We are delighted with the A Level and GCSE results achieved this summer at Kendrick School. We are very pleased and proud of our students and congratulate them on their incredible achievements, and we celebrate their success.

We acknowledge and appreciate the hard work that all the students have done in their studies over the last two years in difficult and uncertain circumstances. Throughout this time, our students have demonstrated resilience, determination and focus, working closely and collaboratively with their teachers and staff.

Many thanks to our teachers and staff, governors and parents whose support and encouragement has contributed to the results achieved this year.

Our very best wishes to our Year 13 students who are planning and preparing for the next stage in their lives. Also, to the few Year 11 students who are moving to other institutions for their A Level studies. We thank them for everything they have done for Kendrick and wish them well for the future.

Of our A level students, the success rate of university placements is extremely high. Out of 157 students (including 26 'Year 14' students) 128 students gained their first choice university place and 11 gained their insurance place. The universities and courses that students have gone on to can be found in Destinations 2022 section of the website.

This was another unusual year for public examinations. Following two years of teacher and centre assessed grades it was a welcome return to written national examinations. It is not a normal year as adjustments were made to the format of the exams in some subjects and the grade boundaries were set to give a national distribution of grades that lie between the 2019 and 2021 distributions. This approach has been seen as reasonable across the education sector. It does mean another year in which analysis of results and value added calculations are very difficult as there are no other years with the same standard of grade boundaries to make comparisons with.

At Kendrick at both A level and GCSE the proportion of the highest grades is very high, and we are extremely pleased with the results of our students.

Headline figures

• At A Level 75% of grades awarded were at  A* or A
• At GCSE 83% of grades awarded were at 9 or 8

We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our students with staff, parents and students at our A Level and GCSE Presentation of Certificate events later in the term.