Friday, 24 August 2007

GCSE and A level Results

Official totals (A-C grade percentages etc) will be released and posted here next week, but in the meantime . . .

GCSE results

Bedales School continues its record of academic achievement with another good showing in GCSE. Half of all its results this year were in the two highest grades (A* and A), with one in five overall being graded A*.

Two students, Veronica Stratford-Tuke and Sophie Hill, gained A* in all 11 of their exams. India Thorp was awarded nine A* (plus an A and a B), and David Wise, Leo Green and Chris Taylor all attained A* in eight subjects, with two or three As in addition.

Philip Young, Director of Studies, said, “We have seen some very impressive results this summer, and I congratulate the students on their achievement.

“The sciences remain strong at Bedales, but I am particularly pleased that standards in dual-award science continue to rise, with 14 A* grades.”


Bedales A-level results

Bedales students have celebrated another good year of A-level results. The year-group, numbering 91 in all, took 295 examinations between them in 23 subjects.

Four out of every ten results were A grades, and two thirds of the total scores were As or Bs.

It was a particularly strong year for Mathematics, with 16 out of 19 candidates gaining As. The sciences also showed strongly, with more than four out of ten candidates achieving A grades in Chemistry, Physics and Biology – a score that was matched in the humanities by English Literature and by languages, both classical (Latin and Greek) and modern (French, German and Spanish).

Saturday, 18 August 2007

Head of Design is in Ironman

Ben Shaw (Head of Design) is taking part in the Ironman UK triathlon at Sherborne Castle in Dorset on the 19th August.

This involves:

Swimming 3.8km in a lake
Cycling 112miles (180km)
Running 26.2miles (42km)

And all in Lycra! Apparently.

Please support this wonderful effort (Ben's 10th year!!!) by making a pledge to Ben's charities Here

Friday, 17 August 2007

Purple Hoodies?

In case you missed it Bedales was in the Sunday Times Style Magazine in July. Overall it was well, um, er . . . ?

Click here to read the online version