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Outstanding Oxbridge offers at RGSAO
23 January 2009
Seven boys and two girls from RGS Worcester & The Alice Ottley School are celebrating a sensational start to 2009.
The pupils have beaten off competition from the brightest students in the country to gain university offers from Oxford and Cambridge.
Last year witnessed ten students join Oxford and Cambridge Universities and this year’s numbers show that the school’s academic standards are consistently high. RGSAO pupils have now been offered an impressive total of just under sixty Oxbridge places in the last five years.
The long established Worcester school has a tradition of sending some of the finest students to the country’s top universities. Each year around a hundred pupils progress to higher education on the back of their exam successes and the popular sixth form programme.
James Gibson has been accepted to study PPE at Lincoln, Oxford; Evgeny Kokorev will read Chemistry at Corpus Christi, Oxford and Rowan Skilbeck will study Physics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Successful Cambridge entrants include Peter Bullock who will study Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s, Charlie Greenway who will read Land Economy at Sidney Sussex, Ben Jennings who will study Law at Downing, Will Matthews who will read Veterinary Science at Robinson, Camilla Motteram, who has been accepted to Christ’s to read Physics, and Sarah Higgs who will read Natural Sciences at Robinson College.
“We are delighted for the pupils in achieving such impressive results in such a highly competitive entrance procedure,” commented Andy Rattue, Headmaster of RGS Worcester & The Alice Ottley School.
“These results are a great credit to the young people themselves and also to their teachers, who have devoted a great deal of time and energy to their preparation beyond the confines of the ordinary curriculum.”
“It is especially pleasing to see the diverse range of challenging subjects they are reading. I hope their success and that of RGSAO will encourage other students to apply to Oxbridge,” added Mr Rattue.