The Chronicle, Autumn 2018

15 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

Academic Results 2018

The upward trend in academic results continued in 2018 with 81% of all A Level and International Baccalaureate grades secured at A*-B or Levels 7-5. These are our best results ever and are sharply up from 70% in 2012 when our new academic programme was introduced. At A Level, 76% of grades were A*-B. In the IB Diploma, the average point score was 34; 85% of all grades were levels 7-5. At GCSE, 85% of grades were A*-B or the numerical equivalent; all those pictured achieved 11 A*/A. The Warden said, ‘I am enormously proud of our pupils and staff. Teddies enthusiastically welcomes pupils with a broad range of academic abilities – it is a huge part of our character and ethos. For our pupils to have achieved results

of this calibre is quite simply outstanding. Even more pleasing is to look at how far we have come in the past few years. The step change in academic performance has been brought about by hard work, new approaches and dedicated staff. I am grateful to everyone, not least the pupils themselves, for their effort and industry. I have no doubt that the outstanding new academic facilities currently being constructed in the Quad will fuel even greater ambition and success’. Top university destinations this year were Exeter, Edinburgh, London (Imperial College, King’s College, University College and Queen Mary), Bristol, Leeds and Newcastle. Three pupils took up places at the University of Oxford and, overseas, pupils took up places at the University

of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Los Angeles; Boston University; the Rhode Island School of Design; the University of Southern California; Amsterdam University; and Bocconi University in Milan.

Left to right: Alex MacCrindle, Olivia Heath, Alexander Koenig, Neha Kurup, Benedict Machin, Aniella Weinberger, Ella Leeson, Natalia Elezovic, William Tozer, Gwendoline Davenport, Alessandro Corrias, Giles Wordsworth, Milly Bracey, Alicia Bouaziz, Ben Courtney-Guy, Mike Denvir, Kitty Howard, Florence von Simson, Ferdi van der Heiden, Caris Baker, Elaine Gschwandtner and, inset, Sophie Marston and Carlo Graeser.