Thursday 09 September 2010
Excellent GCSE results!

Top of the class for Westbourne

94% of our S11 cohort passed 5 or more GCSE's, it’s the highest % ever for WB.  70% passed 8 or more.

We are all very pleased, well done to our students!

Top of the class for Westbourne pupils

  

SHEFFIELD’S Westbourne School is marking the start of the autumn term with the celebration of a major academic achievement…a 100 per cent pass rate in GCSE maths. Whilst the school regularly achieves 100% in many optional GCSE subjects it is rare for a non selective school to achieve this in one of the three core subjects.

In a bumper year for academic results, 94 per cent of Westbourne Year 11 students – the highest number ever - passed five or more GCSEs grade A* to C, with an impressive 72 per cent achieving eight or more passes.

The 100 per cent pass rate in Maths was outstanding but perhaps overshadowing that was that 91 per cent passed 5 or more A* to C including both Maths and English Language.

For the 32 pupils in Year 11 there was extra cause for celebration as they passed 70 GCSEs at either grade A or A*.

The announcement of the Broomhill school’s most successful academic year to date coincides with the arrival of a new Deputy Head of Senior School.

David Duffy takes over from Rosemary Bornand, who recently completed 30 years service – she remains on the Westbourne staff as a part-time Modern Foreign Language teacher.

Westbourne is the only independent co-educational day school in Sheffield that caters for children from Reception right through to Y11.