Despite national news in relation to the high level of challenge in this year’s SATs papers, Selwood Academy are celebrating record breaking results, further building on their huge successes in recent years. As a year group there were a number of huge successes, with a record breaking number of pupils achieving the expected standard across Reading, Writing and Maths, placing them as the highest performing 5-8 middle school in the county and one of the highest in the Southwest. In Maths a record 82% of pupils achieved the expected standard, up 5% on last year’s highest results ever and substantially above the national average. Maths also saw record breaking result for those working at Greater depth standard. Writing results were exceptional and the highest in the school’s history with 86% of pupils achieving the expected standard, once again this is well above the national average. Another notable performance was that nearly a third of pupils in both writing and Reading achieved greater depth standard, once again exceeding national averages. Furthermore a whopping 93% of pupils achieved the expected standard in Science, once again the highest in the school’s history and dramatically above the national average.
There were a number of huge in dividual results who overcame challenge and performed notably well. This included William D, Maxmillian F-J, Seb H, Eva H, Alexa J, Zak J, Arun K, Rosalie M, Xane R-P, Tommy S, Errol S and Noah W (pictured) all of whom achieved the combined greater depth standard across the key areas.
Head teacher of the oversubscribed school Dan Jeffries noted “these results are a testament to the incredible efforts of our staff, pupils and the entire community, they have truly let their light shine and I couldn’t be more proud of them. We know our pupils put everything they had into these assessments and therefore deserve to be full of pride, and most importantly that they absolutely did the best for them. These results reaffirm our reputation for exceptional Academic performance. We had so many exceptional performances and there are many individual stories in these results of pupils who overcame personal challenge! We know that the care, support and nurture that we have given our pupils has really prepared them to face this challenge” He then continued “these results wrap up another incredible year at the Academy; from the incredible trips the children have undertaken, our sell out production of Matilda at the Merlin, our block buster summer concert or well as our incredibly popular taster days which saw over 280 year 3 pupils experience a day at Selwood. I am so proud of the children and the whole community and I am full of hope and excitement as I know next year will provide even more opportunities for our pupils to flourish!”