These pupils at Sheffield Notre Dame High School's were in Y7 when the pandemic hit.

The Star, Sheffield

These pupils at Sheffield Notre Dame High School's were in Y7 when the pandemic hit. Now they're celebrating playing their part in the school's 'Best Ever Exam Results' on GCSE Results Day 2024.

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00:00All good? Right, thank you guys. My name's Alistair from Sheppard Star, the newspaper.

00:04We're down at Notre Dame today. It's GCSE results day. I've been told that you guys

00:07have some of the best results the school has ever had. How are you guys all feeling today?

00:12Nervous this morning or did you know you had this one in the bag?

00:17I think a big one for me this year is that you guys would have been, a lot of people have

00:26forgotten that you guys would have been in year 7 in 2019, and that's when the pandemic

00:30came along. You guys have been through an absolutely extraordinarily tough time. Are

00:34you able to talk to people about what that was like or just what you guys have been through

00:37I suppose?

00:38It was the same course, but we did everything online. And then when we came back, it was

00:44a bunch of gaps, stuff we didn't do. It was all in my sub-year.

00:51Did it ever feel unfair? Was it hard to express to people kind of what you've been through?

00:56I mean, we kind of missed some of the basics and stuff, but we learnt them along the way

01:03as we went into year 10 and stuff.

01:08Would you like to talk about what sort of results you've got today? You can go along the way.

01:14I got 6 9s, 8 8s and 7s.

01:20I got 2 9s, 5 8s and 2 7s.

01:25I got 4 9s, 4 8s and 2 7s.

01:28I got 5 8s, 2 7s and 2 6s.

01:32I got 3 9s, the rest 8s and then 1 7 in history.

01:37Our teachers are off behind us and they're massively proud for you to say you've gone

01:41through this, what we had to go through these past five years. You've come out with some

01:43stunning results all the same. You really get to show people that you kind of did it

01:46all off your own back. So really well done everyone. Do you know what you're going to

01:49do with it? What your plan is now?

01:51I can't remember if not done as a 6 4, but you're going to stay here then, alright.

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