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Record breaking A level results!

Sheffield High School is celebrating once again on A level results day!The break down of grades shows a record year as 83% of students achieved A/B with 58% at grade A. Amazingly almost half the students achieved straight A’s!

Once again the girls at Sheffield High are bucking the trend with large numbers of them achieving outstanding results in Maths and the Sciences with Biology and Chemistry being the subjects with the largest uptake at the school. All the Oxbridge candidates have secured places in their chosen field.

Strengths in Maths and Science

Once again the girls at Sheffield High have shown that they can buck the national trend at A-level, with large numbers of them achieving outstanding results in Maths and the Sciences, with Biology and Chemistry being the subjects with the largest uptake at the school. All our Oxbridge candidates have secured places in their chosen field

“I would like to congratulate both the girls and the staff on these fantastic achievements,” said Valerie Dunsford, Head at Sheffield High School, “I am proud that our students regularly achieve over and above expectations.”

The Further Maths students at Sheffield High are celebrating their results together as every one of the group not only achieved grade A in further maths but they also all achieved 5 grade A’s each! They are –

• Alison Andrew, who is off to Cambridge to read Economics after a gap year teaching in a children’s home in Bangladesh. She achieved grade ‘A’ in Geography, Physics, Maths and Further Maths A-levels with Art & Design AS-level. This year, Alison has also won the GDST Travel Scholarship, she was Highly Commended for the Trust Somerville and Gurney Award and runner up in the Minerva Award

• Nicola Chan-Lam, who is the U18 National Singles Badminton Champion, is off to read Maths and Actuarial Science at Manchester with her five grade As in German, Maths, Further Maths and Physics. She also has a grade ‘A’ in Sports Studies at AS-level

• Isabel Henley is off to Durham to read maths, having gained her grade A results in Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Further Maths with AS-level History

• Amy Ruddleston from Wickersley, Rotherham has gained a place at Edinburgh University to study Engineering. She gained five grade A results in Biology, Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths at A-level and AS-level History

• Head Girl, Taj Tomouk, from Sheffield has achieved 5 grade A’s and a merit in the Advanced Extension Award in Biology! The talented all-rounder, who has competed in athletics and hockey for the School, is going on to study medicine at Cambridge following her resounding success in achieving grade A’s in Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Further Maths with AS-level German

• Wen Jun Zhu is the last of the Further Maths group and her success is perhaps the most remarkable. She joined the school in Year 11 from China knowing with little English and with no family here, just staying with a

guardian and then latterly living independently. She took GCSEs in a few subjects and then embarked on A-levels. Wen Jun passed her Further Maths, Maths, Chinese and Chemistry all at grade A and also AS-level Economics.

International Tennis Player off to the USA on a Scholarship

Sheffield tennis player Annabel Gledden, one of the country’s brightest prospects, has got the chance to further her tennis prowess at a top US University. Annabel has been offered a four year academic/sports full
scholarship at the crack Santa Barbara University in California. Today she is celebrating her straight As in her A-levels in English Language, History and Sports Studies with her fourth in General Studies at AS-level.

Eleven Year Old Gains Grade A in her Japanese AS-level

Year 6 Junior School pupil at Sheffield High School, Emily Hogg, aged eleven from Middlewood passed her AS-level Japanese with a grade A! This followed last year’s A* in Japanese GCSE which she passed at the tender age of 10. Meanwhile, Year 10 pupil Verity Bridge passed her AS-level French two years early at the age of 15.