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Hundreds of students across Bexley received their GCSE exam results recently, bringing to an end the anxious period of waiting since they took their examinations early in the summer.
Although results are still awaited from some examination boards, the Council believes that results across the borough slightly improved on 2004, consolidating the improvements of recent years for five *A to C passes.
Among the schools with significant achievements are -
- Hurstmere School - where a staggering 80% of students secured the top grades - up from 53% last year.
- Cleeve Park - where 47% of pupils received the top grades. Up from 41% of pupils last year and follows the school’s involvement in a London-wide collaborative project to improve students’ performance.
- Welling - where 41% or pupils achieved the top grades, up from 36% last year, building on the upward trend of recent years.
All four of the borough’s grammar schools saw more than 95% of their students achieving five or more A* to C grade GCSEs.
“I would like to offer my congratulations to all those students who achieved significant success in their exams,” says Cllr Trevor Perrin, Council Cabinet member for Education & Lifelong Learning. “There are many existing opportunities for young people to add to their skills and I hope that they will all build on their skills and qualifications through undertaking further learning or training.
“Analysing the results in detail across all our schools will take time, but I would like to pay tribute to all the students and staff in the borough’s schools for everything they have achieved together.”
Post-GCSE advice for students is available at www.direct.gov.uk
A volunteer project originally set up to help 11 to 21-year-olds leaving care, young offenders and those at risk of offending and unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, is actively looking for more help.
SOVA (Supporting Others through Voluntary Action), has been established in Bexley since 1996 and now includes all young people in need of support through the challenges they face in their lives. It is now a multi-funded organisation which works with individual young people throughout the whole borough, their parents and also offers group support for young adults.
Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health and Deputy Council Leader, Cllr Donna Briant says: “Young people about to leave care face a variety of issues. By supporting them through this transitional period SOVA volunteers help them gain life and independent living skills. Some of these young people are encouraged to go on to become mentors themselves.”
Based at Slade Green’s Howbury Centre, the SOVA Young People’s Support Project is looking for more volunteers who will receive four days training, ongoing support and supervision. Many volunteer mentors have gone on to develop careers in the youth area following their involvement with the project.
It is also possible to become an ‘appropriate adult’ to support arrested unaccompanied young people through police interview, working with parents, asylum seekers drop-in and youth awareness programmes.
For more information contact Chrissie Wild on 020 8303 7777 ext 3958.
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