Impressive GCSE results achieved by St Mary’s students

Students and Staff at St Mary’s have been celebrating highly impressive results in their GCSE, BTEC and other Level 2 qualifications.

Across the key headline performance measures St Mary’s has surpassed previous years’ outcomes, especially at Grades 7 and above, making this a wonderful set of results for the students, and allowing them to enrol on to their Sixth Form courses of choice.

Head Teacher Mr Richard Vaughan congratulated the students: “Following St Mary’s success at A Level last week, the school is incredibly proud of the results gained by our Year 11 cohort and the standards that they set themselves. They fully deserve such an excellent set of results; it is just reward for the commitment, dedication and resilience that they have shown.

We are delighted with what our students have achieved, and they are testament to the ethos of the whole St Mary’s community. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our wonderful staff, parents/carers and families for their constant support.”

Many of the cohort will be staying on at St Mary’s to pursue their A Level, BTEC and Level 3 qualifications, safe in the knowledge that St Mary’s is achieving excellent outcomes for its students.

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A Year of Incredible Results!

St Mary’s students have achieved an incredible set of A Level and Level 3 BTEC results.

We are immensely proud of the hard work, dedication and perseverance shown by our students and they have reaped the rewards that they deserve.

The whole St Mary’s community are delighted with the continued progress of our students, seeing a 9 % increase in A-B grades, a 10% increase in A-C grades and almost 50% of BTEC/Applied General results at Distinction* or Distinction. This is thanks in no small part to the commitment, expertise and dedication of our staff in their unrelenting support of our students.

This means our students are able to pursue their destination of choice, ranging from Russell Group Universities to prestigious School Leaver Programmes and Apprenticeships.

Destinations include (amongst many others) Queen Mary University of London, Brunel University, Queen’s Belfast, Loughborough, King’s College London, Sussex and Bath to study courses such as Computer Science with Industrial Experience, Biomedical Sciences, Philosophy and Modern Languages, Engineering, Geography and Economics.

We also have students undertaking apprenticeships with Thickbroom Chartered Accountants, with all of them having so many more life opportunities following their results.

Congratulations to this cohort. We send them on to the next stage of their futures with our very best wishes, thoughts and prayers.

 

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Yr10 Composition – Falling

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Summer Concert at St Mary’s School

On Friday, 12th July, St Mary’s hosted its highly anticipated Annual Summer Concert, an evening brimming with exceptional performances from our talented Phoenix Singers choir, soloists, and a professional band. This event is a cherished tradition that showcases the incredible musical talent within our school community, providing an invaluable opportunity for our performers to shine.

The concert featured a diverse array of musical pieces, highlighting the dedication and hard work of our students and the supportive guidance of their tutors. The atmosphere was electric as the Phoenix Singers choir opened the evening with the classic ‘Blame it on the Boogie’ , setting the tone for a night to remember.

A highlight of the evening was the spirited sing-a-long performance of “Wonderwall,” where members of our guitar club joined in, creating a wonderful ensemble. The audience enthusiastically participated.

We were also privileged to have a special guest in attendance—Ose, an ex-St Marian, and it took very little encouragement to persuade him to grace the stage for an impromptu performance of “Easy Like Sunday Morning.” His rendition was met with rapturous applause, a testament to the lasting impact of St Mary’s musical legacy.

The success of the concert would not have been possible without the dedication of our performers, the support of our professional band, and the enthusiastic participation of the audience. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to making this event a resounding success.

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Scholars Graduation

Our latest Scholars cohort, which consisted of 26 students from Year 7 and Year 9, graduated on 1st July at The Bayes Business School London. Our Year 7 students studied War and our Year 9 students studied Horror-Comedy . They received weekly tutorials from a PhD tutor and had to submit a final assignment which was graded at university levels. All students excelled in their final assignment and consistently worked hard with several students receiving a 1st. During the graduation visit students had a tour of the university, worked with students from other schools to market a new brand where they worked together as a team to gather new ideas and gave a presentation at the end. They got to hear from other students studying at the university and some who have just graduated. We also got to hear from the universities associate dean Dr Ioannis Moutzouris.

We are immensely proud of all students that took part. Well done Scholars!

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Young Enterprise Teams Presents their Charity Funds to Christoforos Charity Foundation

2023/24 has been a busy year for the two Young Enterprise teams where they have won 5 awards, participated in multiple trading events, primary school summer fairs and delivered outstanding presentations at the final event at the University of Hertfordshire.

As part of the programme in line with our Christian ethos both teams have one share allocated to a charity of their choice which receives profits the same as their own shares and this year both of our teams ensured that the Christoforos Charity Foundation was selected in honour of their friend and peer Christopher who they all miss very much.

In addition, the teams carried a donation bucket to every event to help where they explained all about the charity to the public so more money could be raised and some students were able to donate all of their share and profits to the charity.

In total they raised £435.32 which was presented to Christopher’s parents George and Areti in our remembrance garden where we also planted a beautiful yellow rose bush. We are very proud of all of our students in both the Young Enterprise teams and we would like to thank them for representing our community so professionally and respectfully.