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A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2023

Paige FitzsimmonsChichester High School staff and students are delighted to be celebrating a fantastic set of results, with the best exam grades in over a decade.

Our students' hard work and motivation ,together with our incredible sixth form teaching team, should be congratulated for these incredible outcomes.  Our Year 13s are a real credit to CHS and we wish them every success as they prepare for the next chapter in their lives.

In A-Level subjects, an impressive 26% of the cohort achieved A*-A grades, 56.2% achieved A*-B grades and 81.1% gained A*-C grade. In addition to this the applied general courses also excelled, with 90% achieving Distinction*- Distinction grades. 

There were a large number of outstanding personal performances . Our top performers who achieved at least 3 A*- A (or equivalent) are:

Isaac B - University of Sussex to read Physics

Joel C - University of Chichester to read Football Coaching and Performance

Lucie C - Bournemouth University to read Marketing Communications with Digital Media

Dawson D - University of Bath to read Mathematics

Paige F - University of Exeter to read English and Drama 

Hannah G - Royal Veterinary College, University of London to read Veterinary Medicine

Charlotte G - University of Portsmouth to read Modern Languages

Harry G - University of Leeds to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Jessica H - Cardiff University to read Pharmacy 

Clara H - University of Bristol to read English

Kieran J - University of Chichester to read Football Coaching and Performance

Adam P - University of Southampton to read Biomedical Sciences

Scarlett P - University of Surrey to read International Event Management

Ella W - Bournemouth University to read Sport and Exercise Science

It has been a busy morning and we are pleased to see so many of our students achieving their expected places at a wide range of Universities including Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, Southampton, UCL and the Royal Veterinary College. 

Vickie Smith, Head of Sixth Form, commented that, ‘The success of our students A Level and BTEC results reflects the commitment, dedication and sheer hard work that they have put into their time at CHS, both inside and outside the classroom.

As a school we recognise that the last four years have been particularly challenging and has added another level of anxiety for these young adults.  I am amazed and extremely proud of the resilience and perseverance they have shown in such challenging circumstances and would like to thank our parents and carers for their continued support.’

Both the students and staff have worked really hard for these results and we are very pleased that their efforts have been rewarded.

We wish all our students every success and happiness in their future.

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A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2022

Chichester High School students and staff are once again delighted to be celebrating A Level results. The last two years for this group of young people have been unprecedented and, at times, filled with uncertainty. Despite this, our students have approached their studies with a level of determination and resilience that is truly amazing.

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Today we are celebrating each and every one of our students. There are many outstanding personal performances which has meant that 58% of the cohort attained A*-B grades, 78% attained A*-C grades and the cohort had an overall pass rate of 100%, which is higher than the national average.

We are extremely excited to announce that our Sports Academy has seen further success this year with 71% of the cohort attaining D*D*D* (the highest grade possible). These students have successfully gained places to study Sport related subjects at the University of Bath, University of Worcester, Hartpury University and University of Essex.

As a group of young people, the year group have supported each other, worked together and given our school community many years of joy and service. In the last year the students have not only focused on their studies but have been busy being involved in fundraising, Duke of Edinburgh and CCF, as well as supporting across the school from sport to our Mental Health programme.

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The success of our students' A Level results reflects the commitment, dedication and sheer hard work that they have put into their time at CHS, both inside and outside the classroom. It has been a busy morning and we are pleased to see so many of our students achieving their expected places at a wide range of Universities including the University of Southampton, Queen Mary University and University of Liverpool. As always, students and staff have worked really hard for these results and we are very pleased that their efforts have been rewarded.

Our Headteacher Joanne McKeown has said ‘It takes a whole school to prepare students for these exams, and so it is the whole of our school that is extremely proud for all our year 13 pupils today.

We are very proud of each and every one of our students and wish them every success and happiness in their future.’

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - Chichester High School

More pictures can be found here and on the CHS Facebook page.


A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2021

Today we celebrated the remarkable achievements of our outstanding Sixth Form students.

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We could not be more proud of the resilience, and strength of character our A Level and BTEC students have demonstrated this year. Once again, we have achieved a 100% pass rate with some incredible individual achievements:

  • Oliver Smith has successfully and brilliantly secured a place at Oxford to read French and Italian 
     
  • 8 A-Level students achieved top grades across the board;

    Oliver Smith - University of Oxford - French and Beginners' Italian,
    Emily Parker - Imperial College London - Mechanical Engineering,
    Shivam Naik - University of Bath - Aerospace Engineering,
    Jessica Hodgson - University of Sheffield - History,
    Isabelle Tucker - University of Plymouth - Medicine,
    Owen Thomas - University of Exeter - Physics,
    Harriet Reynolds - Lancaster University - Drama, Theatre and Performance,
    Ben Woolnough - University of Bristol - Civil Engineering
     
  • Many of our Sports Academy students secured top Distinction Star BTEC grades with 81.5% going into university to continue their sports studies 
     
  • 61% successfully achieved places at top universities 
     
  • 98% got into their 1st choice of university

A levels 2021 80As Headteacher of Chichester High School, I am immensely proud of the time, care and sheer hard work that these Sixth Form students and their teachers have put into securing this year’s superb outcome. With ever-changing guidance and obstacles caused by COVID, we have never ceased in our aspirations for our young people or stopped ensuring they were challenged and supported to be their very best.

