A-level results day 2022: Live updates as students across Leeds receive their grades

Here are some of our favourite pictures from the day as pupils across the city got their results:

Woodkirk Academy principal Tim Jones said both students and staff at the school should be proud of what the results they have achieved this year.

“They are the result of a huge amount of hard work, resilience and a commitment to excel in the face of the challenges presented throughout the study towards these qualifications,” he said. “I am delighted for our students and I wish them all the very best for the future; I look forward to hearing about their successes.”

Warwick-Giles, vice principal and director of sixth form, added: “There has been much talk in the media of significantly lower grades and comparisons to previous years being impossible.  We ask our students to be the best they can be and I urge them to consider the grades attained relative to their individual aims and targets.

“For the huge majority, the outcomes reflect the outstanding work ethic that has been demonstrated and I am delighted that so many have successfully secured a place at their first-choice destination.  Well done to them all and good luck as they move on to pastures new.”

Our reporter Alex Grant, who spent the morning with students at Elliott Hudson College, writes:

The stage was set. Students milling around the auditorium as a buzz of nervous excitement filled the air. A buzz that could mean only one thing – it was exam results day.

A level results day is when dreams can be made and quashed in equal measure – with one open of an envelope determining the immediate futures of many young people.

Students up and down the country as well as across Leeds have been discovering their results today.

At Elliott Hudson College, located next to Leeds’s White Rose Centre, the scene was no different this morning as the hall began to gather with the nervous excitement there for all to see.

This year’s group of students have been widely referred to as ‘Generation Covid’ as the most disrupted school leavers since the Second World War.The challenges the pandemic has brought on for pupils and staff alike, from lockdowns to online learning to cancelled GCSE exams, have been immense.

Lee Styles, Principal at Elliott Hudson paid tribute to his pupils and staff for what they have been able to achieve.

“These young people have been through the most extraordinary educational journey over the past three years – these were the cohort who during their Year 11 were told to go home and that school was finished,” he said.

"They then had a year of high levels of restrictions, remote learning and another national lockdown then they have had to sit external examinations.

"Beyond anything they need to feel that they have done an amazing job, which regardless of what their outcomes are they will have done because they have had to go through an experience that no one ever has before.”

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Georgia Brooks, who collected her results at Elliott Hudson College today, spoke about the dread of actually opening the envelope with her results inside. Good news awaited inside though as she got the grades needed to secure her place to study classics at Cambridge University.

She said: “At first I couldn’t open them. I just sat with the envelope in front of me and when I did open them it just didn’t register. I’m just so happy.”

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