Fareham college principal 'delighted' with GCSE results after 'inequalities' in process

Principal of The Henry Cort Community College, Claudia Cubbage, was pleased with the grades after initially being unhappy with the ‘inequalities of the process’ of this year’s exams following the coronavirus pandemic.

Overall the Hillson Drive college saw 70 per cent achieve L4+ in both English and maths, with 56 per cent achieving 5+ in both.

Star performers included deputy head boy, Josh Efford, who was awarded straight grade 9s in all subjects.

Elouise Kerby-Dickinson and Isabelle Kimberley also achieved 9s in all core subjects.

Early entries Grace Park, Michael Thomas and William Campbell achieved grade 9s in all their GCSEs taken in Year 10.

Ms Cubbage, said ‘I am delighted with the results. Students and staff have worked hard to achieve an excellent set of outcomes and I wish all students success in the future.

‘They now have the grades that they truly deserve. We have made our feelings known throughout about the inequalities of the process which was supposed to be used to calculate grades by exam boards.

‘We are delighted that common sense has finally prevailed.’

The results come at the end of Ms Cubbage’s first cohort as principal having seen pupils through from Year 7 to Year 11 - with ‘great things expected’ after last year’s results.

‘The results that they have achieved are testament to the hard work and dedication of both students and staff and shows the sustained improvements that the college has made in recent years,’ the principal said.

‘We have some amazing outcomes, we implemented a rigorous and robust moderation process to generate our Centre Assessed Grades with 45 (one per cent) of these moved up by the exam boards.’

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