The students at Cambian Potterspury Lodge School, Towcester have great cause for celebration today after achieving a stunning set of exam results. These are the best recorded GCSE and AS Level results in the school’s 64 year history. Despite the disruption to learning caused by COVID-19, Students achieved grades that far exceeded the national averages for special schools. This year, 25% of all passes in English and Maths were Grades 9-5 against the national average of just 1%*.
Jenny Nimmo, School Principal commented on these results: “I am exceptionally proud and humbled by our students and staff who have achieved these remarkable results. Each student has overcome their own individual challenges to gain these results, through their hard work and resilience they really have achieved ‘their personal best.”
Among the students celebrating are Jacob Crew who will now progress to study A levels in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science having achieved seven GCSE levels including four at Grade 6. Thomas Church gained seven GCSE Levels, including an outstanding Grade 7 in Music, he will now study this at Northampton College. Harvey Rogers achieved seven GCSES including three Grade 5s in Mathematics, History and Media and will be going on to study Photography at Milton Keynes College.
Also celebrating is Finnlay DeCoster-Ryan who gained straight Grade 5s across the board in GCSE English, Mathematics, and Citizenship and will be staying at the school’s sixth form. Samuel Baines, who is just 12 years old received a Grade 5 in GCSE Citizenship.
Last week Harry Lyman, a Year 13 student, became the first ever student in the school’s history to achieve an AS Qualification when he passed his AS Art.
Andrew Sutherland, Cambian’s MD of Education joined the students at the school to receive their results. He said: “These results represent the pinnacle of an exceptional year for the school which achieved a “Good” Ofsted rating in February for both education and residential care, as well as the prestigious Safeguarding Initiative Award and Teach Well School Gold Awards. We are hugely impressed by these outstanding achievements and wish the students continued success for the future. We’re deeply proud and grateful to everyone at the school that has helped our students achieve these landmark results.”
*Against 2019 DfE data these results places Cambian Potterspury Lodge School potentially as one of the highest performing special schools against this performance measure in the South East of England