Oldham Hulme Principal salutes 'brilliant' GCSE grades

Oldham Hulme Grammar School students and staff are celebrating another year of fantastic GCSE results.

Principal of Oldham Hulme Grammar School, Tony Oulton, said: “We are massively proud of our Year 11s who have achieved brilliant grades in their GCSE exams this year."

The headline figures are impressive: nearly half of the grades were grades 9-7 and 71% were grades 6-9.

11% of the year group of 90 received all grades 7 and above and just over a third of the group achieved grades 6 and above in all their GCSEs.

As always, today Hulme is celebrating the individual successes that sit behind those headline figures, and staff are delighted that students’ hard work and determination to succeed has paid off.

At Hulme, they pride themselves on offering a broad and balanced curriculum and this is reflected in the the range of departments who have supported students to get stellar results.

In this GCSE exam cycle, in Chemistry, 78% of grades were 9-7, closely followed by Biology (69% 7-9 grades), French (67% 7-9 grades), Religious Studies (68% 7-9 grades) and Physics (65% 7-9 grades).

Mr Oulton added: "Hulme is a school where brilliant teachers and an outstanding pastoral support team ensure that, whatever their passions and strengths, students are given the tools to be their most successful selves.

"I want to take this opportunity to thank the teachers, the pastoral team, the exams team and all those staff who have supported students behind the scenes.

"Today’s results are something we can all be proud of."

Ameera, who achieved an incredible nine 9s in her GCSEs, is staying at Hulme to continue her studies in Biology, Chemistry, History and RS.

She said: “I didn’t expect to get full 9s but I feel like all my hard work has paid off!

"I’m looking forward to seeing all my friends and I feel ready to start sixth form.”

Kai McBorza, who’s also staying at Hulme to study Biology, Chemistry, Maths and PE at A Level, was really happy about his results too, stating: “I was surprised by a couple of my results, but in a good way, I got a couple of 8s where I thought I would get a 7.

"It’s been nice seeing my friends and getting our results together, we’re a bit competitive and its nice to have come out on top this time.”

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