Outstanding Results at Ferndown Upper

· George Shaw: Maths A*, Physics B and Further Maths B.

· Lauren Guest: Art A*, Business B, Psychology B and EPQ B who will also be staying at Ferndown to study the Foundation Art course.

· Fiona Reynolds: Psychology A, Biology B and Chemistry B. She will be reading Biology at Southampton.

· Rebekah Tyler: Psychology A, English Language A and English Literature B, who will be studying journalism at Cardiff.

These results mean that Ferndown’s government Value Added score is a superb +0.15, which should again place the school high on the government’s performance tables, when they are released in January.

Headteacher Philip Jones said, “I would like to take this opportunity to thank both the students and their teachers for all of their hard work and dedication. These results demonstrate that Ferndown Upper’s students are definitely leading the way. We were also very pleased with the results for our STEM subjects, and our Creative Arts results were again superb, with the highlight being four A* and 4 A grades from a cohort of 12 students. Other standout subjects were our MFL provision, Sociology (for the second year in a row), Textiles, Business, HSC and Travel, where all of the students excelled. Our vocational subjects also performed very highly (Sport, Media and IT), scoring a Value Added score of +0.80, which means every student performed almost a grade better than predicted by the government. May I take this opportunity to wish all of our students all the very best for the future.”