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Three good reasons to celebrate Colston’s GCSE performance

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Staff and pupils at Colston’s School had three good reasons to celebrate their GCSE results.

• A record 94.6 per cent of papers were passed with A*-C grades – exceeding 2005’s 93.3 per cent

• A record 46.3 per cent of papers were passed with A* and A grades – exceeding 2005’s 43.3 per cent

• The 72 candidates averaged a record 8.7 passes – beating 2005’s average of 8.5 passes

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The percentage of candidates gaining five or more A*-C grades was 93.1 per cent – marginally down from the 2005 record of 94.6 per cent.

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The top three individual performances were by Thomas Cloake and David Thomas who both gained 11 A*s and one short course A*, and Gagan Singh who gained eight A*s, four As and one short course A*.

Colston’s again performed outstandingly at Mathematics with 71 passes including 14 A*s and 22 As.

Close behind were English Language (69 passes) and English Literature (54 passes).

Pupils gained 51 passes in Drama including 20 A*s and 23 As.

Pupils studying sciences gained 168 passes – 24 each in Chemistry, Biology and Physics and 96 in Dual Science.

Colston’s Headmaster Peter Fraser said: “I joined the school a year ago when we were announcing record GCSE results, and to improve further is a tribute to all pupils concerned.

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“There is a very strong element of team-work in this, and I cannot praise too highly the outstanding support which candidates receive from their teachers and families.”

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Results Statistics for Summer 2006
 
