Academic Performance

Ofsted Report 1999

GSCE Results 2000

Another outstanding year for Heathside students, maintaining the school's established trend of excellent GCSE results in recent years. This year from a year group of 162 students:

  • 78.5 % of year 11 students gained grades A-C in five or more subjects
  • 23% of all grades attained were A* or A
  • The average points score per student was 52 points representing an average grade of at a least a C pass for every individual subject entry
  • 53 students achieved at least 10 A* - C passes - 33% of the year group

The following students achieved at least 10 passes all at A*, A or B grades:

A-Level Results 2000

We are again delighted with the success of our Advanced Level students this year. Not only was the pass rate 95% for all Advanced subject entries but the A and B grades totalled an outstanding 38% of all grades attained (excluding General Studies). 100 % of sixth formers gained 2 or more Advanced level passes with the average number per student exceeding three

The average points score per student was 19.1 representing a half a point increase over 1999 figures in this the third year of sixth form results at Heathside.

Some students deserve a special mention because of their notable achievements in gaining at least 24 Advanced level points. They include:
Grade
Sarah Bennett
Emma Bosher
Alex Brammer
Anna Brice
Ben Clarke
Hilary Cole
Henry Cresser
Thomas Gregory
Tami Halliday
Claire Hamilton
Bianca James-Chouls
Hannah Jones
Cheryl Leung
Kerry Maxwell
Rhiannon Morgan
Gurminder Muker
Carly Perry
Neil Postance
Catherine Rickwood
Amy Robjohn
Christopher Royce
Laura Taylor
Nicola Willoughby		 A*
8
2
1
1
1
2
-
-
-
3
2
1
2
4
2
4
2
1
5
1
2
1
1		 A
2
8
2
6
6
5
8
1
4
5
8
8
6
6
8
6
4
3
5
5
5
4
5		 B
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-
7
3
3
4
2
9
6
2
1
2
2
-
1
1
4
6
1
4
3
5
4		 Matthew Brookes 1 A, 1 B and 1 C grade
Simon Dawkins 1 A, 1 B and 1 C grade
Kylie Daniels 1 A and 2 B grades
James Eggleton 4 A grades
Lakmini Fernando 1 A, 1 B and 1 C grade
Lindsay Gough 3 B and 1 C grades
Sarah Hamilton 2 A and 2 B grades
Steven Kealey 4 A grades
Lizzie Moore 3 B grades
Cheryl Randall 3 A and 1 B grades
Mervyn Wan 1 A, 1 B and 1 C grade
Lisa Watt 2 B and 1 C grades
Matthew Whitehead 1 A and 2 B grades

Principal Glyn Willoughby said "The great majority of students gained the necessary grades to gain their Higher Education places and are to be congratulated on their hard work and commitment throughout the last two years. It was particularly pleasing this year to see Cheryl Randall gain her place at Oxford and to see so many other students confirming their places at universities such as Imperial College and University College London, Bath, Southampton and Warwick"
There were many more similar results of an excellent standard. Glyn Willoughby, the Principal, was delighted with these results - "These are a quite outstanding set of results - congratulations to students on once again achieving superb results."