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COLFOX ACHIEVES OUTSTANDING RESULTS AT GCSE |
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Students at the Sir John Colfox school achieved an amazing 83% 5A*-C in their GCSE’s. 99.4% of the students achieved 5 GCSE passes. These results are well above the national average of 69% 5 A* - C.
"I was really thrilled," said Headteacher Kay Taylor. "Last year’s results were amazing and to do even better is wonderful. I was particularly pleased with the performance of the boys. We have been working to improve this for some time and this year the boys did better than the girls overall, particularly in Maths and Science. All students, right across the ability range, performed well. The target for the year group, based on their performance at primary school, was 68%. We always knew we would add value to this but 14% better is higher than we expected!"
81% of the science grades were A*-C and almost 25% were A*-A. "Science results have been improving in the school", said Kay Taylor, "but this is a really outstanding result and shows that the different choices in Science, including doing the three separate sciences, is really working".
65% of the students achieved A*-C in English and 61% in Maths.
There were large numbers of A*/A grades across all subjects. 15% of students had 5 or more A*/A.
Those with large numbers of A*/A’s include:
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OUTSTANDING RESULTS AT A LEVEL |
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The 2010 A level results continued the trend of improving results, especially at the higher grades. This was the first year of the new A* grade and newspapers were predicting that state schools would do badly achieving around 5% of the new grade as against independent schools who would achieve around 15% of these grades.
AT SJC 13% OF THE GRADES WERE A*. 30% of all the grades were A* or A. This was outstanding.
Overall there was an improvement of 5% in the A*/B grades to 55% - over half of all the grades.
“I was really delighted for the students, their families and the school,” said Kay Taylor. “Students and staff have worked really hard for this. The key thing about results is whether the students achieve what they need to be able to go on to what they want to do. Students face even greater challenges this year with less university places but our students have again bucked the trend with almost all of them confirmed in the courses they wanted to follow including 4 students heading to Oxford or Cambridge. The students have done themselves and their school proud!”
Particular thanks goes to Ms Fender and her team of tutors for their support of the students throughout the year.
Students who did particularly well at A2 include:
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Welcome to The Sir John Colfox School Website |
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The Sir John Colfox School is an 11-18 school serving the town and community of Bridport. We are very proud of being a truly comprehensive community school and strive to meet the needs of all students in our school.
Standards of achievement in the school are good and improving. The curriculum is based upon meeting the differing needs of students through offering student choice and a variety of different routes to appropriate qualifications. Students are treated as individuals and challenged to do their best and to positively contribute to the school community.
As a specialist language college we are able to offer unusually generous opportunities for learning languages, for travel abroad and for lending an international dimension to our curriculum.
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Work continues over the summer break on the Colfox School extension. This work was given the green light before the recent government spending squeeze. Please find more information and pictures below.
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AS and A level exam results are available from the school on Thursday 19th August between 9.30am and 11.00am and GCSE on Tuesday 24th August between 9.30am and 11.00am.
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Start of Term Arrangements |
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Start of Term Arrangements for Year 7 - 11
Students in Years 7-11 should return to school on THURSDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER.
Start of Term for Sixth Form
Year 13 return to school (8.45am – 12.30pm) on THURSDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER.
Year 12 return to school on FRIDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER.
The Head of Sixth will arrange interviews with Year 12/13 students if necessary. Otherwise timetables have been prepared for all Sixth Form students in advance.
Please alert Ms Fender if you wish to change subjects on the exam results days, or contact the school on
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School Uniform Consultation Update |
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Thank you to all who responded during the consultation period.
No decision has been reached about the school uniform. The Governors will decide if there is to be a change of uniform at their meeting in October.
The results of the consultation were:
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