Pupils at a Lake District school are celebrating their International Baccalaureate results.
Windermere School said there were outstanding individual diploma results and an exceptional performance by the whole cohort of students taking the vocational business course on the IB Career Pathway.
Head Frank Thompson said: “We are proud of all our Year 13 students’ efforts and achievements today. We are a small school so to have four of our diploma
students score over 40 points – equivalent to 4 A* at A-level – is exceptional.
“We also have a thriving Career Pathway with 89% of our students this year achieving a double distinction in BTEC business. This great success will give
our new sixth form students a real boost as they prepare to start their vocational pathway in business or our new adventure course next term.”
The IB diploma and career pathways prepare students for a wide range of university courses and this year, these include engineering, veterinary medicine, philosophy,
politics and economics, chemistry, theology, and computer science at Russell Group universities UCL, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Leeds, York and Exeter.
More students these days are opting to gain their degree through following an apprenticeship.
