ULT celebrates first Oxbridge entrants
20 August 2010
ULT academies across the country are celebrating after students achieved record-breaking A-level results.
Two students who have extra cause for celebration are Stockport Academy's Head Girl Holly Murray and Helen Creighton, from William Hulme's Grammar School, who have secured places at Cambridge University. They are the first ULT academy students to confirm undergraduate places at Cambridge.
Holly will be reading Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Helen will be reading Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Both are celebrating after receiving remarkable A* and A results at A-level which clinched their university places. Whilst less than 10% of A-level exams in the UK were awarded the new A* grade, Holly gained three maths and science A*s and Helen achieved two maths and economics A*s.
Sir Ewan Harper, Chief Executive of ULT, said: "It is wonderful that Holly and Helen have received outstanding A-level results to confirm their places at Cambridge. We are delighted for them congratulate both on their success. Their achievements send out a strong signal of just what can be achieved when talent and hard work are given the encouragement and environment in which to flourish.”
"The fact that Holly achieved this from a school that, until it became an academy, did not have a Sixth Form let alone send any students to university is a remarkable achievement. It is a great tribute to the way in which staff have stimulated her imagination and supported her extraordinary hard work. This is strong evidence of the real academic progress being made at Stockport Academy."
