00:20 Can you just give me your headline figures please and just how you feel about this year's results?
00:25 Yeah, we're very pleased with this year's results considering we are being judged against 2019 levels.
00:30 We are slightly up, well we are up by 3% in our 7-9 grades, the top grades.
00:36 The national picture is different to that, there's a reduction in top grades, so we're very pleased with that achievement.
00:41 Overall our 9-4s, including English and Maths, are slightly up, about a percentage up on our grades in 2019.
00:48 For me, 2019 really was an uninterrupted year, uninterrupted cohort of years.
00:55 Whereas 2023 of course, these children had their education disrupted, primarily in Year 8 and Year 9, the important middle years of secondary education.
01:05 Both Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland made adjustments to their marking schemes with the examination boards, England have not.
01:12 In fact, in some cases the top grades boundaries have gone higher, making it more difficult to achieve those grade 9s.
01:18 Saying that, our grade 9s have increased, but ever so slightly, based on our 2019 figures and what we've got this year in 2023.
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01:45 Pleased?
01:46 Yeah, very, very.
01:49 Ok then John, how did you do? Just give me a rundown of your results.
01:53 So I got 3 9s, 4 8s, a 6, a 7 and a 5.
01:58 How do you feel about the results then?
02:00 I'm very happy with them.
02:01 Were you nervous last night and this morning?
02:03 Yeah, I was quite nervous last night.
02:05 And what's your plans now then?
02:07 I'm staying on for 6th Form at Woodburn.
02:10 What are you going to study?
02:11 Biology, Chemistry and Maths.
02:13 Ok, in the middle, just give me a rundown of your results in terms of what levels you got.
02:17 I got a 9 in English Literature, an 8 in English Language, Sociology, an RA, a 7 in History, a 5 in PA, a 4 in Maths and a 5, 5 in Science.
02:30 How do you feel about your results then?
02:31 I'm so happy, like beyond happy.
02:33 I understand you missed quite a bit of school, yeah?
02:35 Yeah, I did. I missed about 6 months in total probably. It didn't look like I was going to sit my GCSE, so I'm just absolutely buzzing that I managed to sit them all.
02:43 Were you nervous coming down this morning?
02:45 Ridiculously nervous, like nothing you've ever seen I don't think.
02:48 And what was your reaction when you opened the exam results?
02:51 I couldn't believe it. I was shocked. I didn't feel like they were mine, I just was really happy.
02:57 Ok then, Violet, how did you do then?
03:01 I got 6 9s, 3 8s and 1 7.
03:06 And what was your reaction when you opened the envelope?
03:08 I was very happy and surprised.
03:10 Was there any tears?
03:11 Yeah.
03:12 I'm just glad I did.
03:15 And how did you feel coming down to school this morning?
