The progress made by students in their GCSEs at SRS is again greater than that made by students of the same ability nationally. Staff, students and their families are quite rightly celebrating results, with 62% gaining a standard pass (9-4) in GCSE Maths and English and 41% achieving

It’s breaktime at Sydney Russell school in Dagenham, east London, on the day before national offer day, when primary school pupils find out whether they have got into their first choice of secondary school, and the students in their emerald green blazers begin to emerge from all direc