Statement on Strong GCSE Performance
13th October 2017
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As you may be aware, the Department for Education released provisional GCSE data earlier this week on their website. We are delighted to see that our students have done extremely well in several areas in comparison to the national and local picture. It gives us great pleasure to be able to report that we were placed in the top three schools in Cheshire East in the important measure of students gaining a standard pass (4+) in both English and Maths. We were also placed sixth in the ‘basics’ measure of the proportion of students gaining Grade 5 or above in both English and Maths. We are also happy to report that we are in the top 5 schools in the county for attainment in the Ebacc measure. These are pleasing results which will yet again mean that we feature in the top quartile for attainment in the country.

Progress 8 scores are very much a reflection of the curriculum which students study in any given school. As a values driven school, we take a very clear stance on what we teach students. Our curriculum will always be built around the needs of our students rather than school league tables. Without a doubt, we could very quickly improve our Progress 8 score by, for example, forcing all students to take the full suite of Ebacc subjects or by entering youngsters for qualifications that are easy to pass but have limited value as far as sixth forms, colleges and employers are concerned. We believe this would be wrong and I am happy to accept that, on this measure at least, the official performance tables will not truly and accurately reflect how well we are doing.

I would like to take this opportunity to once again congratulate the youngsters who did extremely well in the GCSE examinations.

Mr Emmanuel Botwe
Headteacher
Tytherington School