St Dunstan's School in Glastonbury is celebrating excellent GCSE results.

In spite of the pandemic, St Dunstan's students have navigated their way through the new procedures with grace and fortitude supported by their teachers.

Once they understood how the new grading process was going to work, they set to producing high quality evidence of their ability.

The Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, which runs the school, has taken the grading process extremely seriously to ensure that there is no danger of grade inflation.

Results have been awarded through a rigorous process of teacher assessed grades which has included moderation of marking within the school, across the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership and by exam boards.

The Progress 8 score for the school is positive - St Dunstan's students can be absolutely confident that the processes and procedures put in place ensure that their results are an accurate reflection of the hard work they have done and will have prepared them well for that next step in their lives.

Headline figures for St Dunstan's include:

• 100 per cent of students achieved one or more qualifications
• 67.2 per cent of students achieved grade 4 or above in five subjects including English and Maths
• 42.2 per cent of students achieved grade 5 or above in five subjects including English and Maths
• 11 per cent of students achieved grades 9 to 7 in English and Maths

• Harvey Coles who achieved three grade 9s and two grade 8s
• Poppy Holt who achieved three grade 9s and two grade 8s
• Molly Perkins who achieved two grade 9s and two grade 8s
• Alice Berry who achieved two grade 9s and two grade 8s
• Lucy Manley who achieved two grade 9s and three grade 8s
• Lily Gilling who achieved six grades 8s
• Fiona Turnbull who achieved three grade 8s