IN PICTURES: 15 snaps of joy and relief on the faces of Ripon Grammar students celebrating their GCSE results
Natasha Audsley
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Ripon Grammar students achieve the results they deserve after three years of dedication and determination. (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
Ripon Grammar School headmaster Jonathan Webb described students as having “worked through adversity and disruption to achieve strong results” this year.
Here, readers can see the joy and relief felt by students as they receive their results which are to take them into the next stages of their professional life.
Ripon Grammar School headmaster Jonathan Webb praised students for working through adversity and disruption. (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
The students show joy and relief receiving their results. (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
The students hard work paid off in what was considered a difficult year but the schools headmaster. (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
Mr Webb said: “I am delighted so many of our GCSE students have done so well this year." (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
Mr Webb said: With the regrading of results to pre-pandemic levels there has been a degree of national uncertainty as overall pass rates had fallen." (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
Mr Webb said: "These are a strong set of results which now allow them to access their chosen pathway for further study." (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
Mr Webb said: “My thanks as always to their teaching staff who have supported them so well.” (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
Ripon Grammar has 122 students in the year group who achieved a total of 432 grades 9-8, the equivalent of the old A* grades. (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
More than 90% of grades were 9-5(A*-B)s and 57.3% were 9-7(A*-A)s.
Ripon Grammar students are now facing their futures confidently as they approach the next stages of their lives. (Photo: Ripon Grammar)
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