Jumping for Joy at Latymer Upper School

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Staff and pupils celebrate best ever A level results

Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith has achieved its best ever A Level results.

Led by deputy head Andrew Matthews, pictured right, staff and pupils are jumping for joy over a set of outstanding grades - 75% at A*/A and over 31% at A*.

Across the board, over 95% of grades were at A*-B.

17 students were awarded an A* in every subject: nine pupils gained at least 4 A*s and 25 at least 3 A*s.

22 students won places at Oxford and Cambridge and 13 secured places for Medicine or Veterinary Science.

Head David Goodhew says: " I am elated for the Class of 2016, who have worked so hard and achieved our best ever A Level results. They richly deserve their success, and I am sure would join me in thanking my colleagues who did so much to support and inspire them.

" I am especially proud that they have achieved top grades without sacrificing their participation in the wide range of activities that make up a truly rounded education.

"It is no surprise that they have secured their first choice of course at highly competitive universities, and I know they will do great things in the future."

Behind the statistics, the school says there are many individual success stories. Amna Ahmed, Fatima Osman and Rebecca Abdelmalak, pictured below, are celebrating places at Imperial College to study Medicine. All three students joined Latymer on a bursary.

Three talented musicians, Isaac Ettedgui, Max Bennett and Sam Rice, pictured below – who performed as soloists at St John’s Smith Square earlier in the year each playing a movement of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto - are heading to Oxford to study Chemistry, English and Material Sciences respectively.

Fiammetta Fuller Gale who achieved 2 A*s and 2 A grades will go to Cambridge to study Music with a Choral Scholarship, the sixth year in a row a Latymer pupil has won a Choral Scholarship to Oxbridge.  

Friends since primary school, Yasmin Khan Osborne and Nina Anderson both achieved outstanding results and go up to Cambridge together to study Architecture.

Across the pond menwhile, seven Latymerians have accepted places at prestigious North American Universities including Princeton, UPenn and McGill.

August 18, 2016