100% A Level Pass Rate Achieved at Fulham's Lady Margaret School

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Girls set to 'step out with confidence' after gaining outstanding results

70% of those grades were A*-B - a 2% rise on last year's results. There was also a 2% improvement over 2016 when it came to the very top scores, with 36% being either A or A*.

A delighted Xara Zabihi Dutton, pictured left, one of the head girls at Lady Margaret, achieved an A* grade in English Lit, plus As in History and Religious Studies, guaranteeing her offered place studying English Literature at University College London. She joins 35,000 students at the buzzy central London uni, studying English Literature.

Xara's pal Saskia Gangadin Guinness, from Putney, pictured right, achieved equal success with an A* in History, A in English and A in Philosophy. Saskia, who was a house captain at the school, is now off to Sussex University to study Philosophy.

Other high flyers included Mariel Gane from Shepherd's Bush who was among eight of 15 students taking Art at A Level to gain A* grades. Mariel transferred to Lady Margaret's sixth form having taken GCSEs at Sacred Heart in Hammersmith Road. Lady Margaret has a large external sixth-form intake each year, with more than half the students sharing the experience of joining at A level.

Now, Mariel's A* in fine art, A* in art textiles and B in maths have paved the way to a one year art foundation course at Oxford Brookes, before she decides on a speciality.

Sarah Riches is heading further afield after achieving straight As in Biology, Maths and History, with a place guaranteed at Edinburgh University, where she will study Economic History.

Headteacher Elizabeth Stevenson was among the girls gathering at the school to receive results, dispensing huts, congratulations, hugs and advice for the future.

"In a year when many were sitting 'new' A levels we are particularly proud of the achievements," she said. "School is about helping the girls to step out with confidence, despite all the things that are happening in the world.

"With these girls going out into the world, there really is hope!"

 

August 22, 2017