Results day with a difference - Hampshire schools plan for GCSE grade collection

GCSE results day is only a month away and secondary schools are having to adapt how pupils collect their results.
By Neil Fatkin
Published 18th Jul 2020, 16:45 GMT
The familiar scene of pupils collecting their GCSE results may look different this year with many schools planning to invite in selected bubble groups of pupils staggered across different times of the day.The familiar scene of pupils collecting their GCSE results may look different this year with many schools planning to invite in selected bubble groups of pupils staggered across different times of the day.
The familiar scene of pupils collecting their GCSE results may look different this year with many schools planning to invite in selected bubble groups of pupils staggered across different times of the day.

While many schools are still planning on inviting pupils in for the traditional collection of grades, the majority are having to create bubble collection groups with staggered arrival times.

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Support will be on hand for pupils who wish to discuss grades and their future plans. Each bubble will be expected to quickly disperse school sites to prevent the gathering of large groups of students.

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The majority of schools will invite pupils to attend allocated slots for specific teaching groups.

Two city schools adopting this policy include University Technical College Portsmouth and Priory School in Southsea.

Priory School headteacher, Stewart Vaughan, said: ‘To avoid congestion and to maintain social distancing we will be asking students to attend in tutor groups at different times.’

Horndean Technology College is planning on inviting three students in from each of their 10 tutor groups to create collection groups of 30 pupils.

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While plans are still being finalised, Crofton School in Stubbington is proposing to invite students to collect results based on groups.

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Portsmouth Grammar School have said there will not be ‘a requirement for pupils to attend to collect results’ but that the school ‘may be open in some capacity’.

A spokeswoman for the school said: ‘With current guidelines we are obviously keeping the number of people on site at a minimum and almost certainly won’t be able to invite parents on to site with their children to receive results.’

While Year 11 pupils were unable to sit GCSE exams they will receive calculated subject grades base on teacher predictions combined with past pupil performance and historical school attainment.

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