A levels Results Day: Schools across the West Midlands celebrate their success and look to the future
Today is a day that brings high expectations and moments of joy for many across the region as youngsters learn how their two years of study and hard work have panned out.
At schools and colleges in the Black Country, Staffordshire and Wyre Forest, students have been celebrating or commiserating after receiving their A-Level results and working out their next steps, whether that is university, an apprenticeship or more study.
Students in England are expected to receive A-Level grades that are closer to the results achieved before the Covid pandemic triggered school closures and exam cancellations, with grades more closely resembling those given out in 2019.
One school celebrating the success of its students after two years of hard work is Wolverhampton Grammar School, with headteacher Nic Anderson saying that the school had been celebrating its best sets of results in almost a decade.
Mr Anderson also spoke about the emotions that he went through each year on A-Level results day and offered praise to all the students who had worked hard and achieved a lot.
He said: "I'm absolutely delighted with the results, which are some of the best results we've had in the last 10 years and include two of our students getting into Cambridge University.
"For me as head, it's always a nervous time with a lot of apprehension as we're never sure about results, but it's always a sense of relief when we see the results and I always have a big smile on my face, particularly with some of the amazing individual results.
"The students have done an amazing amount of work and they want to achieve and are so self-motivated to achieve and our staff work incredibly hard to help them to achieve that and put them on the right paths for the right courses.
"We hope to be able to send them out full of confidence and be able to achieve what they want to achieve and become future leaders, future doers, future educators and whatever it is that they might want to achieve."
