ALMOST one in seven sixth-form students at the Abbey School will be starting studies at an Oxbridge university this autumn after achieving some impressive exam results this summer, in both A-levels and the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma.
The Reading-based school said that in its A-level results, overall, a third of students had a clean sweep of A*-As grades, while more than half of all entries were A*-A grades.
A-level students are going on to study subjects including music, modern and medieval languages, criminology, cyber and computer security, law with German and German law, French and German linguistic studies, biochemistry, veterinary science, medicine, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, and mechatronics and robotics.
One student is going to study nuclear engineering on submarines as part of a British Navy Degree Apprenticeship.
The Abbey said that its A-level results come after impressive results were achieved by fellow Sixth Formers undertaking the IB diploma earlier this year – in July, half of the girls scored 40 points or more, out of a maximum 45 points, placing them in the top 7% of all students studying the IB worldwide.
In a statement, The Abbey’s headteacher Rachel Dent said: “I am incredibly proud of all that our students have achieved.
“As a school, we continue to be academically ambitious for all our students and once again these results are testament to our outstanding teaching throughout the School.
“It’s not just in academia where they excel. We have seen great achievements from our Sixth Formers across a breadth of activities; from music, performing, sport, outdoor adventure, debating and community involvement, students have taken every opportunity available to them and shown life is for living.
“One of the things The Abbey prides itself on is instilling students with a real love of learning and I’m delighted to see them carrying on their educational journeys to university or undertaking voluntary work or travel as part of a gap year.”
An earlier version implied that all students going on to further studies at university were doing so from the A-level grades. The Abbey School has asked us to make clear that their further education places were obtained after studying for the IB and A-levels. We apologise for this confusion.
