Educating Yorkshire C4 9pm

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Am looking forward to this, RL Waterloo Rd?

Ryan is like Peter Perfect he makes me want to vomit . I liked Bailey though she seems a nice kid.

Bit extreme SoontobeSix - he struck me as a very bright kid who has probably struggled with confidence/being accepted in the past.

Thornhill has gone from 29% 5 A*-C inc English and Maths in 2009 to 63% in 2012. No wonder they are proud of what they are doing.

They have probably got more adept at finding easier qualifications for the kids to do.

Bollocks coco sorry but angers me that the assumption when schools improve is that they have magically found some easy exams. Their is outrage that schools are failing kids when they get poor results and disbelief when results improve. When I look back at how I was taught and compare it to today's teaching the difference is stark. Teaching has improved dramatically in the past 30 years.

English and maths aren't easy

It's not normally the three other GCSEs that are the problem.

what are these 'easier' exams then coco?

"He makes me want to vomit" What an awful thing to say Soontobe.
I thought Ryan was a fabulous young man, with so much potential. I hope he continues to grow in confidence and go on to great things.

My school improved its results in a similar way, the kids aren't much brighter, the exams aren't easier... More of our teachers are good, the retention of staff has improved, but crucially, through a combination of staff efforts and improved facilities we have raised the aspirations of the students.

wonderstuff I was dead pleased to see your school had improved results this year .

I watched this l like this and catsbum mouth

I don't want DS to go to school now if that's what it is like these days

Where was the respect? :(

Do you realise how nasty that sounds, coco27?

I'm watching this on catch-up now, it's great to see how they are treating them like individuals.

Catgirl 88% in GCSEs means it's a good school. But I know exactly what you mean.

meglet we're predicting even better results next year

I enjoyed this show. Was very much like my old high school near Wakefield. The HT was fun, I think the high school I went to would have enjoyed a head like him.

btecs and diplomas ''equivalent'' to many gcses.I know thegovt is on to this now but i don't thinkthey were in the 2012 cycle

Equivalents are still allowed.

That still doesn't take away from the fact that 63% of those kids came away with good GCSEs in Maths and English, opening many doors for them, and better than the national average.

Buit some of these diploma include a maths and English element.Are you sure they don't count ?

Here are the Maths and English equivalents that count in the measure:

GCSE in English; or
Enter both English Language GCSE and English Literature GCSE and achieved A*-C in English Language; or
GCSE Double Award in English; or
Cambridge International Certificate in First Language English; or
CIE legacy iGCSE in English ? First Language; or
AS English; and

GCSE mathematics; or
GCSE Additional mathematics; or
Enter both GCSE Applications of Mathematics and GCSE Methods in Mathematics and achieved A*-C in either; or
Cambridge International Certificate in Mathematics; or
CIE legacy iGCSE in Mathematics; or
AS mathematics

No easy options there, I think.

coco27, is it so inconceivable that kids at the school would be able to get a GCSE in Maths and English?
The programme will have been heavily edited - it's not good TV to show classes of engaged pupils studying.

oh ok.I stand corrected.

exactly bigtilly bear in mind this is channel4.

sorry, there should have been a full stop after bigtilly

Back on tha knows

I'm watching, really liked last week :)