STROUD HIGH SCHOOL students have received top marks in their A-level results. 

Over half of all SHS students achieved A* or A grades.  

Headteacher Mark McShane has congratulated students and said this year’s results are ‘fabulous’. 

“There are few more exciting mornings in school than when our sixth formers find out how they have performed in their exams”, he said. 

“There is no doubt that the pandemic has defined so much of the past few years, but I do not want it to cast a shadow over the celebration of the achievements of our year 13 students. 

“Today has been about what staff, students and parents have all made possible and it has been inspiring to see how the students and staff have collectively responded over the past two years.  

“The students have been a truly exceptional year group and I am thrilled for them that they have received the results their efforts merit.” 

Over 54 per cent of all students received a set of A-level grades that were higher than AAB. 

Also 27% of all entries were graded A* and 18 students across the A-level cohort achieved a full set of A* grades. 

Six students will attend either Oxford and Cambridge University in October. 

The results have enabled students to attend their first choice of university with courses including: medicine, engineering, criminology, fashion design, languages, psychology, history and English literature. 

Some students will make a start at companies with higher apprenticeships like Dyson while others are heading to art college and other creative courses. 

These students included: 

  • Caitlin (A*AB) to study history and political economy at Kings College London
  • Steph (ABC) to study psychology at Buckinghamshire 
  • Lauren (AAA) to study politics and international relations at Goldsmiths 
  • Saul Pontac (A* AA) to study medicine after a gap year
  • Kiran Carter (A*AB) will have a gap year
  • Toby Fuller (A*AA) will have a gap year and then will study music  
  • Jay Manson Whitton (A*A*A*) to study mathematics at Cambridge University
  • Rachel Fairfax (A*A*A*) will start a degree apprenticeship at Vodaphone
  • Rosie Cairns (A*A*A*A*) to study chemistry with a year abroad at Cardiff
  • Anna Obure (A*A*A*) to study computer sciences at Southampton University 
  • Kate Measroch (A*A*A*A) to study mathematics at Warwick University
  • Erika Mawer (A*A*A) to study architecture at Cambridge University
  • Poppy Halliwell (A*A*A) to study history at Leeds University
  • Pippa Wilson Autzen (A*A*A*) will study an art foundation
  • Fiona Hann (A*A*A*A*) will start a degree apprenticeship with Dyson
  • Charlie Lovell (A*AA)
  • Laura Simpson (A*AA) will study paramedic sciences at St Georges University of London
  • Ella McCarthy (A*A*A*) will study geography at Durham
  • Florence Priestley (A*A*A) will study biomedical sciences at Southampton University
  • Lucy Walton (A*AB) will study dietetics at Newcastle University
  • Emily Cannon (A* A A) will study forensic science at Nottingham Trent
  • Annabelle Bath (A*A*A*) will study medicine at Oxford University
  • Rowan Ward (AAB) will study midwifery
  • Yasmin Kashfi (AAA) will study biochemistry at Birmingham University 

Pictures by Simon Pizzey