St Mary’s girls achieve top results
St Mary's principal, Jonathan Manley said they could not have achieved such great results without the team work from pupils, teachers and parents.
ST Mary’s has again achieved a 100 per cent Bachelor’s Degree result with an average of 3,48 distinctions per pupil in the 2015 matric examinations.
The national pass rate for the IEB class of 2015 was announced yesterday, (Tuesday, 29 December) as 98.30 per cent.
The 85 girls who wrote matric achieved 296 distinctions between them – this includes two from AP Maths and two from AP English.
Principal of the school, Jonathan Manley, said a special congratulations go to the six pupils who, on a national scale, have placed in the top 5 per cent of pupils who wrote the IEB Examinations.
Carla Johnson, Savannah Verhage and Jessica Wilson achieved this in five subjects. Achieving this in six subjects were Laura Bosman, Kayla Jordaan and Nina Kolev.
”We are also very proud that we have 26 instances of our students achieving in the top 1 per cent nationally, said Manley”. They are: Nina Kolev: Afrikaans; Life Sciences, Mathematics, Music, Physical Sciences.Carla Johnson: Drama, English, History, Life Orientation. Laura Bosman: Life Sciences, Life Orientation, Physical Sciences. Kayla Jordaan: Visual Art, Life Orientation. Nicola Vermonti: Geography. Michaela Williamson: Geography. Jessica Wilson: History. Zine Ntuli: isiZulu. Asanda Nhlumayo: isiZulu. Kelsi Greenwood: Life Sciences. Katelin Coetzee: English. Tegan Haselau: Geography. Christine Gregory: Life Orientation. Ziphizinhle Sithole: Life Orientation. Caylynn Mardon: Life Orientation. Natasha Walker: History.
Manley said he would like to thank every teacher who played a part in the Matric class of 2015’s success.
“It does not start in their final FET phase, it starts in pre-school and each teacher nurtures them and builds on the work of their colleagues until the final matric year.
He said the whole team at St Mary’s should be very proud of their work.
“Our parents deserve thanks too, for their vital role that they have played in educating their daughters. This milestone is a significant one and once reached successfully, enables their daughter to have choices concerning her future. I am confident that they are prepared and ready for the opportunities beyond school,”.
He added that while much of the attention will naturally go to the top achievers,”I want to point out that every single girl achieved a fine set of results; being able to enter a Bachelor’s Degree at university should she want to. One does not usually look at the tail end of the results, but it is worth noting that only three out of more than 600 subject results were under 50 per cent and none were below 40 cent,” said Manley.
