam Bewey and Jessica Bowring, pictured, both got a distinction in Level 2 Public Services. Sam would like to get into a career for the fire service and Jessica is interested in working for the prison service.
Following the announcements earlier in the week made by the UK Government, students’ GCSE grades will be the higher of their Centre Assessed Grade – the grade calculated by looking at their work – and the grade calculated for them by the exam regulator, Ofqual, after it has been put through their statistical model.
Pictured: Students celebrated getting their GCSE and level 2 results today.