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8:58am Thursday 26th August 2010 in


The waiting was over for GCSE students as the white envelopes were handed out on Tuesday morning.

It was a record-breaking year nationally with 61.9 per cent of pupils awarded a grade C or above, and for some Basingstoke schools, pupils achieved well above the national average.

Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School in South Ham, came out on top with 76 per cent of students reaching the benchmark five GCSEs from A* to C including maths and English.

In Hampshire, 60 per cent of pupils achieved five or more A* to C grades, including English and maths - an increase of four per cent on last year.

Councillor Ken Thornber, leader of Hampshire County Council said: “Congratulations to Hampshire pupils for their achievement and to our schools and teachers. These results reflect the hard work of staff and pupils.

“There is a good deal of emphasis on GCSEs but pupils take a range of other courses and qualifications and all of them are to be congratulated for their efforts.”

Six of the 12 state secondary schools in The Gazette area achieved higher than the county average.

But for those pupils who failed to make the grade, Hampshire Connexions personal advisers are working with schools and colleges to offer support and guidance to young people about further education, training or employment.

More information can be found at youthtube.hants.gov.uk or by calling 0845 6035621.

Comments(11)

basingstoketown says...
10:30am Thu 26 Aug 10

I am sick to the back teeth of people saying the exams have been 'dumbed' down. My son has just completed his GCSE's and I saw how much work he had to put into it. It is very competitive out there and with the current economic situation going straight to work is not an option for many.
My son received either A* or A in 6 of his subjects (4 B and 1 C) in the others - please tell him that things are getting easier.
Lay off the children and give them some encouragement for working hard. Would you rather that - or they roam the streets looking to cause trouble?

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basingstoketown says...
3:41pm Thu 26 Aug 10

Will the Labour clique consider closing the failing debacle called 'Everest Community College'. This sham should never have been rebuilt - what a waste of taxpayer funds!
'...only 16% managed to achieve 5 GCSE's at grades A-C' - what an indictment that is for a school that has had so many resources and so much promotion.
There is only one word to describe the school - FAILURE. The only way for this school to turn around is for the area to aspire to better than the Labour clap trap and handout mentality. If the area does not aspire to higher things then it deserves to crash and burn.
Maybe if they hadn't rebuilt Everest they would have had funds to save Chineham Park School - but oh yes the go ahead for closing this school was given by - a Labour Secretary of State - remember that Popley Labour!!

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basingstoketown says...
4:44pm Thu 26 Aug 10

Here are some VERY interesting stats:

5 A* - C results inc Maths and English for the Old John Hunt School:

2004 - 8%
2005 - 5%
2006 - 19%
2007 - 19%

Now the figures for the New Everest College:

2008 - 25%
2009 - 30%
2010 - 16%

Stop making excuses Julie Rose look at the results for the old John Hunt with your results. Considering you have a new state of the art school and significantly more resources there is not much difference. A total waste of time and money building the new school. The only things the pupils of Everest are studying are how to become single mothers and get free houses, how to become drug dealers, gangsters or benefit b*mmers.
Let us hope Cllr Jane Frankum and the Popley Posse do not have this post removed so that the taxpayers of Basingstoke can see how their funds are being misused by Basingstoke/Popley Labour.

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Save_our_Gazette says...
5:53pm Thu 26 Aug 10

Honestly what drivel from "basingstoketown". Does he know anything about education? Local councillors do not run the schools, teachers do, and they are accountable to governors. I am sick and tired of all these rantings about Labour and Popley councillors: I know these people, they do an excellent job. If you're concerned about standards in Basingstoke schools, ask yourself what you can do to help make a difference, instead of pointing the finger, and if you can't do that, get off this web site, you're annoying the ordinary readers with your puerile, ill-informed, and in some cases untrue and deceitful comments.

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Flashback says...
6:11pm Thu 26 Aug 10

My understanding (from the Gazette) is that it was Hampshire County Council that closed the school and not the "Labour secretary of state", despite a parents' protest that ended up on TV. Let's remember the true history, eh? Oh and by the way, I enjoy the local history articles in the Gazette: more please!

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basingstoketown says...
7:57pm Thu 26 Aug 10

All please read:

1) ''Hampshire County Council’s Cabinet members followed officers’ recommendations this week and voted for closure after considering final objections to the plan.

The meeting was told that the Government was threatening to close the school in Shakespeare Road, Popley, if councillors kept it open''

That was taken from an article in this paper dated - 4 April 2010.

There was another article in this paper stating that the recommendation for closure came from the department of the Secretary of State for Education - I will post that when I have found the extract. By the way - how long was Andy McCormick a governor at Chineham Park School?

2) The figures for Everest Community College came from Hantsweb - which is the official Hampshire County Council website.

3) Putting People First IS a government fund set up to help disabled and vulnerable people - please look into this if you like.

So rather than being some kind of imbecile and ill informed I think certain people are trying to muddy the waters.
As I have said before - truth hurts.

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cllr Andrew McCormick says...
3:26pm Sun 29 Aug 10

I'd like to congratulate all those leaving school on their good results. The 16% fugure from Everest is cause for concern and I will be speaking to people about it. But of greater concern still is the jobs prospects of school leavers and the increased shortage of university places, something which won't be helped by budget cuts.

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cllr Andrew McCormick says...
3:34pm Sun 29 Aug 10

basingstoketown is being mischievous at best with his comments. The reality is that Hampshire County Council consulted on closure of Chineham Park in Sept 2009. An interim Ofsted inspection in Dec 09 showed insufficient improvement, this prompted a statutory letter from the DFES asking HCC what it's plans were for Chineham Park, if HCC didn't have an adequate explanation, then the DFES might serve HCC with a direction to close. HCC's response was that the school was closing anyway. The reason for closure cited by HCC was low numbers on roll, something that was bound to change with the new build in Popley - already some neighbouring schools are projected to be full this academic year.

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PopleyRebel says...
6:10pm Mon 30 Aug 10

Everest College is sham, the head teacher (Ms Rose) was and still is out of her depth and therefore the school, students and Popley have suffered. Inquiries were made through our MP Maria Miller in March in to the course introduced by Ms Rose.
The course, Ms Rose claims was under the Foundation Learning Tier, however, the (FLT) is designed to support and encourage students, sadly however the course at Everest took students out of education and as a consequence many in their GCSE year missed a full term, they were given straight “Ds” in Maths English and science. Furthermore, they were rewarded with trips out, paint- balling, go- carting, ski-slopping, driving lessons and day out Thorpe Park.
A formal complaint has been lodged; the complaint is based on two fronts, The Course and Ms Rose evading all questions and inquiries in to the course.
Needles to say the board of governors who should have all the answers have sat on the formal complaint even though they have a strict time table laid down in the school procedure.

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PopleyRebel says...
7:14pm Mon 30 Aug 10

The course introduced by Ms Rose was not supported by the (FLT) as their criterion is clearly based on encouragement in schools and therefore, better prospect in GCSE exams.
Furthermore, the Everest Course was based on students only attending school for an hour a day, 4 days a week, on completion of the course students were guaranteed straight “Ds” in maths English and Science.
Is been said that Ms Rose anticipated bad results and the last of the old John Hunt Students passing through the system was the reason,however, what she clearly forgot to remind people is that the school under her leadership had those students for 3 years.
With the support of the (FLT) foundation learning tier.???????

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12:45pm Wed 1 Sep 10

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