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FARNBOROUGH HILL BUCKS NATIONAL TREND IN SCIENCES

Farnborough Hill aspires to academic excellence and to giving pupils a sense of fun and enjoyment in their learning. Evidence of the success of this strategy was seen in the GCSE results for Year 10 candidates in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. All the Year 10 students sat three written unit examination papers in June. Eleven girls scored maximum points (100) on all three papers, while 40% of the year group scored the maximum 100 on at least one unit. Mrs Susan Macey, Head of Science, commented ‘the students really enjoy the science subjects and they worked very hard to achieve this excellent set of results’.

Farnborough Hill girls are challenging recent reports that students are opting to study easier subjects and moving away from rigorous subjects such as the three sciences and languages. Students at the school study all three sciences to GCSE level and the sciences remain a popular choice at A level, leading the girls to study medicine, dentistry and veterinary science as well as natural sciences at university. In fact more than half the current Sixth Form are studying at least one science or mathematics for A level.

Further proof of the school’s success in the sciences came with Hannah Shelley and Vinaya Srirangam Nadhamuni being ranked among the top ten in the country for Biology and Mathematics respectively at AS level.

Picture: Farnborough Hill Year 10 science students jump for joy having achieved maximum marks in their GCSE papers