The class of 2024 have made a very positive contribution to our school community in so many ways and I’m delighted that their hard work, resilience and ambition is reflected in their excellent achievements.

We are incredibly proud of them and are confident that they will continue to be successful, making a positive contribution to the communities to which they belong.

Our strong results are particularly pleasing as this is the first cohort since the pandemic to have been examined in the full syllabus of every subject, In preparation for this, all pupils were offered over 500 hours of extra revision tuition throughout the year ensuring every pupil was supported to do their very best. Over a third of our pupils achieved a value-added score of over one grade per subject.

We have had a wonderful morning celebrating the successes of our GCSE students. We are proud and pleased with the hard work of students, staff and of course the support of parents and carers, during the year groups' time here at HHS. Many are going on study A levels, T levels and vocational courses at 6th Forms or colleges whilst others are going on to apprenticeships and football scholarships.

We wish all students the very best in their next adventures and look forward to hearing of their further successes.

Congratulations to our Key Stage 4 students in the Faculty and College on your incredible GCSE results. We are absolutely thrilled with your outstanding performance. Every single one of you has excelled across a broad range of qualifications, and we couldn’t be prouder.

Enjoy your summer break, and we can't wait to welcome you back in September. Well done to everyone. 

We are delighted that our 2024 GCSE pupils have produced an excellent set of results despite the challenges that covid inflicted for this year group when they started their secondary school career.

With grading now being set at pre-Covid levels (2019 results) the percentage of subjects awarded at grades 9 - 5 all but matched that of 2019. Physics, widely perceived as one of the more demanding GCSE subjects, saw nearly 50% of our entrants gain the top grades of 9 or 8.

Many congratulations are offered to our Year 11 pupils who have gained results that will see them well-placed for making applications to high-ranking universities in a year’s time.

It has been such a privilege to share these important moments with our students and their families. Having seen them work so hard we are delighted to see their efforts rewarded this morning.

With these results our students will now have choices about their post 16 career. They also take with them the wonderful character they have shown over the last five years. We wish all our student’s great success in their next steps and look forward to seeing many of them return to our Sixth Form in September to begin Year 12 with us.

Today is all about our wonderful Year 11 students but I would like to thank all the parents and families for their continued support and to all my fantastic colleagues who help to make these results possible.

Despite the disruption in the early years of their secondary education, they embraced learning at HGS and seized every opportunity – including early morning revision sessions and even Saturday school.

Behind each grade is the unique story of each student – a story of resilience and perseverance. The remarkable individual achievements today deserve much recognition, and we applaud this success. We sincerely thank students for all their efforts.

We fully appreciate the support that parents have provided during their children’s time with us – it is this partnership between home and school which continues to be the foundation for our success at HGS. We would also like to thank our teachers and staff who have worked so brilliantly to support students.

We wish students all the very best in the exciting next stage of their education. 

These fantastic results are the outcome of the commitment and partnership working of the whole community – staff, students, and parents. We are so proud of our students and look forward to seeing their continued success; many of them in our fantastic Sixth Form.

It is difficult to compare each year group of students as they are all unique. Nevertheless, it is pleasing that these results provide more students with a wider range of options for the next stage of their lives. It is important to remember that this is set against the backdrop of significant pandemic disruption for these students during their first few years of secondary school.

It is a privilege to work with young people who have such high aspirations, and it is wonderful to see students of all abilities excelling academically as well as witnessing their spiritual and personal growth during their time with us.

I would like to thank our families for working in close partnership with the school throughout the past five years which has contributed significantly to students securing these fantastic outcomes. My thanks also to our dedicated teaching and support staff. They have worked incredibly hard to support our students’ academic and personal development and to prepare them to progress on to their post-16 studies.

We are passionate about each pupil at Harrogate Ladies’ College forging their own path, and these results across diverse subjects are testament to the pupils’ desire to try different things and find their passion.

To have a number of girls achieve excellent marks across a wide variety of subjects is fantastic to see. Our teachers’ commitment to the pupils is second-to-none, and I am very proud of their continued efforts to ensure our pupils are lifelong learners.

We are so very proud of all of our students as they continue to navigate the many challenges created by the disruption to their education during the pandemic and in the years that have followed. It has required the very highest levels of determination, resilience, and commitment from students, together with exceptional levels of support from staff and families.

We are proud of everything our school community has done to ensure success for our students and help them to take their next steps towards their future studies and careers. Above and beyond their academic achievements, many of our Year 11s have been role models for the kindness and respect that is so important to who we are as a school. We wish them all the very best for their future.

One of our key objectives with each and every child at Queen Mary’s is to find her ‘spark’. All our Year 10 and 11 pupils who have taken GCSE examinations this summer have discovered their strengths and interests.

These marvellous results are a testament to great commitment and talent from pupils and teachers alike. They all should be extremely proud of their many achievements. Queen Mary’s ethos, with the aim to balance academic excellence with wonderful all-round opportunities, leads to happiness and success.

The work that students and staff have put in and the support from all the parents and carers has really paid off. The results the school has achieved is very well deserved. We are thrilled for all our young people as they move on to the next stage of their education.

The school had some excellent individual successes with nearly 20% of students gaining grade 7’s and above (the old grade A pass). Some students who faced difficulties in their personal lives over the past few years have done incredibly well. This is a very proud day for the school and we wish to thank everyone for the support, commitment and dedication to the students at St Aidan’s.

My congratulations go to all our students who have worked so hard for these results which come as the culmination of five years of academic endeavour. It has been a tricky few years to navigate and they have risen to the challenge.

I wish all the students of Year 11 the best of luck with their post-16 choices, whether at RGS or an alternative institution.