Around 300,000 teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland got their A results this morning, six weeks after the last of 800,000 A-level exam papers were sat in the UK.
Figures from this year’s results show the number of students scoring an A*- A grade has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade.
Northumberland Church of England academy trust’s chaplain Sally Milner told Premier if students’ grades weren’t what they were hoping for, not to worry: “There is a huge variety of courses available.
“Sometimes if you don’t get the grades you want for one course, it might be a slightly different course or a foundation degree, or maybe a different institution. Sometimes a couple of years down the line, you look back and see that actually, God was working through that and you realise ‘I’m better off here. I’m happier here. I’m thriving here.’
Part of her role is to support students, whether the grades students received were better, worse or as expected.
She had some advice for parents too, she said: “What they need is somebody to be there to say, I’m here and I’m listening. To hear them tell their story and pass them on to somebody that can help further, but to be there beside them to be with them.
“That’s what Jesus example is, isn’t it? He is there in the thick of it. That’s what the incarnation is about being with us, being beside us, not forsaking…
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