Academic Performance and Scholarships

Common Entrance Results

Common Entrance exams are taken at the end of Year 8. They cover a broad range of subjects and stretch children far beyond what would normally be expected for Year 8 children in many subjects. Some pupils’ assessments are assessed by senior schools, which have the freedom to adapt the mark-scheme, making standardisation and comparisons inexact. Many academically selective senior schools require a score of 55% or even 60% to achieve a ‘C’ grade, with an ‘A’ often representing a very good standard indeed. The 2021 cohort can be proud to have achieved excellent Common Entrance results, in a year when other public examinations were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. An impressive 58% were graded ‘A’ or ‘B’ and 84% of results were above Grade C, itself a challenging level for children of this age. These are excellent results for a non-selective Prep School and to have been achieved during the COVID-19 pandemic. These results reflect the huge progress many children make thanks to a Town Close education.

Scholarships and Awards

We congratulate the pupils who were awarded the following Scholarships in 2021 as follows:

Ampleforth College	Sports Scholarship
Culford School	Swimming Scholarship
Framlingham College	Academic Scholarship
	Sports Scholarship
	Sports Scholarship
Gresham’s School	Sports Award (rugby)
Langley School	Sports Scholarship
	Sports Scholarship
Norwich High School	Academic Scholarship
	Music Exhibition
	Sports Scholarship
	Academic Scholarship
	Academic Scholarship
	Academic Scholarship and Music Exhibition
	Academic Scholarship and Music Exhibition
Norwich School	Academic and Sports Scholarship
	Academic Scholarship
	Academic Scholarship
	Academic Scholarship
	Music Scholarship and Academic Exhibition
	Music Scholarship and Academic Exhibition
	Sports Scholarship
	Headmaster’s Award
Royal Hospital School	Academic and Sports Scholarships