Exams

A Level Examinations

The wide range of A level courses offered at St Bede's has again helped students to achieve their best possible grades and continue their education at their first choice of university. This year St Bede's students are celebrating 62% A-B grades and an overall pass rate of 97% - wonderful results for a school that is non-selective which demonstrate real value-added.

Subjects that particularly stand out this year include English Literature in which students achieved an impressive 49% A grades, Philosophy and Ethics had a 66% A grade pass rate and Art saw 19 of the 30 students taking the A level achieve grade A. Six students won As in Further Maths and 22 students gained As in Maths.

Alice Rudge from Mayfield is off to Cambridge to read Music, thanks to her 4As, including English Literature which she took in one year, achieving only a few marks short of 100%. Laila Dowse from Bexhill will be reading Physiological Sciences at Oxford having gained As in her Sciences, Maths and Latin.

Other outstanding successes include Jo Leigh from Bexhill who gained As in Chemistry, Maths and Further Maths and a B in Physics, guaranteeing her place at Loughborough to read Aeronautical Engineering and Beth Brown from Ringmer whose As in English, History and Maths coupled with her B in Spanish will take her to Leeds to read English.

Duncan Ayles achieved 3As, Bruno Riddy from Lewes achieved 3As and a B and Zi Chao Song, one of St Bede's international students, gained As in Accounting, Cantonese, Economics, Maths and Further Maths and a B in Physics AS level.

GCSE Examinations

Students at St Bede’s Senior School achieved an 84% grade A*-C pass rate this year and a number of students celebrated not just a fist full of A* and A GCSE passes, but also grade A passes at AS and A level. Most of these students had taken English and Maths GCSEs one or two years early, enabling them to begin A level courses ahead of schedule.

Thomas Key from Eastbourne achieved four A* and four A grades at GCSE but also won an A grade at Maths A level. Peter Butler-Way from Seaford opened his envelope to discover nine A* and one A pass at GCSE and also achieved full marks in AS English Language this year. Rebecca Chan attained 10 GCSEs at A* grade and also passed two AS level Maths units, both with a grade A. Naomi Brown from Ringmer added six GCSEs at A* and three GCSEs at A grade to the A grade result in English Language she received last week.

Amy Widdicombe from Forest Row gained six A*s and four As and Stephanie Ketley, one of St Bede’s top swimmers, currently winning top national times in her age group and who trains every day, still managed to notch up four A*s and four A grades.

Twenty four students took both English Language and English Literature a year early and between them achieved 75% A*s and As