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STUDENTS and staff at Bracknell and Wokingham College enjoyed a fantastic set of GCSE results on Thursday, August 25.
Over 96 percent of students sitting maths or English achieved a pass.
Many of the Activate Learning college’s candidates are resitting their exams to continue in education or progress their career.
This includes mature students requiring GCSEs for jobs and university.
Around a quarter of pupils who have taken an exam for English or maths at Bracknell and Wokingham College have improved the grades they previously obtained.
Anne-Marie Benson, received a grade 7 in English and 4 in maths, having returned to education after a long battle with bowel cancer.
Her fight inspired her to become a nurse as she studied an access to higher education nursing and midwifery diploma, achieving nine distinctions and one merit.
Of her results, he said: “I can’t believe it! I’m just in so much shock. I never thought that I’d be able to do this, but I have!
“It was brilliant studying here at college, I’ve enjoyed it so much that I’ve encouraged my daughter to study a T Level in Health here in September instead of staying on at
sixth form at school.
“It was scary returning to education as an adult, but also very exciting. The college and teachers have all been really supportive.”
Both Anne-Marie and her daughter Daisy are dyslexic, but pulled together to revised their GCSE subjects together.
In September, she will go on to study adult nursing at the University of West London.
Cheri Ashby, deputy chief executive of Activate Learning, said: “GCSE results day is such a special time for us at Activate Learning as often we see our students overcoming the barriers they have encountered in their studies previously, to improve their grades and succeed where perhaps they thought they would not.
“Once again, this year I am delighted to see so many students improving on what they have previously achieved, and to do so in the first public exams for two years – and for many of them their first since they were in Year 6 – is a real achievement.
“I would like to also express my thanks and appreciation to all our staff who have worked tirelessly over the past year to ensure our students achieve their qualifications.
Bracknell and Wokingham College offers part-time GCSEs in English and maths.
The college also offers two full-time GCSE pathways, the humanities pathway consists of English, maths, history, sociology and media.
The science pathway consists of biology, chemistry, English, maths and physics.
