South Manchester Reporter
Friday 27 August 2010

Manchester Grammar School achieved record A Level results with an astonishing 97% A*, A and B grades.

Over 32% of all grades awarded to MGS students were at the new A*, nearly five times the national average. Almost 75% of grades were A or A*, compared up from 70% last year
Once again, over half of MGS’s A level students achieved ‘straight’ A grades while more than 20 MGS students gained three or more A* grades.

Indeed, six achieved four A* grades, five achieved five A*s and one gained six A*s.

Pictured are just some of MGS’s high flyers from Sale and Altrincham. Tim Moyo, 18, from Queens Road, Hale, will read Russian and Czech at University College, Oxford, after gaining three straight A stars.

Alex Law, 18. from Winston Close, Sale, gained four A stars and will read Classics at Corpus Christi College,  Oxford. Kai Man Cheung, 18, from Mosley Road, Timperley, will read Engineering at Robinson College, Cambridge, after gaining three A stars and an A. Alex Lee, 18, from Greenhill Avenue, Sale, will read Engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge after gaining five A stars.

James Campbell, 18, from Kings Acre Bowdon, gained four A stars and one A and will read Natural Sciences at Robinson College, Cambridge. Thomas Lindsay, 18, from Heald Road, Bowdon, gained four A stars and will read Medicine at Edinburgh.

High Master, Dr Christopher Ray, said: MGS remains among a relatively small number of schools which achieve an academic performance better than 95% B grade or better at A-level. In fact, last year only three schools north of Oxford achieved anything like this level of performance.

What is most encouraging is the fact that the School has continued to improve academically at a time when university entrance is becoming increasingly competitive. The vast majority of our students gain access to the very best universities the UK has to offer including, Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, Nottingham, Manchester and Birmingham.

MGS has always been a strong route to study Maths, Sciences and Modern Foreign Languages and this year is no exception, with high numbers going on to study in these specialist areas at university.

Bury Times
Friday 27 August 2010

Bury buddies Simon Brunner and Daniel Lewis helped The Manchester Grammar School record their best ever A-level results.

Simon, 18, from Birch Lea Close, Bury, got three straight A grades and will read Medicine at Birmingham University.  The Chair of the MGS School Council and the MGS Communications Officer, Simon (left) wants to become a consultant paediatrician.

Half marathon runner Daniel, 18, from Old Hall Lane, Whitefield, got a clean sweep of five A stars and is waiting on an offer from Robinson College Cambridge to read Mathematics.

Jewish Telegraph
Friday 27 August 2010

Manchester Grammar School’s Jewish academics were again among the star performers as MGS achieved record A Level results with an astonishing 97% A*, A and B grades.

MGS’s successful Jewish students included from left to right: Daniel Berlyne, 18, from Middleton who gained five A stars; Daniel will now read Mathematics at Warwick.

Daniel Lewis, 18, from Whitefield was another star student to gain five A stars and will read Mathematics at Robinson College, Cambridge.

Michael Blank, 18, from Cheadle, gained three A stars and will read Medicine at Birmingham.

Simon Brunner, 18, from Bury, gained three As and will read Medicine at Birmingham.

Josh Kaye, 18, from Church Court, whose results were among the very best in the country with a clean sweep of six A stars, will read Natural Sciences at University College, Durham.

Knutsford Guardian
Friday 27 August 2010

Knutsford mathematician Will Cook produced a five star performance in this year’s A-levels.

The 18-year-old Manchester Grammar School student, from High Legh, gained five A stars in Maths, Further Maths, Advanced Further Maths, Physics and Latin and is now in the Summer pool for a place at Cambridge.

A musician and a member of the MGS Mathematics British Olympiad Team, Will is keen to move in to research.

Middleton Guardian
Friday 27 August 2010
 
Middleton young academics Adam Chekroud and Daniel Berlyne were among The Manchester Grammar School’s star performers in this year’s best ever results.

Adam, 18, (left) from Wellens Way gained two A stars and threes As and will now read Experimental Psychology at New College, Oxford, hoping to ultimately complete an MBA at Harvard.

Daniel Berlyne got a clean sweep of five A stars and will read Mathematics at Warwick, and hopes to go into mathematical research.

Salford Advertiser
Friday 27 August 2010

Worsley teenager Daniel Caplin is hoping his three A stars and one A grade will be the first step to a career working for the European Union.

A student at The Manchester Grammar School, Daniel, 18, from Broad Oak Road, will now study Spanish and Portuguese at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge.  He said: I have family in Spain, but I was also really turned on to the Latin culture by the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and think the Latins have a powerful manner of communication and almost magical imagination.

Daniel, who is jazz guitarist and talented basketball player, added: I hope to teach first, but I would love to work for the EU and help build a stronger and more prosperous Europe.