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2020vision Merchants Connected Archives2009 A-Level Press Release
It's got to remain tough at the top according to Merchant Taylors' Girls' School Headmistress Louise Robinson.
The distinguished Headmistress was announcing another set of outstanding A level results with 100% pass rate with 78% of grades at A and B.
Mrs Robinson said "The media has quite rightly highlighted the fact that many schools are inflating their academic results by encouraging students to take easier subjects, but at Merchants' we want our girls to become prime candidates for Britain's very best universities for the top professions that this country and the international market has to offer."
"Merchants' Girls' School has always been at the forefront of providing rigorous academic education for girls from its foundation during the Victorian era. Now our girls are continuing to pioneer academic excellence in Science, Maths and Engineering" said Mrs Robinson.
"This year we have 100% A and B grades in Physics and Further Mathematics as well as in French and Theology, proving that when the going gets tough the tough get going."
Three girls Lydia Wild, Lauren McNally and Handan Wieshmann achieved five straight A grades with a further 11 girls again four A grades and above. All five Oxbridge candidates achieved their offers with Alice Cantell-Hynes going up to study Materials Science at Oxford; Kate Burns reading Chemistry at Oxford; Rebecca Kane reading Nature Sciences at Cambridge; Abbie Cavanagh reading Theology at Oxford and young opera singing star Meriel Cunningham reading Chemistry at Oxford with a Choral Scholarship.
Merchants' Girls was also delighted to announce that another five girls will be going up to Britain's leading medical schools, achieving their dreams in the most competitive university admission.
