\n Students in Wirral have been receiving their GCSE grades this morning. However the GCSE pass rate has fallen again with 67.4% of all grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at 4 or C and above.\n<\/p>\n
\n All-boys St Anselm\u2019s College in Birkenhead seems to have bucked this trend though. Girls have continued to outperform boys across the country but this year boys\u2019 results went up.\n<\/p>\n
\n The college said the number of pupils getting top grades 7 to 9 were up 10% on last year. This follows record-breaking results last week where over 20% achieved straight A* and A grades for A Level.\n<\/p>\n
\n Serena Cubbin, the college\u2019s headteacher, said: \u201cSt. Anselm\u2019s have done it again with a record number of Year 11 students securing places on their first choice A-level courses today. Congratulations, we are so proud of your remarkable achievement, a true testament to your hard work, determination and resilience.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Ewan Cartledge is one of those pupils. When he opened up his results this morning, he found out he got 4 9s and 3 8s, though that may change as he is one mark off a nine in English Language.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cI am more happy to have the results now. It\u2019s what I expected, it\u2019s a sense of relief really.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He\u2019s now going to do English Language, History, and Theology with the idea that this will take him into a career in environmental law, telling the LDRS: \u201cIt\u2019s something I really care about. I wanted to look into politics.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI want to protect the things I care about, it\u2019s a compromise. It\u2019s a law degree but I can do environmental law.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He said he has always grown up going on campervan holidays with his family and spending time in nature, adding: \u201cIf my kids wouldn\u2019t experience that, it makes me really sad. It\u2019s something we have to protect for the future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Euan McGuiness, from Wallasey, said: \u201cI am really happy. It was everything I wanted to get and some of them I have done better than expected. I was nervous. I was confident I had done well but there\u2019s always that thought that you haven\u2019t done well.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said consistency was the key to his success including two 9s and three 8s, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s been stressful and rewarding. When you come out of the exam and know you have done well, it\u2019s the best feeling.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Bliss Ayalloor said he is \u201cso glad\u201d with his results as it means he can stay on at St Anselms, telling me: \u201cIt feels like a real confidence boost. It makes me ready for the challenge of A Levels because it\u2019s going to be a massive step up.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n His dad James said: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing, we are really happy. When we asked how his exams went, he always said they went okay.\u201d His mum Jinsi added: \u201cHe did work really hard and we are so proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in Wirral have been receiving their GCSE grades this morning. However the GCSE pass rate has fallen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115068835390952365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}