These results ensure our students have a wide range of aspirational pathways to be the engineers, medical professionals, academics, teachers, and change makers of tomorrow.

Our Head of Sixth Form, Ms Smith, has continuously ensured both whilst pupils were in school and learning from home that our pupils have remained part of our Sixth Form community, supported, informed and championed.  

Vickie Smith says, “I cannot express how proud I am of each and every one of our Year 13 students. Their commitment, dedication and work ethic has resulted in outstanding outcomes, which are fully deserved. I would like to thank the teaching and support staff for the care and outstanding provision that they have offered our students during this challenging year and the parents for their ongoing encouragement and support.  It has been an absolute privilege to work with such inspiring individuals, myself and all of the teachers at CHS wish them all the best for the future; we look forward to hearing about their many adventures.”

We wish all our students the very best on their next steps and look forward to hearing about their future successes

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - 
Chichester High School


A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2020

Delighted to see our Year 13 students this morning.

Chichester High School A levels 2020 (12)Today we had the privilege of welcoming our Year 13 students back into school for their long-awaited results. We were aware that not all schools and Colleges were opening for results days, but for us, it was important that we marked the importance of today and ensured we could work with our students and their families.

This cohort of students has demonstrated a level of resilience that is truly amazing. As a group of young people, they have supported each other, worked together, and given our school community many years of joy and service. Throughout their time at CHS these students have taken part in fundraising, Duke of Edinburgh, Debating, CCF, been successful in gaining places on a variety of summer schools and prestigious work placements, as well as supporting across the school from sport to our SEN department.

The results today reflected the hard work and commitment of these students. We wish Ishika Dutta (pictured above) all the best as she prepares to study Engineering at Cambridge University.

Despite the changes surrounding these grades, we are really proud that record numbers of our students are heading off to study at Russell Group Universities, including Kings, UCL and Warwick. Our Sports Academy continues to go from strength to strength with more pupils gaining Distinctions than ever before and taking up places at University to continue their passion for sport.

A truly special year group that will go on to do amazing things.

More photos can be viewed here on the school CHS Facebook page.


A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2019

Chichester High School students and staff are once again delighted to be celebrating A-level results. There were many outstanding personal performances, which has meant that the majority of our students will be able to take up their first choice university. 

There has been an increase of students achieving A*-A grade’s from last year and 72% of students attained A*-C grades with an overall pass rate of 99%, which is higher than the national average.

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Our top performers who achieved at least two A*-A’s across the board are:

Lauren Farndell - University of Leeds to read Chemical and Nuclear Engineering

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Amy Howells - University of Birmingham to read Liberal Arts and Sciences

Harry Tollworthy - University of Nottingham Trent to read Sport and Exercise Science

Olivia Warwick - University of Nottingham to read Chemistry

Emma Watson - University to Plymouth to read History

We are extremely excited to announce that our Sports Academy has seen further success this year with student’s successfully gaining places to study Sport related subjects at various universities including Brighton, Chichester, Nottingham Trent and UCFB – Wembley. Congratulations to all of the students on the course, including Lloyd Coote and Adrian Potocki who have made outstanding progress.

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The success of our students A Levels results reflects the commitment, dedication and sheer hard work that they have put into their time at CHS, both inside and outside the classroom. It has been a busy morning and we are pleased to see so many of our students achieving their expected places at a wide range of Universities including Cardiff, Exeter, Imperial College London, Southampton and Warwick. As always, students and staff have worked really hard for these results and we are very pleased that their efforts have been rewarded. We wish all our students every success and happiness in their future.

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - Chichester High School

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A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2018

Chichester High School staff and students are delighted to be celebrating outstanding results which maintain the high level of performance from last year. There were many outstanding personal performances which has meant that many of our students will be able to take up their first choice university. 

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20% of the large Sixth Form cohort achieved an A*- A grade, students attaining A*- B accounted for 52% of the grades awarded and our A*- C at 81% is 5% higher than the National average.

We are very pleased that Georgina Burgoyne-Morris, having achieved three A*s, will be taking up her place at Cambridge University to read Natural Sciences.

Whilst nationally Art subjects are on the decline we are very pleased to celebrate Thomas Hodgson’s achievement in studying music at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

This year we have also had the opportunity to watch the success of Winter Youth Olympian, Yasmin Cooper, who has been studying hard whilst winning championships in skiing. After successfully gaining 3 Distinction*’s in BTEC Sport and Exercise Science she has successfully secured her place at the University of Bath to read Sport and Exercise Science.

Students and staff have worked really hard for these results and we are very pleased that their efforts have been rewarded.

We wish our students every success and happiness in their future.

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - Chichester High School


A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2017

Chichester High School staff and students are delighted to be celebrating outstanding results which yet another improvement on last year’s grades. There were many outstanding personal performances, which has meant that many of our students will be able to take up their first choice university. 

