Beech Hall School celebrated its’ GCSE results with significant value-added achievements for so many of its relatively small cohort of Year 11 pupils.
Value-added data indicates the number of GCSE grades achieved above those that were predicted in baseline assessments at the start of Year 10. For Beech Hall’s seventeen Year 11 pupils, this success has equated to a value-added score of 80 GCSE grades higher than predicted.
The pupils were thrilled as they opened their envelopes on this morning, indicating a combination of hard work on their part, and individualised dedication on the part of Beech Hall teachers.
Seona Wynn-Griffiths, 16, last year’s Head Girl, was particularly excited to be celebrating her very own value-added achievements as she succeeded in raising her total GCSE tally by 18 grades across four subjects. Grace Morris, also 16, of Rainow, Macclesfield, was also delighted, raising her own count by six grades, three of which were in Religious Education as she achieved an A.
James Allen, headmaster, said: “I am absolutely delighted with the efforts of our pupils and their teachers. To have achieved so highly against their baseline data is a truly fantastic feat. We are so very proud of all that they have achieved.”
Beech Hall also involves its younger pupils in Year 9 in the FCSE (Foundation Certificate in Secondary Education), a useful precursor to the GCSE and a key indicator for future success. With a 100 per cent pass rate, this cohort of pupils celebrated FCSE passes in both French and German, with 75 per cent achieving a merit or distinction.
As so many of these pupils have chosen to pursue one of these languages at GCSE level, pupils and parents were delighted with the overall results. As a non-selective independent school, Beech Hall prides itself on the additional value that pupils are able to achieve in small classes with individualised attention from staff. This enables such a high proportion of its pupils to achieve so much more than is originally predicted for them.
Part of the Riverston Group, Beech Hall is committed to providing a child-centred education which focuses on every individual child’s strength and gives each one the opportunity to achieve a wide variety of academic, sporting and extra-curricular goals.
Bespoke, quality teaching is at the heart of Beech Hall’s core values and the recent renovation has made the personalised learning approach all the more achievable.
To find out more about Beech Hall School visit www.beechhallschool.org .
