Pictured – Students who achieved straight 9s

Despite a hugely challenging year with examinations being cancelled for a second year running, our Years 11 and Upper Sixth students achieved outstanding results.

Highlights in the Sixth Form include a record 95% of applicants achieving university places at their first or insurance choice university. With 88% being awarded a place at their first-choice university.  

Our IB cohort achieved an average point score of 39.6 (the international average is 33.02) and the cohort all accepted places at their first-choice universities.

GCSE results were also outstanding, and one third of the year group received an impressive grade 9 in at least one subject.

The school values all of the diverse journeys that girls choose to take with their qualifications. The rich and varied mix of further study courses is testament to this: Medicine, Veterinary Science, Computer Science and statistics, English Literature, Fashion, Fine Art, Geography, Law, Mathematics, Music, Speech and Language Therapy and Zoology are among some of the degrees to be taken at a range of leading universities.

Amongst our many successes, five students are heading off to Oxbridge, and they will be the first recipients of the Shortland-Jones Oxbridge Award. Mrs Shortland-Jones was an alumna of Bedford High School who kindly bequeathed a legacy, with specific instructions that it should be used as an annual award for Oxbridge students, to help fund their study. Each year from 2021 onwards, BGS students who are awarded places to study for undergraduate degrees at Cambridge or Oxford will receive a generous annual contribution from the legacy for the length of their undergraduate degree, as a testimony to their outstanding achievement.    

Congratulations to all of our incredible students!