The examination results are very good again. We are very proud of all our students and of their hardwork and talents. Congratulations also to all staff on their hard work, inspirational support for learning and attention to detail, and sheer determination in supporting our students to achieve so well. Congratulations to all our parents/carers on their care and guidance and support during the stress of examinations.

A2 (A Level)
We are delighted with the results the students have achieved. This is the first year through for all the exams being ‘linear’ with all the work from the whole two years being tested at once. This means that it relies on students working hard throughout the course and learning all the material they have covered for the final exams. We are pleased that half the grades gained are B, A or A*. A* grades are really hard to get and in Maths an amazing 11 students managed this and in English Literature 7 students did. We even had 4 students get A* grades in all three exams they sat! For example, John Brown and Ben Sheridan both got 3 A* in Maths, Further Maths and Physics and will be going on to study Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering respectively. We are proud that the great A Level grades are opening the doors to top universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and Bristol and also that students are securing good apprenticeships.

For the staff at the school seeing the happy faces on results day is an inspiration and a reward as we celebrate with our lovely students the positive results of two years of hard work that opens doors to exciting next steps.

There was a very high take up of university places. We have 8 students awarded places at Oxford and Cambridge; John Brown (Engineering at Cambridge), Eleanor Heaps (Philosophy at Cambridge), Sophie Greenwood (English Literature at Oxford), Hannah Millward (English Literature at Cambridge), Oliver Packer (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge), Emily Moore (Geography at Cambridge), Polly Walton (Geography at Oxford), and Lloyd Shail, who left in 2017, (Medicine at Oxford). Other notable successes were Libby Rush, Molly Rasbash, William Rodliffe, Cara Barltrop, Ben Kelly, Max Conroy, Megan Akrill, Kirsten Bailey, Nathalie Canvin, Kaya Pirie, Oliver Allison, and Jake Loader.

Stiven Bregu, our Albanian student who was threatened with deportation, achieved 3 A levels and has started his accountancy apprenticeship. He said “A big thank you to everyone who supported me, it has been a stressful few weeks but I‘m pleased with how everything went. I’m delighted to be remaining and being part of Bristol.”

GCSE
The new grading system has now been introduced for most other subjects. 9 is equivalent to a ‘super’ A*. 4 is equivalent to a C. 7 is equivalent to an A.

We are delighted with SMRT students’ achievements. 99.5% of students got at least one GCSE qualification. 85% of grades were grade C or 4 and above. This is an increase from last year (82%). The results at the top end have been really strong again, with 32% of grades being grades 7, 8 or 9 and A or A*. An excellent 41.3% of students got three or more grades at A or 7 and above. Despite the new grade 9 being like a super A* with a lot more challenge we had 8 students get 5 or more grade 9s. 14 students gained 9 or more grade A/7+ qualifications.

Notable successes were Amy Stapleton, Emily Reilly, Alisha Cole, Akhhil Tom, Anna O’Connor, Eve Taylor, Finlay Evans, Victoria Paynter, Ethan Cowie, Teilo Crow, Chloe Street-Griffiths, Maddy Woods, and Joanne Jaffey.

Amy Stapleton and Pete Opoku-Denkyi got A* with Distinction for their Further Maths GCSE, the fourth year we have offered this course. Achieving a distinction puts their result amongst the top scores in the country.

Our school Carol Service was held in St Mary Redcliffe Church on Monday 17th December. Our choir performed a selection of seasonal carols and compositions which were interspersed with readings, prayers and reflections. This year we had our largest ever brass ensemble and a choir made up of over 50 SMRT pupils, sixth formers, staff and a handful of former students who we were pleased to welcome back to sing with us. It was particularly encouraging to have some of our youngest pupils from James House singing in the choir and playing in the brass ensemble.

Here are some recordings from the evening; Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ (from Messiah), Mendelssohn’s ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’ and ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

O Come All Ye Faithful

Our examination results are very good again. We are very proud of all our students and of their hard work and talents. Congratulations also to all staff on their hard work, inspirational support for learning and attention to detail, and sheer determination in supporting our students to achieve so well. Congratulations to all our parents/carers on their care and guidance and support during the stress of examinations.

