Badminton School students celebrate A Level success

Published on isbi School News dated Thursday 15th of August 2024

Students at Badminton joined their peers across the country this morning in receiving their A Level results. There was much to celebrate with over 60% achieving A/A* in 3 subjects enabling over 80% to secure their first-choice university.

The school are proud of many outstanding achievements; Tammy secured 4 A* grades and will take up a place to study Medicine at King’s College London. Sally who achieved 3 A* grades will study Physics at Imperial College. Ruth also achieved 4 A* grades and will be off to the University of Warwick to study Mathematics. Angharad has a won a place at Oxford to read Geography and Alice has secured her place at Cambridge to read Law.  Alice also gained full marks in Paper 1 and only dropped two marks in Paper 2 of her A Level English, as well as being one of the top four candidates in the country for her AFA creative writing course submission.

Students from the Class of 2024 at Badminton will be off to study a huge range of exciting courses both in the UK and overseas, ranging from Veterinary Science, Medicine and Actuarial Science to Urban Planning, Music and Cyber Security.   

Results day is also a chance to reflect on just how much the Class of 2024 achieved beyond the classroom.  Head Girl, Yijing, who is off to University of Warwick to study Law, made an outstanding contribution to the musical life of the school and was a keen participant in many local music festivals. On receiving her results she commented: “Although the A Level process has been challenging, it feels amazing to have come so far in the past two years. I am so grateful for the amazing support and all the skills that Badminton has taught me, that will continue to help me in the future.”   

Mrs Miles, Head said: “This year’s cohort are the first I’ve really got to know since taking over as Head at Badminton 15 months ago. They are a truly impressive group of young women who have contributed to the wider life of the school community whilst succeeding academically. I look forward to seeing where their continued journey takes them as they have already demonstrated that they have the motivation and ability to succeed”.