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Forest School Snaresbrook

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MarkHemmings · 20/08/2022 17:25

Well, the A-level results are out and it will be interesting to see how well Forest School have done this year. After all, over the past three years the School have conjured up some truly dreadful results. I mean truly awful. Let's wait and see.

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CJFJ1 · 21/08/2022 11:37

Also please quote the DfE data that suggests Forest's exam results are "truly dreadful".

CJFJ1 · 21/08/2022 11:36

MarkHemmings · 21/08/2022 10:53

For someone who '
couldn't care' less about Forest School you've been doing a lot of homework. Let's hope kids at the School have been similarly industrious and have lifted the School out of their usual category of 'below average'. This is nothing to do with me mounting a grizzly vendetta - it's just me recounting recent DfE data. Or, are you suggesting DfE have also got it in for the School. That seems a bit unlikely doesn't it.

I couldn't care less about Forest School - but literally 5 minutes looking around the data available for those schools around Forest brings you to the A-level results I've quoted above. From which Forest's results still look pretty respectable and far from "truly dreadful".

And for someone who claims it's not part of a "grizzly vendetta", starting a Mumsnet thread specifically about Forest's exam results and claiming they're "truly dreadful" (along with all the other Forest vitriol on Mumsnet that you have posted that has since been deleted) suggests very much otherwise.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 21/08/2022 11:08

I'm interested to know what is your issue with the school, OP? Past parent? Used to work there? Past pupil?

I mean there has to be some personal reason here.

Devilishpyjamas · 21/08/2022 11:05

???
Why the obsession with Forest School?

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MarkHemmings · 21/08/2022 10:53

For someone who '
couldn't care' less about Forest School you've been doing a lot of homework. Let's hope kids at the School have been similarly industrious and have lifted the School out of their usual category of 'below average'. This is nothing to do with me mounting a grizzly vendetta - it's just me recounting recent DfE data. Or, are you suggesting DfE have also got it in for the School. That seems a bit unlikely doesn't it.

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CJFJ1 · 21/08/2022 08:58

CJFJ1 · 21/08/2022 08:56

A quick look around last Thursday's A-level results for schools, both independent and maintained, in and around Forest:

Bancroft's 76.5% A -A; 93% A-B
Forest 67% A-A; 85% A-B
llford County High School 55% A-A (A-B not published)
London Academy of Excellence Tottenham 47% A-A; 75% A-B
Highams Park School 57% A-B
Chingford Foundation 61% A-B
Holy Family Catholic School 50% A*- B
Heathcote School and Science College 50% A*-B

Far from "truly dreadful" for Forest. It's never going to be "up there" in terms of one of the top flight independent schools, but 67% A*-A is no mean feat for an independent school in the middling bracket.

As for my "enthusiasm", I couldn't care less about Forest School but the figures don't lie - 2022's A-level results are indeed the school's highest for some time. www.forest.org.uk/outstanding-a-level-results-2022/

Also, irrespective of what kind of vendetta you have against Forest, and also irrespective of league tables and statistics, to rail against the achievements of the current students and staff there doesn't paint you in the strongest of lights.

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Those should have read A(star) - A / A(star) -B in the post above.

CJFJ1 · 21/08/2022 08:56

MarkHemmings · 21/08/2022 07:15

Let's see if the DfE league table is as enthusiastic as you. I suspect not.

A quick look around last Thursday's A-level results for schools, both independent and maintained, in and around Forest:

Bancroft's 76.5% A -A; 93% A-B
Forest 67% A-A; 85% A-B
llford County High School 55% A-A (A-B not published)
London Academy of Excellence Tottenham 47% A-A; 75% A-B
Highams Park School 57% A-B
Chingford Foundation 61% A-B
Holy Family Catholic School 50% A*- B
Heathcote School and Science College 50% A*-B

Far from "truly dreadful" for Forest. It's never going to be "up there" in terms of one of the top flight independent schools, but 67% A*-A is no mean feat for an independent school in the middling bracket.

As for my "enthusiasm", I couldn't care less about Forest School but the figures don't lie - 2022's A-level results are indeed the school's highest for some time. www.forest.org.uk/outstanding-a-level-results-2022/

Also, irrespective of what kind of vendetta you have against Forest, and also irrespective of league tables and statistics, to rail against the achievements of the current students and staff there doesn't paint you in the strongest of lights.

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MarkHemmings · 21/08/2022 07:15

Let's see if the DfE league table is as enthusiastic as you. I suspect not.

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CJFJ1 · 20/08/2022 22:34

CJFJ1 · 20/08/2022 22:33

www.forest.org.uk/outstanding-a-level-results-2022/

Best ever A level results: 67% A - A grades and 85% A - B.

Correction: that should have read 67% A* - A grades.

CJFJ1 · 20/08/2022 22:33

www.forest.org.uk/outstanding-a-level-results-2022/

Best ever A level results: 67% A - A grades and 85% A - B.

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