Reflections on GCSE Results Day
Last Thursday was my first GCSE results day. This feels rather bizarre 3 years into teaching across 2 different schools with various different roles under my belt but there it is. The picture across the country is broadly what everyone expected, results are down on the whole from last year but up significantly since 2019. Not a big suprise considering these are the first "proper" exams since the pandemic but with students suplied with advanced information. My academy feels reasonably happy on the day, obviously not all subjects have done as well as others and no one has been unable to unseat our superb English department which for years has dominated with high quality teaching and very strong grades. The maths team, of which I am a part, is very happy. These are our best results ever and our average grade actually did not go down from 2021, and in other measures we improved. I teach a top set and am delighted that some students who were not predicted 9s have got them and that...