An example of the amazing press coverage we received this year

A Level

GCSE

Notable successes were Hannah Gardner, Alice Bentley, David Carey-Jones, Gloriana Suri, George Wicks, Joe Speers, Caleb Van Ryneveld, Grace Evans, Ben Underhill, Ellen Harris, Maddie Ball, and Emily Elizabeth Hacker.

Congratulations to George Wicks and Sam Bretton who won the Maths Department Pi competition on 14 March. They were able to recite Pi to a very impressive 314 decimal places!

Sam and George, along with Joe Spears, were also part of the Year 11 group who took part in the national MathsBombe competition, which was launched by the University of Manchester. The competition was open to all students up to Year 13. They came 6th place overall, which was an impressive performance competing against over 300 schools. They even won a special prize for one of their solutions. My thanks go particularly to Mr Netto, who has supported the students

The examination results are very good again. We are very proud of all our students and of their hard work and talents. Congratulations also to all staff on their hard work, inspirational support for learning and attention to detail, and sheer determination in supporting our students to achieve so well. Congratulations to all our parents/carers on their care and guidance and support during the stress of examinations.  

Some of the press coverage we received this year

A2 (A Level)
The overall pass rate was 99%. 81% of grades were C and above.

There was a very high take up of university places. We have 11 students awarded places at Oxford and Cambridge and 9 are taking them up; Toby Tallis (Natural Sciences Cambridge), Bill Golden (History and Economics Oxford), Edie Turner (Philosophy Cambridge), and Lottie Sellers (History Oxford). Also Adrianna Hunt (English Cambridge), Josh Lanham (Geography Oxford), Stanley Wilshire (Geography Oxford), Lula Innes (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies Cambridge) and Daffyd Alexander (Art Oxford).

Two students off to study medicine are Beranger Igiraneza (Medicine Bristol), who won his place with the support of the Bristol Scholars Scheme, and Kadija Meghrawi (Medicine Bristol), who picked up her results on her birthday!

Other notable successes were Amy Smith (Natural Sciences Durham), Luke Hatton (TBC), Matthew Forth (Aerospace Engineering Bristol), James Gibson (Economics and Economic History LSE), Kate Bentley (Gap Year), Thandi Madula (TBC), Christopher Allen (Ancient History Durham), Emily Brown (Geog/International Development UEA), Amaya Cosgrove (History Leeds), Erin Davies (Chemistry Cardiff), Martha Eustace (Architecture Bath), Abby Harding (TBC), Finn Heath (Physics Lancaster), Adela Mackie (Law Bristol), Emily Mayon-White (Eng Lit Edinburgh), Alex Moore (History Leeds), Maura Rolls (Eng Lit/Creative Writing Newcastle), Maia Tamrakar (Gap Year), and Jack Underhill (Gap Year).

GCSE
In Maths and English, the new number grades were introduced. 4 is equivalent to a C. 7 is equivalent to an A.

This year there was a 99.7% pass rate (last year 99.1%) and 83.6% of grades were at C/4 or above (last year 78.4%). 32.3% of grades were at A/7 or above (last year 31.8%)

We are really proud of all our students who achieved so well. An impressive 5 students achieved two grade 9s on the new mark systems for English Literature, English Language and Maths, and another 6 got 1 grade 9. Grade 9 is much harder to achieve than the old A* and is the equivalent of an ‘elite super A*’! 17 students gained 9 or more grade A/7+ qualifications. 

High attaining students included Eleanor Heaps, Grace George, Ben Kelly, Adina Gitahi, Beth Nott, Emily Moore, Will Rodliffe, Tim Gibberd, Nadia Vryoni-Dickson, Sophie Greenwood, Louisa Paynter and Ella Khanna.

Both Ben Kelly and Beth Nott got A* with Distinction for their Further Maths GCSE, the second year we have offered this course. Achieving a distinction puts their results amongst the top scores in the country.

We were very proud of the excellent rise in Maths and English higher grades. Grades C/4 in both English and Maths rose from 75.5% last year to 86.9% this year. The new grade 5 represents a high C or low B and 68.4% of our students got a 5 or above in English and Maths compared to an average of 42.1% for the City. I want to congratulate both staff and students on the way they tackled teaching and revising for the tough new Maths and English exams.