CHALLNEY HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED WITH THEIR FANTASTIC SET OF GCSE RESULTS
Staff, students and parents at Challney High School for Boys are absolutely delighted with the fantastic set of GCSE results that have just come in. This is the first year since 2019 that students have had to sit exams in the traditional format and they have surpassed, by a significant margin, the excellent outcomes of that year.
The Headteacher, Daniel Connor, said: “This is a really strong set of results across all subjects and I could not be more pleased for our students and their parents. The students and all our staff worked incredibly hard to obtain these exemplary results and they are a testament to everybody’s steadfast commitment and dedication.
All subjects at the school performed very strongly. Photography, which was being examined for the first time on the school’s curriculum, performed particularly well, with every single candidate getting a grade 5 or better and 38% of them getting grades 9-7. Another first-time subject, Politics, also got incredibly good results, with 54% of students achieving the top 3 grades and 94% passing the subject. The English Language and English Literature results were also outstanding, with over 80% of students getting a basic pass and nearly 70% of students getting a strong pass. 43% of students, who took History, got the very top grades between 9 and 7 and an incredible 59% of students, who took RE, got the top 3 grades, with 92% of them achieving a pass or better.”
Mr Connor added, “I could not be more delighted with these results. They are the culmination, not only of extremely hard work, since last September, but also through the very difficult years of Covid and school lockdowns. I would particularly like to thank the governors of the school and CLT staff, for their support in securing these results.“
Some individual students did exceptionally well: Farzanul Chowdhury achieved the top grade 9 in every single one of his 10 subjects. Hakeem Essippu attained the top 3 grades and distinctions in all of his subjects, bar one and Hakeem is a student, who only joined the school from overseas, with very little English, three years ago. Our Deputy Head Boy, Zofeen Khan, achieved the top grade 9 in 6 of his subjects, a grade 8 in 3 of his subjects and a grade 7 in his 10th subject. Zofeen and Armaan Khan have successfully secured scholarships to attend 6th Form at Berkhamsted School. Armaan achieved the top grade 9 in 9 of his 10 subjects, with a grade 8 in the 10th.
Several students, despite having faced very significant medical challenges, through Covid and last year, nevertheless attained superb examination results. Fawad Bukhari, for example, achieved a grade 9 in English Literature, a grade 8 in English Language and many grade 7s and 8s in his other subjects, showing tremendous fortitude. It is important to note that this represents a small proportion of the many, many students who have exceeded their target grades, several of them in the face of adversity, and many of whom have overcome personal difficulties.
Adrian Rogers, the CEO of the Chiltern Learning Trust commented, “It is brilliant to see that Challney High School for Boys, alongside our other CLT schools, have performed so well in this year’s GCSE examinations, despite all the challenges of the previous 3 years.”
