ST Mary’s DSG staff, parents and learners were extremely happy with the results the class of 2018 achieved.
“Their results are outstanding and six girls feature in the commendable and outstanding lists. There are 23 instances of our girls achieving in the top 1 per cent in their subject in the country. This is a reflection of the commitment and support that exists at St Mary’s between the teachers, parents and girls. We have again achieved a 100 per cent pass rate and the girls earned 289 distinctions between them,” said the school’s principal, Jonathan Manley.
Special congratulations went to the six learners who, on a national scale, placed in the top 5 per cent of learners who wrote the IEB Examinations.
Achieving this in five subjects are: Nicole Gibbs, Nicola Havenga and Zoë McCathie.
Achieving this in six subjects are: Megan Evans, Hannah Norcott and Emily Strauss.
“This is one of the best set of results in the country and these girls have certainly represented themselves and our school well,” said Manley.
There are also 23 instances of its learners achieving in the top 1 per cent nationally. These were, by subject:
Accounting: Megan Evans; Nicola Havenga; Holly Trott;
Afrikaans first additional language: Nicola Havenga; Annaretha Schoeman
Business studies: Holly Trott
English home language: Emily Strauss; Hannah Norcott
Geography: Emily Strauss; Natasha Ndawo
History: Zoë McCathie; Emily Strauss; Aimee Foord
Isizulu first additional language: Natasha Ndawo; Happiness Zulu; Zoleka Magagula
Life orientation: Kirsti Leaf
Life sciences: Emily Strauss; Jodie Conolly
Mathematics: Hannah Norcott; Hannah Willows
Physical sciences: Megan Evans
Visual arts: Aimee Foord
Of the 700 subject results, 75 per cent were either an A or a B symbol.
“Our average for individual subjects was on average 8 per cent higher than the national average. In the subjects which usually receive more attention in the media and internationally, like mathematics and physical science, we were 9 per cent and 10 per cent above the national average respectively. Our accounting girls’ average was 15 per cent above the national average,” said Manley.
Emily Strauss placed in the top 1 per cent in four subjects and also achieved distinctions in Advanced Programme Mathematics and Advanced Programme English. She ends her school career with 9 distinctions, and 7 of those were above 90 per cent. Hannah Norcott, Zoë McCathie and Megan Evans also took Advanced Programme Subjects and achieved distinctions in these, so they achieved 8 distinctions each.
Annaretha Schoeman, Nicola Havenga, Jessica Spies and Hannah Willows all achieved 7 distinctions.
12 girls achieved 6 distinctions, 4 girls achieved 5 distinctions, 12 girls achieved 4 distinctions, 14 achieved 3 distinctions, 9 girls achieved 2 distinctions and 28 achieved 1 distinction.
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