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22% of Sixth Form examinations were awarded A* and 58% were A* to A. Over 10% secured at least three A* grades or equivalent, of whom Chingis Idrissov, Rebecca Siddall, Kadi Sun, Arthur Thomson, Samuel To and Kimi Xie achieved four A* or equivalent. Over a third of the year group achieved straight As or better. 29% of Pre-U entries achieved D1 and D2 grades, the equivalent of A* at A level. 18 pupils have achieved their offers to go to Oxford or Cambridge.
GCSE results were equally impressive, with 57% of all grades awarded 9, 8 or A* and 40% of the year group awarded the equivalent of all A* and A.
Lara Wise (D 3, pictured above) has been commended in the 2018 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine for her entry, In Quarantine. Her entry will also be published in the 2018 Hippocrates Awards Anthology.
DELF results – diplomas awarded by the French Ministry of Education – were once again extremely
impressive, with Polly Brown (K 5) achieving 5% better than the previous Oundle record at B1 level and Ruth Palethorpe achieving 73% in the extraordinarily difficult DELF C1 exam.
Alice Broadbent (L 5) came second in the Forward e-magazine Young Critics Competition and also made it on to the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition’s longlist. Hannah Miller (W U6) has been accepted as a member of the National Youth Theatre’s 2018 company as a theatre technician.
Fourteen of Oundle’s top chemists received awards in the 2018 UK Chemistry Olympiad, including one gold, five silver and eight bronze awards. Kadi Sun (pictured above) was among the 30 highest scorers and was invited to a four-day residential course at Cambridge University.
Danila Mikhaylov (C L6) was specially commended in Peterhouse's (University of Cambridge) Vellacott History Essay Competition. Eleanor Thomas, Kitan Lanre-Phillips, Isabella Wilson, Mason Lam, Adam
Hutchinson and Antonia Simpson were victorious at the annual Spanish Declamation Competition. More Oundle pupils were awarded gold certificates than in previous years at this year’s Royal Society of Biology’s Challenge Competition, which had more than 48,000 entrants and for the first time included Second Form pupils alongside the usual Third and Fourth Form competitors.
This year the Carnegie Medal Shadowing Scheme involved the entire Third Form and culminated in a whole year assembly featuring presentations about each of the eight shortlisted books and judged by award-winning author Kevin Crossley- Holland.
The Second Form team of Noa Anderson (By), Sophie Hawkes (L), Issy Henderson (L) and Rachel Johnston (By) came second in the Central England heat of the annual Kids’ Lit Quiz.
Third Former Marcus McDevitt (pictured above), who has a diploma in piano, played the organ in Chapel.
The School Junior Mathematics team were the winners of the regional final of the Team Mathematical Challenge at King’s School, Peterborough.
Nine feeder prep schools visited SciTec for the annual STEM Experience. Four junior debaters brought home the Junior Inter-Schools Oswald Elliot Debating Competition Trophy for the second year running.
Nine Oundle pupils attended the ninth Model United Nations Conference at Felsted School, along with 25 schools from across the UK and overseas.
Alfie Dobson (St A, pictured below left) and Hugh Ralli (Ldr, centre) have each been awarded a much sought-after Arkwright Engineering Scholarship that identifies them amongst the country’s future leaders in engineering and related areas of design.
Four Oundle pupils who had just finished their GCSE exams took part in the highly selective 2017 Yale Young Global Scholars Program at the Yale campus.
THE OLD OUNDELIAN 2017 –2018
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SCHOOL NEWS
The academic year
Katie Atkinson, the School’s Interim Director of Communications, looks back at individual and group achievements by Oundle pupils in and outside the classroom during the 2017-18 academic year