THE MAYOR of the Royal Borough's daughter was one of the top perfoming pupils at The Marist School in this year's record GCSE results. 

An outstanding 61 per cent of exams were passed with an A*-A grade with a third of all girls achieving all A*s and As.

Newly-appointed director of teaching and learning, Deborah Kite, said: "We are developing new learning strategies and focussing on giving our students the appropriate learning tools to maximise their individual potential. These results show the success we are securing with this approach.”

A total of 23 per cent of the further maths group achieved A^, which is higher than an A* and 77 per cent of the group achieved A^ -A.

Further success was had in Latin, where nearly a third of the cohort took the subject and 91 per cent achieved A*-A.

All other subjects had well over half the grades as A* to A.

Principal Karl McCloskey said, “Marist Girls are multi-skilled and extremely talented. The Marist School provides an environment of academic challenge and personalised pastoral support in order to ensure that girls develop into high achievers and well-rounded individuals, I’m so proud of each and every girl.

"As father of a daughter receiving her GCSE results with this Year Group I am absolutely thrilled by the levels of success witnessed today.”

Karas Paballo was one of the top performers this year with one A^, 11 A*s and one A, Molly Chung achieved 12A* and one A and Natasha-May Bowles received 11A*s.

Dione Gowing, Zara Luxton, Shaunagh McSweeney and Eleanor Taylor received 10 or above A*s along with other top grades.