Gleed’s promise over poor GCSE showing
A SPALDING head-teacher says there is “no excuse” for poor GCSE pass rates and has vowed not to let it happen at their school again.
Janet Daniels, head of the now federated Sir John Gleed School, says the girls’ campus can do better after it was left in the bottom five schools in Lincolnshire for the number of pupils gaining five or more A*-C GCSEs including English and maths.
The Gleed Girls’ position was revealed last week as the Department for Education released national league tables based on the results from the summer.
The school suffered a 14 per cent drop in its pass rate to 37 per cent.
Mrs Daniels said: “We were very disappointed. We had a three-year upward trend and this was, although not unexpected, extremely disappointing.
“For us there is no excuse. We cannot let it happen again because our students deserve better.”
Mrs Daniels said the year group contained a high number of special educational needs students and about 20 per cent of the year group have English as an additional language.
She added: “But this is no excuse. We know we can do better. We have lots of strategies in place and we are confident that we will see an improvement back to the old standard.”
Spalding High School was among the county’s top performers, with 99 per cent of last year’s year 11 cohort achieving five or more A*-C grades, including English and maths.
Headteacher Tim Clark said: “We are very pleased. They were exceptionally good results for both GCSE and A-level exams.
“The new league tables are much more complex and it’s not just about the attainment of pupils it’s also the progress they made. At GCSE for English and maths it was phenomenal.
“We are proud of the fact we consistently get good results and that’s a tremendous achievement for staff and students.”
Countywide, the five A*-C including English and maths pass rate was 62.2 per cent – a rise of three per cent on the previous year. This puts Lincolnshire four per cent above the national average.
Out of 152 local authorities, Lincolnshire is now ranked 32nd and within the top 25 per cent of authorities nationally.
The league tables also give insight as to how each school is performing by the value added to pupils, of which the George Farmer Technology and Language College in Holbeach was one of the top achievers. The school has since become the University Academy Holbeach.
The tables also measure the English Baccalaureate, which scores the proportion of pupils achieving A*-C grades in English, maths, science, humanities (history or geography) and languages.
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Spalding
Friday 25 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 12 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 24 mph
Wind direction: East
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 12 C to 20 C
Wind Speed: 23 mph
Wind direction: East
Comments
There are 9 comments to this article
Page 1 of 1
Akaleesh
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM@ comment 8. Dont worry, CampaignForSpalding has been embarassing himself on here for a while now. His best quote expresses his wishes to be 'left alone to live with his own ethnicity' here in Spalding. So we can assume he's a bit of a heter anyway. His refers to all this brainwashing stuff quite a lot so I say let him live in his own little world. I've worked n Education a long while and i'm afraid I missed the brainwashing unit on the teacher training. He refers to me as a 'liberal' as well as if its some kind of derogatory term. I think if he probably had his way, we'd all be genetically screened to confirm the level of our 'Englishness'. I guess if you dont have a high enough percentage, you wont be allowed to live in'new world'. haha. Dont stress about people like this. Just enjoy reading their ignorant views
oldbeforetime
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:49 AMSome of the comments below serve to demonstrate what a 'traditional' education brings about. Angry, ill-informed, blinkered, reactionary drivel. I wonder when 'multicultural' became such an easy word for the right to use as a general term meaning something to be feared (lest we actually think about what it means) just like the word 'liberal' is in America. It's the same idiotic thinking that neatly blames all our woes on (shudder) foreigners! If CampaigningForSpalding wants to discuss English History then let's talk about how we are ALL a nation of immigrants. How far back does our lineage have to go to be considered English? World War II (when some of my family arrived here, dirty Mudblood that I am)? The Reformation? Saxon settlements? A bit of perspective is what is called for here, not needlessly bashing teachers,
Akaleesh
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:19 PMYou could take your case to the police if you want but they've been brainwashed as well. OOoooerr. You'd better get that high wall built as fast as you can before they get to the pure breds.
Akaleesh
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:08 PMOh god. Stuck record time. For the millionth time you boring little man please tell me where I have been an Anglophobe then I will apologise. If you cant find an example then you know where to go. I certainly am not a bully i just cant stand to read some of the nonsense that you spout. Its absurd. 'ridiculous multicultural Marxist agenda teachings'!!!?? Are you for real??? So maybe everyone teaching in this part of the world has been brainwashed too eh??? How do you know we even exist???? Maybe we're in the Matrix??? Jesus!!!
CampaigningForSpalding
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:51 PMAkaleesh, as a self confessed Anglophobe who hates the English in Spalding, I see no reason for you to comment about me, you are an anti English bully and I am fed up of being bullied by you, please leave me alone and go be Anglo-phobic to someone else, I'm surprised the website allows bullying of the English to continue? we of course don't want to take it to the police
Akaleesh
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:42 PMCampaignForSpalding....are you seriously going to pull this sort of arguement here? I think you should take a look at some of the stuff we teach. Stop trying to talk absolute BS.
ysandy
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 09:22 PMGCSE, but we will all way's need ?AH but we have the EU migrants now swapping our country for general labour, who are the absolute ruin of our country.
CampaigningForSpalding
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 06:18 PMNo excuse? The standard of teaching maybe? blame the kids as usual. Bad kids for being distracted by ridiculous multicultural Marxist agenda teachings instead of focussing on maths, Science, and most importantly English History, Alrfred and Co, not just a glimpse at 1066 but what about where the Anglo Saxons came from (all tribes) and and how they founded this very land we call England !!!! but hey, as long as they get their multicultural indoctrination fix, who cares right? Can't have kids leaving school who haven't completed the brainwashing agenda can we.
Mr Angry of Tonbridge
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 12:54 PMI wonder how the Grammar School did with their results, you know as they got a very good Ofsted report recently? Does any school in this area offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma? Doubt it because it's a bit harder than the usual exams.
Page 1 of 1
Your view
Please sign in to be able to comment on this story.