100% Success for Priory Pupils at GCSE

100% of pupils at Priory School achieved 5 or more GCSE's at A* to C with 78% of pupils gaining 5 or more A* to C including English and Maths.

45% of entries were at A* to A grade and there were some outstanding performances in individual subject areas:

• 100% A* to A in English Literature, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Spanish and History.
• 100% A* to C in Media studies, Geography, French and Drama.
• 89% A* to C in English Language and 78% A* to C in Maths.

This represents a significant improvement on last year's results and this is a testament both to the hard work and focus of the pupils themselves and to the high quality teaching and dedicated support of the staff here at Priory.

Congratulations to all our pupils.

Performing Arts Review

We celebrated a number of days dedicated to the performing arts this year.  In the Prep School children participated in a range of activities from Kathak dancing through to mosaic making and a lively drama workshop.  

The programme in the senior school was equally varied with exciting workshops led by professionals in drama, photography, Indian dance and singing. The icing on the cake was the performance by the choir and hand bell ensemble from the Cornelia Connelly High School, our sister school in the United States, who had  joined us for the Arts Day.  We hope that this will be the beginning of more visits and exchanges to Cornelia Connelly schools throughout the world.

In Music, our pupils achieved 100% pass rate in all external instrumental and theory exams with one Year 8 student, Catherine Wainwright, gaining 90% (distinction) in her Grade 5 theory examination. This is recognized to be at a similar level to that of GCSE, an excellent achievement.

The Prep School orchestra has flourished this year under the baton of Miss Costello and there have been some wonderful individual performances during the Afternoon Tea, Poetry and Music sessions for parents.  

Congratulations to the performers in our drama production of ‘Hard to Swallow’ who received a Highly Commended from the Knights of St Columba and Aphra Gilmore who received a judges commendation for her individual performance.  This summer also saw the first Shakespeare production in the senior school to include boys when Year 9 performed excerpts from Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

The GCSE Dance course continues to flourish. All students who were entered for the Dance GCSE this year have taken the exam two years early and have coped beautifully with the standard of a Year 11 examination which contains complex theory and practice.

 

 

Sports Report

The opportunities to participate in sport have focused the talents of our pupils and it has been another impressive year both in terms of individual performances as well as team games.

The highlights include:

• The Prep school football team playing in the top tier of the Kings Norton Football League, usually only for schools with three form entries and reaching the finals of the Catholic Schools Football Cup.
  
• The Year 5 girls cross country team winning the Priory Mile Competition finishing an impressive 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
  
• The Prep School netball team getting through to the last 8 in both the Independent Schools Association Midland Netball Competition and Birmingham Catholic Netball Finals.
  
• The Year 8 Football Team being crowned the Midlands Small Independent School Champions and winning nine out of their ten games this year.
  
• Year 6 pupil, Luke Hammond, being selected to play for Great Britain in the junior Davis Cup and winning both his doubles matches and three out of his four singles matches!  
  
• Year 8 sports scholar Maxwell Martin who won the Independent Schools Association National Junior Golf Championships and finished 2nd in the European Junior Golf Championships and 3rd in the World Golf Junior Championship.
  
• The brother and sister athletic duo of Daniel and Cerise Telphia. Cerise, who is in Year 5, came 3rd in the sprint at the Birmingham Catholic Schools Athletic Championships and also reached the finals of the ISA athletics championships.  Whilst Daniel was selected to represent South Birmingham in the West Midlands Athletic Competition, after winning the javelin in the South Birmingham Schools trials, finishing 5th.
  
• The Prep School cricket team who came 2nd in the Independent schools Association Midlands Tournament and reached the semi-finals of the Birmingham Catholic Schools Cricket competition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information on events this year look at our Events Calendar