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Students pour over their results while Evan Winter and Laura Wickstead (far right) celebrate fantastic grades
RECORD breaking GCSE results are fantastic news for all students and staff at Carr Hill.
And with big changes due in the coming weeks it is an exciting time to be part of the Carr Hill community.
Mr Earnshaw added: “The results overall are absolutely fantastic and we have had a high number of students who have performed exceptionally well achieving outstanding results. We can now look forward to the future in helping these students and many more grow further in their education by welcoming them into our sixth form.
“I am delighted we are celebrating our best ever results but we won’t be resting on our laurels. When we welcome our students back next week the hard work continues towards even better results next year.
“With our new school day, our new pastoral care system, and our new weekly programme of enrichment activities, all coming on top of our best ever results and the opening of the new Sixth Form Centre, we are making rapid progress towards our goal of providing an outstanding 11 to 18 education to the young people of Kirkham and the surrounding area.”
Enjoying particular success this year are Laura Wickstead with 13 passes including nine A*s and three As, Evan Winter with five A*s and eight As and Daniel Holland with four A*s and eight As.
All are planning to return to Carr Hill to study for their A Levels in the new £2million Sixth Form Centre.
A delighted Laura, 16, said: “When I saw the results I was pretty chuffed and I am really very happy. I did work hard so I am very pleased that it’s paid off.
“I really want to come back into the sixth form and stay loyal to the school that has got me these results. I love Carr Hill. It’s got great teachers and it’s a really good working environment.”
Meanwhile Evan Winter, 16, was over the moon with his results.
He said: “I expected to do OK but when I opened the envelope I was delighted. I have spent many nights revising so this definitely makes it all worthwhile.
“And now I’m looking forward to the sixth form. We have a great rapport with all the teachers and it’s a brilliant place to study.”
PRISON ME...NO WAY!
 
Andy Spires (y10) gets "arrested" and Holly Wyper (Y9) hears harsh words from a prison officer as she's locked in a "cell."
The Prison Me…No Way day involved a series of simulated exercises including creating a crash scene caused by a drink driver which resulted in a student having to be cut free by the fire service and a number of students were also locked in a prison cell. There were also workshops aimed at first aid, safe internet use, anti-social behaviour and the effects of making hoax calls.
And to ensure students had a full experience of what prison life is really like they were split into prison wings all day long with all their normal liberties taken away.
The Prison Me…No Way day was organised by The No Way Trust which aims to keep youngsters up and down the country on the straight and narrow.
Martin Young works for the Prison Service and co-ordinates the days.
He said by bringing a variety of agencies together on crime and safety awareness days the students gain a wider knowledge about the consequences of a wrong action or decision.
He said: “We like to get them at this age to show them the affects of being led into drinking alcohol. We run about 200 of these days across the country over the course of a year so these students are very lucky to get this.
“We can’t say how effective it is yet but we feel it gives them the tools to use later in their life. They might go home and talk to their friends, brothers and sisters and even their parents to get the message across to a wider audience and that makes it successful.”
Care leader Mrs Shepherd organised the event and said it has a great impact.
She said: “We want all the students to learn how if they make the wrong decision in life it could lead to prison. We don’t want them to commit crimes, we want them to lead positive lives and hopefully this will help them see that.
“Prison Me…No Way is such a powerful way of teaching students how important it is not to get into trouble or break the law and I think it is very effective. When they see things like the crash or the prison cell it is such a shock and hopefully they will always remember that.
“It is a great way of making them really think about the consequences of their actions.”
The No Way Trust is a national educational charity set up in 1995 by prison officers who wanted to make an impact on the lives of young people and turn them away from crime and its consequences using highly innovative educational techniques.
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