The Wallace High School Prospectus 2020

The academic year 2018-2019 was
a memorable year for The Wallace High School as the school family settled into the new accommodation provided by our School Enhancement Project, celebrated continued outstanding academic success, achieved “the double” in boys’ hockey and honoured the legacy of our founder by contributing to charities at home and abroad.

For yet another year, the school, achieved record-breaking A level results by raising the A*- C once more to 88%. A minimum of three A* grades was achieved by five students, 29 students attained a minimum of three A*/A grades and a further 15 a minimum of two A*/A grades. We were thrilled when Kirsty Dawson and Julie Yeow secured their Oxbridge places. Kirsty is reading Natural Sciences at King’s College, Cambridge, and Julie is reading Engineering at Lincoln College, Oxford. Hannah Patterson, following her gap year, is reading Music at Saint John’s, Cambridge.

At AS level, in keeping with national trends, the majority of students opted to study three subjects and a significant number of last year’s top GCSE students attained an excellent three A grades which bodes well for A2 and five students attained four A grades. Anna Trimble, for the third successive year, featured in the CCEA Mathematics rankings with a top performance at A2 level in Mathematics whilst Megan Henry featured in A2 Chemistry and Katie Rocks joined our long list of top students in GCSE Journalism. Erin Bailie was placed top in GCSE Art and Design. At GCSE level, 87% of grades were A* – B with two students, Aisling Gardiner and Georgia Nicolls, each achieving 12 A* grades. Over a third of the year group achieved a minimum of eight A grades.