Normally this article contains a breakdown of the yearly results of GCSE students at Hampstead, critiquing what the school has said about them, as well as some comment about the -year-trend being 5-years-dead. However, because the school's media machine has kindly glossed over the GCSE results this year, and the Ham and High seems to be roundly ignoring the school, we have little to go on.
In usual Hampstead fashion, their press release on the subject stated that "students and staff at Hampstead School are now celebrating a very strong set of GCSE results" directly before saying that "[t]his year’s GCSE statistics are not comparable to any previous years’ results", so how they are making the claim that they are strong beyond the individual results themselves is unknown. What are also unknown are the actual results themselves. Not that anyone really cares about anything other than their own results, but we only have the school's ever-biased word to know that they are 'strong'.
The only information given over was to single out some poor students to be paraded around with their good grades (well done by the way, despite the Walrus using you as camera-fodder) and a statement that "In Mathematics and English respectively, provisional results indicate 70% and 75% achieved the new pass of Grade 4". Not only are these well within the national averages for the subjects, they are a natural progression from last year's results. But, of course, they "are not comparable".
The latest results either reflect a resilience in the students to achieve despite a national government and a school hell-bent on making their lives as hard as possible, or it is a sad indictment that more and more students are simply becoming exam machines during their school careers, rather than actually learning things.
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