A level results at Forest School, 2018
Forest School in Snaresbrook, London, celebrates another year of success on A level results day with 50% of all grades awarded to Forest School students an A or A*. The overall number of A* grades is up more than 5% on last year, with Forest School students achieving the highest number of A* grades since 2011. Amongst those achieving the most impressive results are students who have achieved A*s in a wide range of subjects including English Literature, Drama, Politics, History, Mathematics and Further Mathematics.
82% of Forest students secured a place at their chosen university, which is an increase on last year, and in September 10 Forest students will begin courses at Oxford and Cambridge and highly competitive Medical courses at top institutions.
Grace Oswald has already started at UC Berkley in the United States having gained A* A* A* A* in her A levels, and Zoe Kundu has gained a place at the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University – the most highly regarded and most competitive course in the country – making it the seventh year in a row for a Forest pupil to have won a scholarship to a conservatoire.
In addition to a minimum of 3 A Levels, all Year 12 students at Forest School take the Extended Project Qualification as part of Forest’s unique Sixth Form Diploma offering. This year’s cohort have achieved another set of stellar results with 78% of Forest Year 12’s awarded at least an A grade.
On this year’s A level results, the Warden of Forest School, Marcus Cliff Hodges, had this to say:
“Our continued focus on developing the best learning characteristics in our pupils is paying off once again, with Forest students achieving outstanding results whilst balancing their studies by engaging fully with everything on offer at Forest outside the classroom.”
Head of Sixth Form Kate Spencer Ellis:
“I’m immensely proud of the depth and breadth of work that Forest’s Sixth Form have done in order to get to today. Students leave Forest well qualified, grounded and passionate about making a positive impact on the world around them. These excellent A level results will no-doubt help them to achieve their ambitions.”
Deputy Head Academic Tahmer Mahmoud:
“These fabulous results show just how much progress our Year 13 leavers have made over the last two years. They’ve grown as thinkers, planners and doers, and today is about acknowledging how far they’ve come in their personal journeys.”
Of particular note were the following students:
Adem Aktas – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Medicine at KCL
Naphysa Awuah – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Philosophy at St Andrew’s
Laurie Bayley-Higgins – A*AA – Drama and English Literature at Manchester
Felix Bennemann – A*A*AAA (and an A in EPQ) – Physics with Nano Science
Kiran Bhoarla – A*A*A – Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Nottingham
Caitlin Black – A*A*A (and an A* in EPQ) – Geography at Durham
Hannah Cantekin – A*A*A (and an A in EPQ) – Economics and Politics at Bristol, following a gap year
Jesse Chan – A*A*A* (and an A* in EPQ) – Geography at KCL
Mollie Chan – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Biomedical Sciences at York
Benedict Chisolm – A*A*A (and an A in EPQ) – Politics and International Relations, with study abroad at Bristol
Elizabeth Finlay – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Flexible combined honours with study abroad at Exeter
Rhiannon Francis-Clarke – A*A*A* (and an A* in EPQ) – Economics at Leeds
Anna Glenn – A*AA – General Engineering at Durham
Usayd Hasan – A*A*A*A* (and an A* in EPQ) – Mathematics at Downing College, Cambridge
Gwen Jones – A*A*A* (and an A* in EPQ) – Politics and International Relations, with study abroad at Bristol
Rohit Joshi – A*A*A*A (and an A* in EPQ) – Computer Science at Warwick
Muhammad-Ameen Kidiya – A*A*A (and an A in EPQ) – Medicine at QMUL
Alexander Kingsley – A*AAA
Guhesh Kumaran – A*A*A*A* (and an A in EPQ) – Physics at Imperial
Emily Lawrence – A*A*A* – English and Theatre Studies at Warwick
Douglas Leung – A*A*A* (and an A*in EPQ) – Classics at Durham
Zarin Mahmud – A*A*A* (and an A* in EPQ) – International Relations and Social Anthropology at SOAS
Harry Marway – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Economics at Nottingham
David Olulode – A*AA – Economics and International Economics at Nottingham
Grace Oswald – A*A*A*A (and an A* in EPQ) – Liberal Arts at UC Berkeley
Jason Ozuzu – A*AA – Computer Systems Engineering at Manchester
Grace Palfreman – A*A*A (and an A* in EPQ) – Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge
Farah Patel – A*A*A* – Medicine at Manchester
Conor Reynolds – A*A*A*A – Mathematics
Alice Turney – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – History at Bristol
James Wakefield – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Mechanical Engineering at Cardiff
Rohin Wong – A*AA (and an A* in EPQ) – Medicine at KCL