A new qualification in philosophy for GCSE and pre-GCSE level students launched yesterday. Developed in partnership between Cranleigh School and the New College for the Humanities, the School Certificate in Philosophy has been trialled by Lower Fifth pupils this year. It will be nationally available from September.

Phenomenal results and league table ranking. Babington House School is top of the London Borough of Bromley league table for A level results and ranked third for GCSE results, with 93% of pupils achieving Grade 5 or above in Maths and English.

After a set of outstanding GCSE results, ​Burgess Hill Girls has been confirmed as the top school in West Sussex and the top girls’ school in Sussex as a whole.

Girls at St Swithun’s School, Winchester are celebrating excellent examination results with 29.5% of entries achieving the top grade 9 in the new I/GCSE courses, compared to the national average of 4.3%.

Brentwood School students collected their GCSE results today and despite the national trend suggesting that the top ‘9’ grade was fairly unobtainable with only 4% of pupils achieving one, 18% of Brentwood School pupils received 9s in those subjects graded in the new way. A remarkable 29 students received all A*As / 9-7s, in the School’s third best results in ten years.

For every school across the country comparison of results with previous years has become almost an impossibility, writes Headmaster Simon Williams. Not only do we have a mix of letter and number grades across the subjects, in some individual subjects you may even also have a mix of letters and numbers where some pupils have taken an exam a year early as our top Mathematicians have, and all those were graded A*.