On Friday 6th February the school received a letter from the Minister of State for Schools to notify us that we had been awarded a £5000 prize for how well our pupil premium students did in their GCSE exams. We are extremely proud of this national recognition and it is a credit to the hard work that my colleagues and you do in supporting our students, your children. The progress made by our Year 11 students between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 is the best in North Hertfordshire, second best in Hertfordshire and we are one of the top 90 schools in England showing the greatest sustained improvement in GCSE examination results last year.