Hulme flying high

TOP class . . . (from the left) Ellis Hough, Jessica Entwistle, Paras Jariwala, Daisy Towers

GCSE: HIGH-ACHIEVERS at Hulme Grammar Schools are celebrating a rise in the number of pupils achieving A* grades.

Two students — Jessica Entwistle and Daisy Towers — scored 10 A*s each. Jessica will study biology, chemistry, maths, further maths and English literature at the school’s sixth form, while Daisy will go to Greenhead College in Huddersfield to do A-levels in French, Spanish, English literature and history.

Principal, Dr Paul Neeson, said: “We are particularly pleased with the six-point improvement, to 18 per cent, in the A* grades achieved.”

The Chamber Road school’s A*-C pass rate held steady at 95 per cent, with more than 97 per cent achieving the national five A*-C benchmark. More than a quarter of Hulme’s Year 11 achieved at least eight A*-A grades, including 26 who gained nine or more A* and A grades and 13 who achieved 10 A* and A grades. In history, 65 per cent of all grades were A* or A, 73 per cent of all grades in religious studies were A* or A and 66 per cent of all grades in chemistry, physics and biology were A* or A.