GCSE results day: Hathershaw Principal delighted as students achieve 'against the odds'

Happy days at Hathershaw College

Hathershaw College Principal Mark Giles has praised his GCSE students today as they have achieved some terrific results against a recent backdrop of undoubted major challenges.

Mr Giles was speaking following this year’s GCSE and vocational qualification results which followed the school's first external examinations since 2019 as a result of Covid.

Mr Giles said: “If there is a year group who deserve an award for their resilience and tenacity, then it has to be the class of 2022.

"These are students who have endured two national lockdowns with school closures, numerous periods of self-isolation and the uncertainty of how they were going to be assessed this year.

"Despite this, they have risen to the challenge and achieved against the odds.

"I am also incredibly proud of how teachers have risen to the challenges of the last few years, developing their skills in remote education and helping students catch up with their learning as a result of Covid disruption by providing revision sessions for students after school and during the holidays.

"They have also been incredibly well supported by our non-teaching colleagues.

"This year’s results are excellent, almost as good as our best ever results in 2018.

"These qualifications will open so many doors for our students, most of whom will now attend OSFC, our Trust partner.”

Hathershaw's excellent results help to confirm the judgement from Ofsted at the end of the last calendar year that it continues to be a 'good' school, and shows that they are still on track in their journey to 'outstanding'.

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