BOLTON’S ‘new’ school enjoyed the perfect end to a strange academic year.

University Collegiate School, the former UTC Bolton, celebrated a 100 per cent pass rate with students achieving on average B grade.

Headteacher Nicola Glynn said: “As we embark upon our journey as the newly-formed University Collegiate School, we are elated that we have been able to continue our success within the sixth form by gaining another set of fantastic results.

“Our students have been faced with uncertainty during these unprecedented times but we are so incredibly proud of their resilience throughout. I am delighted that their hard work has been rewarded with an amazing set of results.

“We are pleased to say that over 70 per cent of our students have secured destinations to study health sciences and engineering.

“Last year, our results won the award from the School Students and Teachers Network for exceptional student progress in academic subjects, attaining within the top one per cent of Value Added post-16 outcomes in the country.

“This year, we have improved on that record and laid a firm foundation for success for our new 11-19 Academy, University Collegiate School.”

A further breakdown of statistics revealed that 26 per cent of academic grades were A*A, 58 per cent were A*-B, 84 per cent were A*-C and 100 per cent were at A* to C in biology, psychology, geography, computer science, English literature.

Individual successes included Charlotte Gosling achieving AAB, and will be studying Optometry at University of Manchester.

Charlotte said: “I was really nervous and now I am super happy and feel the hard work has paid off and I’m really excited to go to university.

“I didn’t really sleep and was up early to check UCAS and it went down.

“It was a bit weird not sitting exams because I was really preparing to do them and then for them to be cancelled so last minute it was so uncertain what was going to happen

“The college has given me so much support, I wouldn’t have gone anywhere else.”

Irsa Ahmed is going to the University of Salford to study biomedical science after achieving two distinctions and a merit in applied science.

She said: “I was worried and it feels good and a relief to have my results and to be going to university.”