Congratulations to our students and staff for today’s extremely pleasing GCSE results which we are confident accurately reflect the very high academic standards achieved by our students this year and which promise a large and very bright intake to our Sixth Form. I am delighted the government decided to trust teachers’ professional judgment at GCSE and acted to prevent the punitive and inexplicable downgrades to random students which caused such unnecessary heartache last week for some A Level candidates. We can now get on with the business of finishing our preparations to re-open to all students in a couple of weeks without the distraction of another national furore about results, which I’m sure will be welcome news to parents and students looking forward to returning to school.