GCSE English students forced to play catch-up after a teacher failed to set vital assignments have achieved good results.
About 30 pupils at the Peele Community College in Long Sutton discovered in April that their teacher had falsified some grades on their controlled assessments after failing to set the work – leading to fears they would not pass their exams this summer.
The problems only came to light after the resignation of the teacher.
But acting headteacher of the school Simon Gilman said the hard work and determination by students and staff had paid off, with a number of youngsters achieving a C grade – as they had been predicted.
He said: “At the time it was reported that we were bringing in external help to ensure the work was all done, but we did it purely internally using the Peele’s own English department.
“The problems with the controlled assessments were rectified within a couple of weeks of returning to school after Easter.
“There was a positive outcome for those students affected as they all achieved the grades predicted.”
Mr Gilman said the school’s English GCSE results were as expected – a 48 per cent A-C pass rate had been predicted and 47.2 per cent achieved.
But he said the school was going to get a handful of students’ exams re-marked in light of the national dispute over GCSE English grades.
Across the country headteachers have claimed that grade boundaries had been changed between exams in January and the summer, resulting in thousands of students not achieving their expected grade in the exam.
Mr Gilman said: “We have not been hugely affected by this at the Peele but we have identified four students who are one mark off achieving a C grade, a further four who were two marks off and another couple who were just three away.
“We are in the process of looking at whether by getting their papers re-marked those students could possibly achieve a C.
“Fortunately it hasn’t been as big an issue here as in some schools where I have heard some headteachers quoting a figure of 15 per cent of students being affected.”