STUDENTS from Monmouth are celebrating more record A-level results today.

At Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools, students gained twice the national average for the top A level grades.

Monmouth School for Boys enjoyed its best results since 2012, with 21 per cent of pupils achieving A* grades, and 55 per cent A* to A.

At Monmouth School for Girls, 17 per cent were A* grades and 54 per cent were A* to A.

Two boys, Sam Sully and Jonathan Chan, achieved a remarkable four A*s in their examinations.

One girl, Amelia Livingstone from Chepstow, was awarded four A*s and will be reading maths at Imperial College London.

A total of 76 percent of the boys were awarded A* to B grades and 28 per cent per cent achieved three or more A to A* grades.

It was a similar success at the girls where a total of 75 per cent were awarded A* to B grades and more than a third achieved three or more A to A* grades.

Monmouth Comprehensive School has also spoken of its “delight and pride” for A-level students today.

This was the first year at the comprehensive that students took the new graded Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate. In Year 12, 150 students took their AS and BTEC qualifications and achieved an apparently excellent set of results, with many 'outstanding' individual performances.

Director of Sixth Form Studies, Mrs Caroline Guest, said: “Our students leave with the knowledge, skills and experiences to reach their full potential in their next pathway and in life. At the core of our Sixth Form programme of study is the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate. This rigorous and widely recognised qualification prepares students for lifelong learning, enabling many students to achieve their university choice. The individual project component is structured in the format of a university dissertation and gives students the skills and experiences they will need to be successful in Higher Education. I am pleased to see that so many universities, including the Russell Group, made the qualification a requisite in the offer they made to students. It is evidence to the high regard of the Welsh Baccalaureate.”

See next week’s Beacon (23rd August) for more.