WITHINGTON Girls’ School’s GCSE students were yesterday celebrating an exceptional set of examination results.

Following on from last week’s outstanding A Level results, the 77 Year 11 pupils passed all papers taken, with 67 per cent of all entries achieving the highest grade of A* and over 92 per cent of all entries graded A* or A.

No fewer than 52 girls passed all their GCSEs with either A* or A grades, and 45 girls earned seven or more A* grades.

Twelve girls swept the board with straight A* grades in all their subjects.

In many subjects, A* was the average grade achieved, including Mathematics (86% of entries), Biology (82%), Further Mathematics (82%), Chemistry (79%) and Physics (72%).

In Further Mathematics a third of the 45 entries were awarded the even higher accolade of an A* grade 'with Distinction'.

One pupil Deeya Kotecha, from Timperley, achieved an exceptional 100 per cent in Further Mathematics, one of only eight students in the entire country to do so.

Every Withington girl also achieved at least one GCSE in a modern foreign language, with the majority being awarded an A* or A grade: French (97%), Spanish (78%), German (71%).

The majority of pupils also chose to study at least one humanities subject, where standards were equally high with 97% A* or A grades being achieved in Geography and 83% in History.

In addition, 74 girls achieved a qualification in ICT to which the government has given the equivalence of a further GCSE.

94 per cent of the year group passed the OCR Level 2 National Award in ICT with Distinction – the highest grade.

Headteacher, Sue Marks, praised the girls for their hard work and motivation, which had helped to produce these outstanding achievements.

“We are absolutely delighted for our girls”, she said.

“These splendid results reflect their own hard work, the support of their families and the high quality teaching and pastoral care they have received at Withington.”

The GCSE Results for Withington Girls' School 2014 are as follows:

N Abrahams 12(12), A Adil 10(10), A Bate 11(11), S Beardsworth 11(11), K Bodha 13(13), M Callery 10(10), K Chaudhry 9.5(9.5), H Clark 11(11), I Clarke 10(10), G Conlan 11(11), P Cormack 11(11), E Corner 10(10), O Coyne 12(12), T Critchley 11(11), A Dean 13(13), N Denheim 11(11), M Dodd 10(10), I Dudley 11(11), N Edmonds 10(10), F Fagan-Bird 9(9), B Fanning 9.5(9.5), C Farrow 9.5(9.5), L Fitzgerald 11(11), A Gandee 12(12), E Gawley 13(13), E Gibbons 10(10), M Gold 10(10), L Goldstone 10(10), H Gorlizki 10(10), S Greenfield 10(10), M Greibach 10(10), F Halliwell 10(10), O Harman 10(10), K Harris 11(11), V Henfrey 11(11).

D Johnston 13(13), R Jusab 11(11), Z Karim 11(11), R Khattar 11(11), A Khurshid Akhtar 10(10), D Kotecha 11(11), C Lee 11(11), F Li 11(11), A Liu 12(12), F Lugo 10(10), G Maydanchi 10(10), J McCarthy 11(11), H Morton-Grant 11(11), E Muir 11(11), A Munir 10(10), H Ng 12(12), C Norbury 10(10), B Parker 11(11), E Pennington 12(12), M Perry 12(12), A Phillips 10(10), J Pollick 10(10), T Pollick 11(11), S Randev 11(11), J Rea 12(12), J-A Rochford 11(11), S Ruia 11(11), R Saggar 11(11), R Saleem 11(11), S Salim 12(12), P Slattery 11(11), V Surange 10(10), N Syal 11(11), L Tamin 10(10), A Tankel 11(11), C Vell 12(12), M Watkins 11(11), F Whyte 13(13), I Whyte 12(12), E Willan 11(11), L Woodhead 12(12), A Yaffe 10(10).