It has been excellent that our Year 11 pupils at King's Bruton have achieved such impressive GCSE grades, to support our best-ever A Level and BTec grades last week.

47.7% of GCSE grades were awarded grades 9-7 (A*/A), which is the highest percentage of top grades ever awarded at King's, apart from the CAG year of 2020, while 93.1% of GCSE grades were awarded grades 9-4 (A*-C), which is also the highest ever at King's, outside the CAGs and TAGs of the past two years. We have again, gone against the national trend of the expected fall in top grades from those awarded in 2021, as our grades have gone up and are above those seen before the pandemic. Ten pupils deserve special mention for their excellent grades:

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Harry  9999999888

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Georgia  9999888887

Skyla  9999998887

Jenna  9999888887

Eleanor  9999888888

Anouska  999999877

Lucas 9999998776

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My thanks go to the Heads of Department and all subject teachers for all their hard work and professionalism over the past three years, which ensured that all King's Bruton pupils received an outstanding education, regardless of the impact of the pandemic, and prepared them so well for their external exams. The girls and boys deserve great credit for the resilience they have shown to achieve such impressive grades across the board.

Floreat Brutonia!

Ian Wilmshurst - Headmaster