GCSE Results by Department for Summer 2006
 
GCSE results 2006 – A*-C only

Adalja, Sonal: BI CH DR EL ELIT FR HI MA PH SP RE(S)
Afshin, Lavinia: DR EL ELIT FR GG DE IN MA SC(2)RE(S)
Ahmed, Faisal: DR EL MA
Ali, Omar: BI CH DT DR EL ELIT HI MA PH SP RE(S)
Aplin, Matthew: DR EL ELIT FR MA SC(2) SP SR RE(S)
Arnot, Frederick: DR EL ELIT DE HI MA MU SC(2) RE(S)
Bannerman, Stuart: BI CH DT EL ELIT GG HI MA PH SP RE(S)
Bennett, Janneka: AD MA SC(2) RE(S)
Blackwell, Louis: BI CH DT EL HI MA PH SR ST RE(S)
Brett, Hannah: AD DR EL ELIT DE MA RE SC(2)
Bridgen, Kyp: DR EL ELIT MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Brown, William: DR EL ELIT FR HI MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Carpenter, Thomas: BI CH EL ELIT GG DE HI MA PH RE ST
Chapman, Joshua: DR EL ELIT FR HI MA MU SC(2) SR RE(S)
Chennells, Liam: DR EL ELIT GG DE MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Cloake, Thomas: AD BI CH EL ELIT FR GG HI MA PH ST RE(S)
Coates, Naomi: DR EL ELIT MA RE SC(2) SP SR
Cook, Oliver: AD DR EL ELIT FR HI MA SC(2) ST RE(S)
Dare-M’Connell, Alexander: DR EL ELIT FR HI MA RE SC(2)
Davies, Peter: AD BI CH EL ELIT FR MA MU PH SR ST RE(S)
Davis, Monique: AD EL ELIT HI MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Dickie, Thomas: BI CH EL ELIT HI MA PH SP SR RE(S)
Ding, Wai: CZ DR GG HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
England, Thomas: BI CH DR EL ELIT HI MA PH SP SR ST RE(S)
Falconer Hall, Thomas: BI CH DR EL ELIT FR DE HI MA PH ST RE(2)
Fisher, Thomas: AD DR ELIT HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
Fitzhenry, Jamie: AD DR EL ELIT FR HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
Fletcher, Jacob: DR EL MA SC(2) SR RE(2)
Fletcher, Kayleigh: BI CH DR EL ELIT MA PH RE SP SR
Hanney, Sarah: AD BI CH DT DR EL ELIT MA PH SP ST RE(S)
Hemmati, James: DR EL ELIT GG HI MA SC(2) SP RE(S)
Henry, Samuel: AD DR RE(S)
Hewitt, Samuel: DT DR EL MA SC(2) RE(S)
Hodge, Ashley: DR EL ELIT GG DE HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
Hooper, Oliver: DT DR EL FR MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Ismail, Zoheb: AD DR EL ELIT FR MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
James, Scott: EL MA SC(2) SP RE (S)
King, David: AD DR EL ELIT FR GG MA SC(2) RE(S)
Lam, Steven: AD CZ MA MU SC(2) RE(S)
Le Roy, Dominic: DR EL ELIT HI MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Lowndes, Amy: AD DR EL HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
Maggs, Ashley: AD DT EL ELIT GG DE MA SC(2) RE(S)
Malik, Adnan: DR EL HI MA RE SC(2) SP
Martin, Luke: AD EL ELIT GG DE MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Masters, James: BI CH DR EL ELIT FR HI MA PH SR ST RE(S)
Milton, Nicholas: AD BI CH DR EL ELIT FR MA PH SR ST RE(S)
Mole, Henry: DT EL FR GG MA SC(2) RE(S)
Ngai, Tim: AD CZ DR ELAS MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Parkhouse, Sarah: AD BI CH DR EL ELIT FR MA PH RE ST
Peacock, Thomas: BI CH DR EL ELIT HI MA PH SP SR ST RE(S)
Perren, Thomas: AD EL ELIT FR HI MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Poole, Megan: AD DR EL ELIT FR MA SC(2) SR RE(S)
Pratt, Christopher: BI CH DT EL ELIT GG DE HI MA PH ST RE(S)
Pritchard, William: BI CH DR EL ELIT HI MA PH RE SP
Reed, Emma: DR EL ELIT GG SC(2) SP SR RE(S)
Robinson, Nathan: EL ELIT GG HI MA SC(2) SP SR RE(S)
Robinson, Victoria: AD EL ELIT GG MA SC(2) SP SR RE(S)
Russell, David: BI CH DT DR EL ELIT HI MA PH SP RE(S)
Saunders, Ben: DR MA SP RE(S)
Singh, Gagan: BI CH DR EL ELIT GG DE HI MA PH PU ST RE(S)
Sond, Ravjit: DT EL MA SR RE(S)
Sparkes, Jonathan: BI CH DR EL ELIT HI MA PH SP SR ST RE(S)
Spokes, Joshua: DR EL ELIT FR GG HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
Stagg, Edward: DR EL FR MA MU SC(2) SR RE(S)
Sweet, Charlie: DR EL ELIT FR GG HI MA SC(2) RE(S)
Thomas, Amber: AD BI CH DR EL ELIT FR MA PH SP RE(S)
Thomas, David: BI CH EL ELIT FR GG HI MA PH SP ST RE(S)
Thomas, Katie: AD DT DR EL ELIT MA SC(2) SP RE(S)
Tolman, Katy: AD BI CH EL ELIT FR HI MA PH SR RE(S)
Vincent, Sarah: AD EL ELIT GG MA SC(2) SP SR RE(S)
Weston, Chloe: AD DR EL FR GG MA SC(2) RE(S)
Woollaston, Peter: DR EL ELIT HI MA MU SC(2) SP ST RE(S)

Key:
AD – Art & Design; BI – Biology; CH – Chemistry; CZ – Chinese; DT – D&T Resistant Materials; DR – Drama; EL – English Language; ELAS – IGCSE EnglishASL; ELIT – English Literature; FR – French; GG – Geography; DE – German; HI – History; IN – Italian; MA – Mathematics; MU – Music; PH – Physics; PU – Punjabi; RE – Religious Studies; SC2 – Double Science; SP – Spanish; SR – Sport/PE Studies; ST – Statistics; RE(S) – Religious Studies Short Course