In a second disrupted year, we are thrilled to announce another set of stunning GCSE results for our Year 11 students.
56% all results are at Grade 7 or better, 37% at Grade 8 or better and 18% at Grade 9. Eighteen students scored at least 9 Grade 8s or better, and almost two-fifths achieved at least 8 GCSEs at Grade 7 or better.
Grades were awarded on the basis of teacher assessments, fully quality-assured by the school, and moderated by the Exam Boards. While the system inevitably has some drawbacks it is gratifying that it has recognised the talents of our students.
In several subjects, over 25% of all grades were at Grade 9: Latin (100%), Ivrit (66.7), Jewish Education, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Film, Media, PE, and History.
Our ‘value-added’ score, measuring progress during students’ time at JCoSS, is by some distance our strongest ever. The percentage of results at Grade 5 and above (a ‘strong pass’) has increased to 87.4, with 95.6% of grades at 4 or better (A*-C on the old system).
As last year, the list of top achievers is more gender-balanced than has formerly been the case. Among many outstanding individual performances (which in some cases are in addition to exams taken in previous years) are those of:
Michaela Jackson 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Natan Boyd 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Daniella Finch Cohen 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8
Adam Jacobs 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8
Scarlett Sherman 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8
Lara Gubbay 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8
Samuel Gassner 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8
Dillon Waterman 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8
Sarah Clif 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8
Hannah Meyerowitz 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8
Isaac Reuben 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8
There are many other students whose grades are stunning either as raw results or in terms of their personal achievement against challenging odds, or both.
Headteacher Patrick Moriarty commented:
‘We rejoice with our students and their families at the excellent results that they have achieved – both in absolute outcomes and in meeting and exceeding personal goals. They have faced huge uncertainty and difficulty during the course of the 2-year GCSE courses and have risen to the challenges with phenomenal resilience.
‘I salute their unrelenting hard work, and that of their teachers, and pay tribute to parents who have done so much to support them in unexpected ways during the pandemic. JCoSS has sustained its high standards of community and academic excellence throughout, and I am delighted that our students’ achievements and my colleagues’ professionalism has been so fulsomely recognised.’
