Lady Margaret Students Celebrate 'Phenomenal' A Level Results

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With 68% achieving A* - B grades - one per cent up on last year

Overall, 68% were A*-B grades (one per cent up on last year), 34% either A* or A, and 100% were A*-E.

These dazzling results have delighted new head teacher Elisabeth Stevenson, a year into her job.

" They’re a great group of girls, and they help each other,” she said. "They work as a team, and they’re supportive in their friendships. There is a real togetherness among the girls who have been here since Year 7 and those who joined in the sixth form.

" The 68% figure is phenomenal, but today is really about the people and the emotions. It’s all about the individuals, and this is a great springboard for them."

India Parker, 18, is heading to Oxford to study English and linguistics at Somerville College.

She achieved straight As in French, Spanish and English literature, although she was relieved about the English mark.

Of the linguistics subject, she said: "It’s mostly done in English, but it’s the study of the science of language.”

And looking to her future career, she said: “I’ll maybe end up doing law, or being a diplomat."

Fatin Abdall said she kept rechecking her results. “I’ve got an A*, an A and a C in English, history and psychology; and I honestly don’t know how I did that!”

She has a place at Soas, the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University, to study history and international relations. "History is just my all-time favourite subject,” she said. " It’s so interesting, and Middle Eastern studies at Soas really interests me."

Other high flyers include Cinnamon Mading Morggenegg, whois off to study medicine at Glasgow University; Eliza Waskett, whose three A* grades guarantee her a place studying biological sciences at Edinburgh; Sophie McElderry, who will be studying modern and medieval languages at Cambridge and Nada Darbani, off to Royal Holloway to study economics

Jemima Clifford, who achieved an A* in maths, A in physics and A in further maths is now planning to study for a degree in civil engineering at Bristol in September.

A, B and B grades in religious studies, psychology and sociology are taking Julia Stammers to Nottingham Trent to study psychology. "I love psychology; it’s fascinating and I want to use it to help people,” she said. "But to help them, you have to understand them."

"Our Year 13 students worked incredibly hard last year, and these results are a testament to their commitment to their studies, and to the hard work of our staff," added the head. "We wish everyone well as they begin a new stage of their education."

August 25, 2016