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Jubilant Haverstock students celebrate on the steps of the school |
Success in anyone’s language!
IT was smiles galore in Camden schools on
Thursday as students collected their GCSE results and said tearful goodbyes to secondary education.
At La Sainte Union school in Highgate Road,
Parliament Hill Fields, students queued to
receive their grades along with stylishly bound year- books, celebrating their time at the Catholic all- girls school.
Among the happy faces was 16year old Rebecca Goodall, who passed 10 GCSEs. She was gearing up for a celebration before preparing to go on to the joint sixth form college La Swap. She said: “I am so pleased to have got them. I was so nervous before collecting them, and I was worried what my parents would think.” Rebecca now plans to study English literature, music and digital arts at A-level.
Rebecca Murray had an unusual trick up her sleeve to help her through her music GCSE. She is a violinist and is also accomplished on the flute, but can also play the tin whistle. She said: “They said they had never seen that in an exam before. I played them an Irish reel it was a nice piece of music.”
Meanwhile over at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, it was hugs and high-fives all-round
as pupils particularly students who have only recently moved to the UK surpassed expectations.
Zahra Akinpeju, from Queen’s Crescent, scored seven A*s and four As, and plans to study eco- nomics and management at university. Zahra, who joined school little more that two years ago from Nigeria, said: “I really want to help out the econ- omy, but hopefully do a teaching course later on.” Mohamed Ali Gadid, who moved to King’s Cross from Somalia two years ago with very little English, walked away with seven and a half A-C grades. “I’m really happy.
In Somalia we never had the chance to choose a subject here we have the freedom.”
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