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2 ACADEMIC
Top Gcse Geographer
Hoping to join next year’s cohort of Oxbridge
successes is Lower Sixth pupil Laeticia Junanto who
has been awarded a prize for achieving the highest
raw mark in the 2016 AQA GCSE Geography A
examination taken this summer.
Every year the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) awards prizes
to geography students who are the highest scoring candidates in
public examinations. Steve Brace, Head of Education and Outdoor
learning at the Royal Geographical Society, described Laeticia’s
award as “an outstanding achievement.” Mrs Victoria Talbot, Head
of Geography at Bancroft’s, said, “I have taught Laeticia every year
since the Removes, when she joined the School and am currently
teaching her at A Level. She is a talented, hardworking young
geographer.” Laeticia, who would like to go to Cambridge University
after A Levels, said that the award was quite unexpected!
Best Ever Oxbridge Year?
This year sees Bancroft’s “best ever”
crop of Oxbridge offers. A fantastic
twenty four offers have been made
to members of the current U6,
with OB Georgie Atkinson bringing
the total to twenty five. A trawl
through past records suggests that
no year group has ever achieved
better.
Seventeen offers have been made from
Cambridge Colleges and eight from Oxford.
Courses are wide ranging, with offers to
read English, Maths, Economics, History,
Geography, Sciences. This year, however,
Engineering is particularly well represented
with seven offers and five students have
received offers to read Medicine.
As a year group this is one of the most
academically successful we have seen for a long
while, achieving stellar results in their GCSEs
in 2015. We had hoped for good things from
them, but this number of offers exceeds our
expectations. Such success is not achieved
without a good deal of hard work from the
pupils as well as hours of dedicated support
and encouragement from their teachers,
who have provided guidance, extra tuition
and interview practice over the past months.
Members of staff deserve special thanks for all
their work and encouragement.
The successful applicants are as follows:
CAMBRIDGE:
Fola Amuludin
English
Murray Edwards
Nivethan Balakulendran
Engineering
Magdalene
Matthew Davies
Economics
Girton
Abishek Ghosh
Medicine
Gonville & Caius
Sujil James
Medicine
Robinson
Amy Kelly
Natural Sciences (Physics)
Sidney Sussex
Elliot Krishek
Engineering
St John’s
William Layzell-Smith
Engineering
Corpus Christi
Thuza Naing
Chemical Engineering
Gonville & Caius
Ben Norris
Natural Sciences (Biology)
St Catherine’s
Christina Okafor
Medicine
St John's
Ilakya Prabhakar
Engineering
Queen’s
Rishan Rashid
Medicine
Girton
Jay Ruaux
Engineering
Sidney Sussex
Aarya Sajilal
Medicine
King’s
Sayon Uthayakumar
Maths
Christ's
Georgie Atkinson (OB)
History
Lucy Cavendish
OXFORD:
Becky Hampson
Geography
Hertford
Julia Jones
Geography
St Edmund Hall
Oviya Kumanan
Maths
St Edmund Hall
Tom Oliver
Engineering
Worcester
Alex Pentecost
Biochemisrty
Open
Mahidiyah Rahman
History
Oriel
Arun Soor
Maths
St John's
Matthew Willoughby
Engineering
Exeter