Hard Work Pays Off for Tollbar Students
August 19th, 2008
Students
at Tollbar Business and Enterprise
College celebrated
another round of successful A-level results this year.
Some 73 per cent of students achieved grades A to C with a huge 78 per cent of
maths students gaining grade As.
In addition, 100 per cent of further maths pupils took home A to C grades.
Economics students also came top of the table, with 75 per cent
scoring A to B grades.
In business studies, 17 out of the 23 students walked away with A to B grades,
and in English 86 per cent of pupils achieved the top three marks.
Tollbar BEC principal David Hampson said he was very pleased with the results,
as many students had performed better than anticipated.
He said: "These results are a fantastic achievement and represent the hard
work and determination of the staff and students at Tollbar BEC.
"There are some exceptional individual achievements and we are
particularly proud of our highest scoring student, Tom Love, who achieved three
grade A passes and one grade C. He will hopefully achieve his ambition to study
aerospace engineering."
Tom (18), of Chadwell Springs, Waltham, got top marks in maths, physics and
economics and a C in further maths, and now hopes to take up his chosen course
at the University of Bath.
On the subject of his success, he said: "It feels nice, but it's not about
being the highest achiever, it's about getting to do the course I wanted.
"I was really relieved when I opened my results and happy that I had got
on to the course I wanted, but a bit surprised as well.
"It's been tough, but I've got a lot of happy memories from the last two
years."
Director of sixth form Andy Clark said: "This really is my favourite day
of the year and the feeling I feel the most is one of pride in what the
students have achieved.
"A number of the students have received remarkable results, and in some
cases under difficult personal circumstances, but they've really pulled through
and battled on.
Grimsby Telegraph
Friday 15 August 2008
