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A-level results - who in Thanet has made the grade?

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Students across Thanet are celebrating their A-level results.

Thanet Extra's reporters have been out and about finding out who has made the grade.

Watch the video above or read on to find out how the students got on.


Clarendon House

Students and staff at Clarendon House Grammar School in Ramsgate are celebrating another impressive performance in the A-level examinations.

Improving on last year’s highly rated showing, the class of 2008 saw 98.3 per cent of all candidates passing all their subjects – and in 23 of 27 subjects, the overall pass rate was an unbeatable 100 per cent.

Kevin Fenner, head of the sixth form and assistant head teacher at the specialist languages school, is delighted. He said: "Once again our students have demonstrated what can be achieved with determination, enthusiasm and good teaching and learning.

"‘This year’s results are very pleasing. The vast majority of our students will be going off to their choice of good universities to study a wide variety of interesting courses."

Three students gained four A grade passes. They are: - Serena Brady: Psychology, Media Studies, English Literature, General Studies; Claire Hazelton: Art, Music, Classical Civilisation, General Studies; Ella Hunt: Government & Politics, Geography, Biology, General Studies.

Five students achieved three A grade A levels. They are: - Stacy Bonner: Psychology, English Literature, Biology; Abigail Brookman: English Language & Literature, Mathematics, Biology; Amy Hirst: History, English Literature, General Studies; Katie Hogben: English Literature, Design Technology, General Studies; and Dean Wood: Theatre Studies, Music, English Language & Literature.

Chatham House

At Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate, head teacher John Mathews was "delighted" with the A-level pass rate of 98 per cent with 67 per cent of the grades at A-C. He said: "Results for Science and Maths are especially strong, as reflects our specialist school status."

Of 17 Biology candidates, nine gained A grades, in Chemistry nine of the 12 candidates gained A or B grades; in Physics, six of the 12 candidates achieved A passes and allpassed; in Mathematics, half the candidates gained an A, while all Further Mathematicians achieved the top grade.

Results were exceptional too in Economics, English Language and Literature, R.S. and Music and 100 per cent pass results were achieved in Art, Design Technology, French, Film Studies, Geography, Government and Politics, German, History, Media Studies, Theatre Studies, Psychology and Sociology. In the vocational A-level, Leisure and Tourism, Tom Dow achieved a mark in the top five in the country.

Mr Mathews said: "To win a place on the school honours board students have to gain three Grade A passes at A-level and this year the following names will soon be added: Head boy Omar Abdel-Hadi, Dominic Campbell (who wins a place at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge), Adrian Cawley, Jon Choy, Dougie Hall, (who will read Bio-Chemistry at Pembroke College, Oxford), Andrew Kitchener, Michael O’Sullivan, James Osborn, Daniel Richford, Ben Sandum, Jack Sangster, Cassie Spain, Josh Subramanium, James Welch and Nicholas Wright.

St George's Church of England School

Students were praised for their excellent attitude to learning, and teachers for their dedicated professionalism, by principal Keith Rumblo as St George’s Church of England School at Broadstairs celebrates its best ever A-level results.

Mr Rumblo said: "Focussed learning and teaching is the key and we are proud of an excellent team effort. We are so pleased for all our students who have done so well and can face the next stage of their education and training with confidence and a sound performance record."

The average points score per student rose dramatically from 470 in 2007 to 550 in 2008, with the school’s showing way above local education authority targets, which Mr Rumblo described as "exceedingly pleasing."

Overall performance indicators show that 67 per cent of candidates gained three or more passes at A-level, with 95 per cent gaining two or more passes.

St George’s is a business and enterprise specialist school, and the business vocational A-level results showed that more than 60 per cent of candidates gained a C pass or higher.

Other high performing subjects are Sports and Exercise BTec where all 16 candidates gained distinctions; health and social care and financial studies applied A-levels where the results are "excellent" said Mr Rumblo.

In Geography more than 60 per cent of students gained C grade or above, and in Drama 57 per cent gained C pass or above.

Mr Rumblo added: "Strong standards are maintained right across the board which is good news because we offer such a diverse rangeof subjects for our sixth form ,students."

Hartsdown Technology College, Margate

The highest number of university entrants are being celebrated at Hartsdown Technology College in Margate following this year’s A level results.

Ninety per cent of the upper six form are moving on to university from September and Principal Andy Somers said: "This is fantastic news for the college and the community. We are all about raising aspirations and enabling students to move further into higher education wherever possible. This year we have more young men and women than ever doing just that which is enormously pleasing for myself and the staff.

