WOLVERLEY students have maintained their record of high performance in public examinations with students gaining impressive results at GCSE, A level and at university.

Rebecca Yin, a student in year 10 took GCSE Chinese in the summer and was among the top ten highest scorers in the country.

The Edexcel Examination Board, which is the largest awarding body in the UK, wrote recently to Kevin O'Regan, headteacher, to notify him of this superb achievement.

Mr O'Regan said: "Not only has Rebecca gained an A*, she has done so a year early and is amongst the top ten in the country. We are all very proud of her."

The school has always promoted fast-track students and this year a whole class of students in year 10 passed GCSE English one year early with most gaining A and B grades.

Year 11 students gained exceptional results, with several gaining upwards of ten GCSEs at the highest grades.

The highest scorers were Bobby Qureshi with 13 GCSEs or equivalent all at A and A*, Tom Williams with 11 GCSEs or equivalent seven of them at A and A*, Amy Evans with 12 GCSE or equivalent, six of which were a A and A*, Jon Aitken who achieved the same number with five at A and A* and Alice Elderton who gained 9 GCSEs or equivalent five at A and A*.

The overall proportion gaining five or A* to C grades rose again over last year's very good results.

At A level, results were similarly impressive with all students able to proceed to higher education as planned.

The highest scorers were Ben Powell with four straight A grades and Kate Broadhurst with three A grades.

The school has recently received news of outstanding performance by former students in degree courses.

James Duke has just gained a first class degree in astro-physics and Robert Nash a first class degree in psychology.

Both are now proceeding to higher degrees.

Three students from the same year group, Kerri Andrews, Wayne Price and James Giblin have recently been awarded PhDs, two in sciences and one in literature.

Mr O'Regan added: "I am very proud of all our students and the results are clear evidence that we enable students to achieve their very best.

"They are also clear proof that we have not allowed the re-organisation of education to distract us from our task of providing excellent education to all our current students."