St Albans Girls' School

Welcome to St Albans Girls' School

Message from the Head:

We are now well into the summer examination season, with students focused on their GCSE and A Level examinations. Please ensure that your daughter/son clearly follows their exam timetable, arriving on time, with correct equipment and brings a bottle of water to the examinations as keeping properly hydrated does help the brain to function more effectively, especially if it is a lengthy exam. Students are expected to dress in correct school uniform for Years 10 and 11 and appropriate Post 16 business dress for A Levels so that they focus their minds on their work, not their latest fashion purchase.

Congratulations to Emily Fox, Rachel Exact, Josie Roscoe, Zoe Phillips who have all been awarded the Young Engineers GOLD crest award. This is very prestigious and involved the students working with the Hertfordshire Highways Agency focusing on traffic congestion and air pollution in St Albans – a solution for which I am sure that we would all relish!

I look forward to seeing you at the Parent Voice meeting on Wednesday 23rd May where we will be reviewing our school improvement plan and setting new targets for the forthcoming academic year.

Margaret Chapman

Read this week's Stagslink

Examination results at STAGS:

We are delighted and extremely proud of the successes and achievements of all of our students. It is wonderful to see their diligence and determination rewarded so well, opening the gateway to their futures. Everyone involved should be extremely proud of their achievements.

A Level successes:

Our A level results were again record breaking, exceeding targets and celebrate so much individual success:

• 15 students achieved an incredible total of straight A* and A grades.
• Over 60% of all grades were A*-B
• We show an upward trend in A* successes and a total of 32% of students achieving A* and A grades
• We are also delighted with our AS performance with 29 students securing straight A grades, with 32& securing A grades (19% in 2010) and 57% securing A & B grades (43% in 2010)

Congratulations to all of our students and staff on these fabulous successes achieved through diligence and hard work.

GCSE successes:

I am delighted to confirm another outstanding year of results:

• 85% of all Year 11 students achieved 5A*-C grades including English and maths
• 90% of all Year 11 students achieved 5 A*-C without English and Maths
• An amazing 39 girls achieved 9.5 or more A* and A grades
• 48% achieved A* and A grades

Congratulations to all students and staff who worked so hard to ensure success.

Parent View

I would like to encourage all our parents to spend five minutes rating St Albans Girls’ School on the new Ofsted Parent View web site. Details on how to access the web site and register to use it can be found on our Letter/Forms page. I hope you feel the quality of our work for all students at the school is what you would expect and it would be great to tell Ofsted this through their web site.

Student Survey www.testingforschools.com/do/login/sagsal36db/alban262

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