Future looks bright for Our Ladys’ top-class pupils

MAKING the grade . . . Our Lady’s students (from left) Luke Barrett, Rachel Lamb, Jane Kinsella, Lauren Charnock and Andrew Charlesworth show off their outstanding results Picture: DARREN ROBINSON

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ROYTON’S Our Lady’s RC High School was celebrating its best ever results with pupils scoring some impressive grades.

The overall pass rate went up from 96 to 98 per cent and the number of As and Bs soared from 35 per cent to 54 per cent.

But it was the QCA point score, the average point score for each pupil and key to the league tables, going up from 676 to 717.3 that most pleased head teacher Roger Whitaker.

“We are nearing perfection. We are really pleased, not just that we have made the improvement in the national targets but we have outstripped them,” he said.

Top of the class was Rachel Lamb (18), from Shaw, who scored a remarkable five As in maths, further maths, biology, chemistry and geography and will now be heading to Edinburgh to study geology.

She said: “It’s a bit of a relief but I’m really happy I managed to do it.”

Head girl Helen Malloy had to rely on her mum phoning through her results — as she’s currently on holiday in Thailand.

Her trip will be even more memorable now after she scooped four As at A-Level and a B at AS-Level and will now be going to Oxford to read biological sciences.

Andrew Charlesworth (18), from Chadderton, got As in English language, maths and physics and a B in French and will be studying mechanical engineering at Durham University. He also got an A at AS-Level.

He said: “I’m very pleased. I was pretty nervous as I didn’t think I would do so well.”

Lauren Charnock (18), from Delph, will be studying maths at York after scoring As in maths, further maths and art and a B at AS-level.

“I needed two As and a B, but for myself I was aiming for three As,” she said. “I would have been disappointed if I had got lower.”

Jane Kinsella (18), from Royton, took another step up the ladder to becoming a doctor. She will be reading medicine at Birmingham after getting the As in maths and biology and the B in chemistry that she needed. She also got two Bs at AS-Level.

She said: “I would just be heartbroken if I had not got the results I needed.”

Luke Barrett (18), from Royton, scored As in maths, history and chemistry and will be studying civil engineering at Nottingham. He also got an A at AS-Level.

He said: “I was a bit annoyed with history as I only just scraped through.”