Thursday 30 August 2018

Results 2018

As with any year, the Trash would liked to have reported on Hampstead School's GCSE and A-Level results this year, as well as debunking some of the myths and exaggerations that the school invariably puts out, but unfortunately this year we can't.

This year the school has not uploaded any article regarding results, nor have they put out a press release. The only quote from the Head that can be found is one on the Camden website, where he called A-Level Results Day "an exciting day".

For a more in-depth analysis of how well students did, we would normally go to the Ham&High, who tend to publish the results in their paper the day after in a league table of all the schools in the area. However, since the Ham&High have largely ignored Hampstead for the past few years in favour of local private and independent schools, we have yet to find a single figure or piece of copy relating to the school and its results in either last Friday's edition or today's.

Not that school-wide results matter; as long as individual students got the grades they wanted then congratulations are in order. Hopefully this marks the first year in a long time the school stop using students' achievements to justify and market themselves.


P.S - Anyone flicking through today's Camden New Journal may not see a single mention of Hampstead, but they may see a familiar shiny face in the form of onetime-SLT, now Head of Regents High School, the orange revel himself.

2 comments:

  1. Update: Today the Ham&High published a 12-page GCSE Results supplement, but again failed to mention certain (state) schools including Hampstead.

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  2. Further update: Hampstead School was also not mentioned at all in the latest edition of Camden Council's free publicity rag (see Trash passim), despite the school being part of the Camden LEA and seemingly every other school in the borough being mentioned in the two-page spread. To add insult to injury for the school, current council leader Georgia Gould was once a guest of honour at a Hampstead Awards evening when merely a young councillor.

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