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A delighted Vickie Smith (Head of Sixth Form) jumps for joy with her students above.

The large Sixth Form cohort had an overall pass rate of 100% which is higher than the national average; 50% of these students achieving being A*- B grade and 79% gaining A*- C grade.

We have one student who has had an offer confirmed at Oxford University:

Eleanor achieved A*A*A A and will be taking up her place at Brasenose College, Oxford University to read Geography.

In addition to these students our top performers who achieved A*- A across the board are:

Jessica - University of York to read Biochemistry

Joss - University of Toronto to read Geography with Economics

Lauren - University of Manchester to read English Literature

Morgan - University of Bristol to read Anthropology

Phillipa - University of Portsmouth to read Creative Writing

Chloe - London School of Economics and Political Science to read Social Anthropology

Ackvile - University of Exeter to read English

Natasha - St Mary’s University to read Acting

Emily - University of East Anglia to read Geography

We are also very proud to have had 17 students awarded unconditional offers this year, including Kieran who received a scholarship. He will read Environmental Science at Aberystwyth University and Hollie who has been awarded a Soccer Scholarship at the University of Kentucky; she plays her first match as a Wildcat on Friday 18th August.

AS results for our Year 12 cohort are similarly very encouraging and promise much success next year.

This has been a very stressful year for A-Level students as this is the first year of the new linear courses and it has meant that predicting achievement was very difficult. So double congratulations to them for working hard, holding their nerve and achieving some of the best results Chichester High School has seen! Thank you to the staff, students, and parents for all their support, hard work and commitment, we wish our students every success and happiness in their future.

You can read the Chichester Observer report here too.

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - Chichester High School

 


A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2016

Staff and students at Chichester High School are delighted to see the excellent performance of last year repeated again this year at A-level.  This means that our students are now able to take up their chosen university courses.

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Students completing their courses this year achieved 44% A*-B pass rate which equals our achievement in 2015.

The overall pass rate is 99% which is above the national average and we are particularly excited in our rise to 71%, of students achieving A*- C grades. We are pleased and proud that 63.8% of our students gained at least one top grade (A*-B) at A2.

We have two students who have offers confirmed at Cambridge University:

Georgia achieved A*A*A*A and has been offered a place at Cambridge University to read Classics at Peterhouse.

Stella achieved A*A*A A and has been offered a place at Cambridge University to read English at Churchill College.

In addition to these students our top performers are:

Lucy, University of Sussex to read English

Ellie, University of Birmingham to read History

Mia, University of Manchester to read Human, Social and Political Sciences

Elizabeth, University of Surrey to read Psychology

Thomas, University Surrey to read Maths and Physics

Chloe, University of Bristol to read History

Matthew, University of Surrey to read Biochemistry  

Charlie, University of Buckinghamshire to read Geography

Kamen, University of Surrey to read Aerospace

Kieran, University of Bath to read Computer Science

Holly, University of Exeter to read Bioscience

Emily, who will be taking a gap year before applying for University.

We are also very proud to have had several students awarded unconditional offers this year. John who will read Classical Civilisation and Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, Oliver who has been awarded a Tennis and Academic scholarship at the University of Emporia in Kansas, America and Emily who won a scholarship for women in engineering to study Chemical Engineering at Edinburgh University.

It has to be said that we are delighted and proud of all of our students. We are pleased that so many of them now have the opportunity to pursue their dreams and wish them every success in the future. Well done to their teachers and well done to them!

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - Chichester High School.


A-Levels Chichester High School Sixth Form - August 2015

Once again students at The Chichester High School Sixth Form have covered themselves in glory. A record number of students have gained a place at university and can now start to prepare themselves for the next exciting step in their careers.

44% of students gained an A*-B grade which is great to see and for the first time for some years we have not one but two students going on take up places at Oxford:

Jolyon achieved A*A*A*A and has been offered a place at Oxford University to read Economics and Management

Joe achieved A*A*A*A and has been offered a place at Oxford University to read Physics

 

In addition to these students our top performers are:

Azrah, University of Southampton to read History

Nishita, University of Bath to read Biomedical Sciences

Zara, St Mary’s University to read Drama and Theatre Studies

Adam, University of Southampton to read Law

Matthew, University of Southampton to read Mathematics with Finance and Investment Banking

Abbie, University College London (UCL) to read Biochemistry

Ellie, University of Reading to read Film and Theatre

Annabel, Bath Spa University to read Creative Writing

Claire, University of Southampton to read Law

We are proud that 62% of our students gained at least one top grade (A*-B) at A2 and 27% of all students gained A-A* grade passes in facilitating subjects, an increase on last year’s attainment.

We are also delighted with Y12 and their AS results which are the High Schools’ best ever achievement. Again, a number of students gained A grades across the board: Georgia, Mia, Chloe, Megan and Stella.

It has to be said though that we are immensely proud of all our students and the excellent progress of our students that was recognised in our recent OfSTED inspection has continued with this year’s results.

Vickie Smith
Head of Sixth Form - Chichester High School