Students from North Bridge House Senior Hampstead are celebrating outstanding GCSE results today, with an overall 44% grades 7 and above – compared to 22% nationally – and over a quarter of grades at an 8 or above.

Despite a fall in top GCSE grades in England this year, North Bridge House Senior Hampstead students continued to achieve impressive grades across a broad range of subjects, with notable success in the sciences: 41% of students achieved an 8 or 9 in Chemistry, 57% achieved 7-9 in Biology and 60% achieved 7-9 in Physics. Across the school’s top ten performing students, every STEM grade achieved was an 8 or 9. 

Students also celebrated top grade success in modern foreign languages, with 40% of those taking German achieving a 9 and 35% of French students achieving this A* equivalent, too. 

Representing the school’s strength in both the science and language departments, high performer Jasmin Selim secured the top grade 9 in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and German among her string of six 9s and three 8s.

Picture caption: Jasmin Selim achieved 8s and 9s across the board

High grades continued across the creative subjects: 100% of Textiles students achieved an 8 or 9, and 77% of Photography grades were a 7 or above. Both 3D Design and Art also saw over half of students achieve grades 7-9.

Top performing student Kira Tenthorey Vinuesa will be attending Marylebone Sixth Form, having achieved an incredible ten grade 9s across English Language, English Literature, Maths, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Food Preparation and Nutrition, French, and Spanish, plus an A in Further Maths. 

Picture caption: Head Boy Koru Ayan also celebrated top grade success in science, and in
Geography, Maths and Turkish, too.

88% of the overall grades awarded across the cohort, including English and Maths, were at a 5 or above. 

Headteacher Christopher Jones concludes: 

“At NBH we have worked incredibly hard to help the Class of 2023 navigate the challenges of the last few years and secure the best possible GCSE results along with the skills they need to guide themselves on their future pathways.

Though they have had a different educational journey than their predecessors, our students continue to impress us with their remarkable resilience and achievements.

As an academically non-selective school, we are immensely proud to see so many top grades as well as a class average of 6.25. Besides the headlines, there are so many individual journeys for which simple numbers cannot convey the rapid progress made from starting points. Above all, I am proud of the Class of 2023’s discipline and attitude to learning. Beyond their hard-earned qualifications, their commitment to simply getting on with the challenge in hand will serve them well in their successful futures.”