St George’s College students are celebrating this morning with their best ever results in their GCSE exams.  The College has maintained its 100% 5 A*-C with a record 34% A* grades. 28 students gained all A* - A grades, with five students achieving straight A*’s.  Notable achievements are Denis and Daria Aven (Virginia Water) both gained 11A*’s as well as AS German A grade, AS Russian A grade and an A* grade at Russian A2 (Denis also achieved an additional maths qualification A grade).  Victoria Eito (Weybridge) also achieved 11 GCSE’s, 10 A* and 1 A as well as an A grade at French AS.  Cameron Henderson-Begg (Weybridge) gained 10 A*s at GCSE, French AS grade A and additional maths qualification A grade with full marks (100%) for every exam taken.  Daryl Weatherly- Rowe (Weybridge) and Elliot Doyle (Walton-on-Thames) both got 10A*s at GCSE with Daryl also getting grade A in French AS and Elliot with A grade at additional Maths.  Clara Seipt (Woking) achieved 9A*’s and 1 A at GCSE but also gained an A at French AS and an A* in German A2. The A* - B percentage has increased from 91% to 93% from last year.  These results are all the more outstanding as 12 students took the full AS in French, and 11 gained an A grade in addition to all their GCSE’s.

All the Fourth Year students took Religious Studies GCSE a year early, with 85% gaining A*-A grades.  31 of the Fourth Year cohort also took French a year early with an excellent achievement of all 31 attaining A”-A grades.  

Two of the Third Year students took a GCSE.,  Leyla Paydas (Weybridge) gained an A* in Turkish GCSE and Lewis Nackasha (West Byfleet) gained an A in Arabic.

Two Second Year students gained A*’s in French GCSE.

An ecstatic Head Master Joe Peake was delighted at the record busting performance of his GCSE students “We expected this to be a good year but with 34% A*’s so many of our students have a wonderful basis for their A Level studies in the Sixth Form. This year’s Sixth Form cohort will be the first to benefit from our £7 million new purpose built Sixth Form building which opens in September”.

St George’s College 2010 GCSE results summary:

Number of candidates:                 146
% gaining 5+ A*-C grades:          100
% gaining A*/A grades:                 67                     
% gaining A*-B grades:                93