Published: Saturday, 4th October, 2008 09:00
Pupils power into top 10
By Annabel Williams
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Bright young things: clockwise from top left - Betsy Mayne, Ellie Green, Pippa Whittaker, Olivia Sandy, Chris Young, Alina Gerasimenko, Katie Truslove, Maija-lisa Han and Kate Boddington. (084747b)
Pic by: Taline Jones.
NOT content with being top of the class, this bright bunch has discovered they are among the best in the country.
The youngsters, all students at Kendrick School in Reading, have found out that their GCSE and AS-level exam scores are in the top 10 nationally.
It is the first time the grammar school has had so many high achievers in one year, with 19 youngsters, including A-level students who have now left for university, all taking courses with the country’s largest exam board, Edexcel.
Last year’s GCSE crop was an especially artistic bunch with Alice Brown, Laura Elliott, Anastasia Olarou, Shawnee Vale and Chris Young making up half the top 10 table out of 36,294 entries.
Katherine Truslove and Olivia Sandy did well out of 19,484 German candidates.
Poppy Ilderton and Zoe Roberts were both inside the top 10 in GCSE PE out of 69,708 candidates, and Alina Gerasimenko proved her knowledge of Russian was among the best of 1,922.
Top 10 at AS-level were Kate Boddington and Phillippa Whittaker both doing art and design out of 6,290 candidates, Maija-Lisa Han out of 7,870 studying biology, Elisabeth Mayne out of 7,387 physics entries and Eleanor Green out of 5,919 RE students.
Among the top 10 at A-level were Sarah Vigars out of 5,130 art and design candidates, Nicola Cogdell out of 3,985 geography entries, Iwona Luszowicz among 2,931 German students, and Susie Yates did the double in further maths out of 3,656 entries and in physics out of 5,988 candidates.
Sarah has now started a foundation year at University College in Falmouth, Nicola is reading medicine at Birmingham, Iwona Luszowicz is studying classics at Oxford and Susie has gone to Cambridge to read maths.
Headteacher Marsha Elms said she was “absolutely delighted” at the girls’ achievements.
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