Thursday evening was the annual Key Stage 4 prizegiving at St Barts.
The address was given by Simon Stevens, the President of United Health International who is a former head boy of the school, and son of the school chaplain. I sat next to his very proud mother.
St Barts certainly had much to celebrate - they had had their best set of exam results ever. It is easy for older people to be cynical about the ever increasing pass rate in GCSEs (they have gone up every year since I took mine 26 years ago), but there is no doubt that many of todays teenagers put a huge amount of effort into their school work and revision - I think they have a much stronger work ethic than in my day.
Forty five pupils achieved an amazing 8 or more A or A* passes, and one lad, Christopher West, had a staggering 14 A* passes. The school also had three of the top 5 English Literature GCSE results in the country (out of more than 350,000).
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