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Local students amongst top ten in country

Local students Naho Genko, Miku Tatsuno, Ranko Nakamura and Saki Yokota were amongst the top ten students according to Edexcel, the UK’s largest awarding body.

Naho, Miku, Ranko and Saki sat the Japanese GCSE (writing, listening and reading) exam earlier this summer at The Mount School and the results, issued last month, show that out of 613 candidates, the girls achieved four of the highest overall marks.

Jerry Jarvis, Edexcel’s Managing Director, said: “This is a tremendous achievement and testament to the hard work students put into preparing for their exams. We send our congratulations to Naho, Miku, Ranko and Saki”.

The Head, Mrs. Jackson, explained that the four girls were in Year 9 and so took the GCSE two years early. Five of their classmates also took the Japanese GCSE early, all achieving an A*. Two other year 9 and 10 pupils achieved an A* in GCSE Turkish and an A* for GCSE Spanish. All in all an excellent year for our language department and for the ESOL department who support these girls with their translation into English. This has proven enormously successful in ensuring they achieve top grades in their other GCSE’s and A levels.