Dauntsey’s show-jumping team has won the National Schools’ Championship at the All England Showground at Hickstead, beating schools from across the country in an exciting jump-off.

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*.

​Leighton Park’s 80-strong cohort of Year 11 students were up bright and early this morning eager to collect their GCSE results. Whilst all were keen to discover the outcome of two years’ dedicated study, many were equally keen join the Sixth Form next autumn, ranked the Best in Berkshire and in the Top 40 nationally for academic progress.

​Felsted pupils have recorded outstanding results in their GCSE exams this summer, following on from excellent results in A Levels and record results in the International Baccalaureate.