The Headmaster of one of England’s oldest schools today warmly praised the hard work and resilience of pupils on the day they received their A Level results.
 
Kieran McLaughlin, Headmaster of the 608-year-old Durham School, said that all A Level students should be proud of their achievements after the end of their GCSEs and most of their Sixth Form time was heavily disrupted by the Covid pandemic.
 
Coveted A*-A grades made up nearly half (48.8%) of all results for pupils at Durham School this year; 73.5% of results were A*-B.
 
The successful results will see 70% of pupils going to university achieving their first-choice destination. Of these, 85% will go to Russell Group universities.
 
Mr McLaughlin said: “It has been a torrid two years educationally for this cohort of students. I am incredibly proud of the resilience they showed working through such disruption to their studies due to the pandemic.
 
“They are the year group that sat A Levels having not faced previous external examination and their gritty determination to do their best has carried them through.”
 
Durham School, along with Chorister School, is part of the Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation (DCSF) which educates children ages three to 18.