Village News & Views

St. Katherine’s School Open Days

I would like to invite you and your family to St. Katherine’s School Open Evening on Thursday 15 September 2011

We are planning an Open Evening for parents considering St Katherine’s. The evening will give you the opportunity to tour our school, meet the Staff, Governors and Students. I will be making a presentation at 6.30 pm and again at 7.30 pm in our Lecture Theatre.

Our prospectus and information pack will be available for you to collect. Please also visit our website at www.st-katherines.n-somerset.sch.uk which is full of information for both parents and students, about our school and life at St. Katherine’s.

We will be holding further Open Mornings on Tuesday 22 September, Thursday 24 September and Thursday 8 October from 9 to 11am.

University Success for A level students
at St. Katherine’s School

Year 13 students at St. Katherine's School in Ham Green have particular reason to be celebrating their A level results. Despite it being the most competitive year ever for students applying to university, all but three of St. Katherine's students achieved the grades they required to secure their place.

The school's overall pass rate was 97.3%. The average UCAS point score per student was an impressive 306, reflecting a significant percentage of A, A and B grades.

Amongst the happy students looking forward to beginning their university courses are Hannah Smith who achieved two A* grades and an A. She is heading to Exeter University to read psychology. Luke Pellett achieved two As and a B and is going to read geography at Manchester University. Piran Hobbs got an A* and two Bs and will read psychology at Surrey. Claire Williams achieved an A and two Bs and will study English and American literature at Kent University.

Headteacher Stephanie Quayle said "We are delighted that our students have almost all met their personal A level targets and gained their university places. These results are even better than our record results in 2010. Our students deserve these excellent results. They have worked extremely hard and had great support from their teachers and families. We wish them every success for the future. I am especially pleased for Aimi Bisco who joined us as head of sixth form last September. She has been instrumental in helping our students achieve these great results."

St. Katherine’s School GCSE Results

“St. Katherine’s reaches 90% after six successive years of improvement”

St. Katherine’s School in Ham Green, near Bristol is celebrating its best-ever GCSE results. Everyone at the school is absolutely delighted to learn that an incredible 90% of students achieved five or more A* to C grades – the highest ever achieved by a North Somerset school. 37% of students achieved three or more A* or A grades.

The school has now had six years of strong improvement since 2005 when 50% achieved five good GCSEs. Year on year St. Katherine’s has seen its results improve from 50%, to 52%, to 58%, 69%, 70% and 82% last year. These improvements are an outstanding achievement for the school.

Headteacher Stephanie Quayle said: “This school year has been an incredibly successful one for St. Katherine’s School as we saw the opening of our brilliant hospitality facility and student-led community restaurant, an excellent Ofsted report and outstanding A level results last week. Today’s GCSE results, with 90% of students achieving five good GCSEs, top all these achievements.”

As a specialist science college, the school is particularly pleased with today’s science results where 100% of students who took GCSE Triple Science were awarded A* - C grades in Biology, Physics and Chemistry and 75% of those who took double award science achieved two or more A*-C grades. Over 50% of students achieved A*-C grades for Maths and English.

St. Katherine’s is a national lead school for Gifted and Talented work and are really pleased to see that today more than one in every three students achieved three or more A* or A grades. Headteacher Stephanie Quayle added: “We are delighted that these results reflect outstanding performances by a very large number of students. The students and staff at St. Katherine’s worked exceptionally hard this year and deserve to be hugely proud of their achievements.”