Alton Convent Sixth Form is delighted that this year’s 100% A2 and AS level pass rate continues the tradition of 100% success in all A level subjects since the creation of the new Sixth Form Centre in September 2000.

Even though internet access enabled students to discover their grades in advance of the traditional results day, most chose to come into the school to share their successes with friends and teachers.  The opening of results envelopes was still an important moment of truth, reflecting their years of hard work.

Mrs Sue Kirkham, headmistress, referred to the media reports of the high numbers of students, 25.9% nationally, achieving a grade A and observed that the Convent students achieved nearly twice that with 48.1% gaining A grades. In fact 83.2% achieved grades A and B and over 95%  achieved grades A-C. The average point score of 384.8 equated to every girl achieving more than three grade As.

A number of girls gained straight As, including Emily who is going to Bristol to study Biochemistry, Emelia  to Manchester to study Law and Amey  to Liverpool to study Medicine. Sue Kirkham was delighted to report that all the girls had secured places at their chosen universities to follow a wide range of courses across all disciplines including Anthropology, English, Geography, Law with French Law and Language, Mathematics, Molecular and Cellular Biology,  Psychology, and Real Estate Management.

The school is also celebrating the successes of the lower sixth students where the A grade scores overwhelmingly outnumbered any others and over half the students achieved A grades in at least three subjects.

Armed with these results and secure in their university places, a number of students are off to the Convent’s sister school in India to work with less privileged children in a few days’ time.  Sue Kirkham believes that students’ success cannot simply be measured in terms of exam achievement, impressive though this may be. The school encourages girls of all ages to take part in extra curricular enrichment activities to develop the whole person and to have a sense of the wider world.

The school continues to be committed to its wider access policy and has major sixth form scholarship places for local students educated in the state system up to GCSE level.