"We are making university a viable attainment for students who are often the first in their families to consider it as an opportunity they can have. We are working hard to get more of them to aim higher."

Top performers included Caroline Crouch with three A passes, Jamie Smith with two As and a C pass, Yssy Bradshaw with two Bs, a C and a D, and Ben Akhurst with two Cs and two Ds.

Dane Court, Broadstairs

Another superb set of results for Dane Court with a 97 per cent pass rate in A level subjects, a shade more than half of them at A or B grades. Seventeen subjects had 100 per cent pass rates. English Literature had 82 per cent passing with A or B grades and RE had 79 % pass with A grade.

A large number of individual performances included 25 students gaining three or more A grades. Seven students achieved four As - Rebecca Axcell, Ruben Geevarghese, James Harrison, Sarah Miller, Charles Pacey, Sam Rixon and Bertie Williams. Hannah Prentice gained five A grade passes.

The majority of students will be taking up their places at their first choice university next month.

There was also considerable success for the school at AS level with pass rate of 94.4 per cent, 43 per cent passing at A or B grade.

Twenty two students gained three or more A grades while 10 gained four A grades, Nihad Ahmede, Emily Baldwin, Vincent Cook, Tess Dowsdeswell, Catriona Hodge, Chiara Lousley, Joy Millican, Amy Schaffer, Claire Smith and Moya Stirrup. Six more students gained five A grade passes, ZAk Bean, DFaniel Belsey, Philip Kemp, George Ruddle, Ashley Thorp[e and Michael Waeronski. Moya was one of the top 10 students out of 5,519 in the country who took RE with Edexcel exam board.

Head Paul Luxmoore said: "These excellent results are down to the very hard work of both staff and students. They deserve their success and I am very proud of them."

Head of sixth form Annie Hale, said: "Of course all our students have done very well, not just those who gained the highest grades"

Ursuline College, Westgate

Another good year for A levels at the college, said head of sixth form Andy Gillin with a 91% pass rate, consistent with pass rates of more than 90 per cent during the past five years. Twenty six per cent of students gained A and B grades. One student Catriona O’Grady now has a place to study geography at Christchurch College, Oxford, after getting her results.

The college saw 100 pass rates in numerous subjects including art, classics, film studies, maths, geography, German, psychology and textiles.

AS level results were significantly up by more than 10 per cent this time, with a pass rate of 76 per cent, said Mr Gillin.

Thanet College

Thanet College students achieved successful A-level results with a 100 per cent pass rate in all but 3 subjects. Students achieved 100 per cent passes in Biology, Chemistry, English, Film, Further Maths, History, ICT, Media, Photography, Physics, Psychology, and Sociology.

Of the total A-level entry 60 per cent achieved C to A grades, with 32 per cent of the over-all entry achieving B to A. In Sociology A-level over 50 per cent achieved A or B grades, and in Media Studies 50 per cent achieved Bs.

Emotions were running high when nervous students arrived to collect their results.

Daniel Harvey, who studied Media and English, got straight A’s. He bought his mum with him who said: “I’m just so proud, he didn’t even think he’d passed.” Dan praised his English tutor, Andrew Sutton-Jones, for his support throughout the course.

Emeline Muhawenimana, who has a place at Oxford University, was thrilled with her results; a B in Biology, C in Chemistry and C in Psychology.

International student Zhen Yang achieved straight A’s in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Statistics, with Kin Chau achieving A’s in Maths, Statistics and Further Maths.

Thabang Lesane completed her Sociology A-level in one year with an A grade to add to the B she gained in Media Studies. St George’s School student, Jemma Goldsmith, who studied A-level Media at Thanet College as part of the Thanet Consortium provision, gained a well deserved B. Charlotte Kay, achieved a C grade in Media over one year with an A grade in AS Photography.

Mature student Christine Philps gained A’s in English and Biology, and a C in Chemistry, despite having had a baby at Easter, which meant that she was not able to attend all the classes, and Emily Taylor should be really proud of her Bs in English, Sociology and Biology.

Kaleigh Bagnall, studying a National Diploma in Business was successful in AS Law. The College aims to encourage students to mix and match their qualifications. Mature student, Lee Jones who studied AS Psychology intensively over one year, in a class with full-time students, should be really pleased with her result. Daniel Harvey, who started his college career as a GCSE student, achieved good grades in A-level History and English and an A at AS Media, and this despite a difficult year for him personally.

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