E-ACT City Heights Academy celebrates students’ success at GCSE

Staff and students at E-ACT City Heights Academy in Tulse Hill, South London are celebrating some fantastic achievements in their GCSE results this year.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating after sitting exams throughout May and June. Despite the challenges of the last few years, young people across the country have recorded stunning successes at GCSE, with the students of E-ACT City Heights Academy no exception.  

Staff at E-ACT City Heights Academy have gone above and beyond to ensure their students were as prepared as possible for their GCSEs. In particular, the academy provided regular additional support in tutor time around revision planning, exam techniques and wellbeing for its year 11 students. This extra support paid off with many students achieving excellent results. 

E-ACT City Heights Academy’s strengthening partnership with Dulwich College has also had a positive impact. Not only has a student secured a prestigious Sixth Form place there but this year’s year 11 students have also benefitted with visits to Dulwich College for additional learning opportunities.

Among this year’s success stories at E-ACT City Heights are twins Charlie and Max Courtney. Charlie has secured a place at Dulwich College to study further maths, physics and economics, while Max is going to Stansted Airport College to study aeronautical engineering.

E-ACT City Heights’ high performers include:   

• Charlie Courtney, who achieved five grade 9s, six grade 8s and one grade 6 and will attend Dulwich College Sixth Form to study further maths, physics and economics
• Max Courtney, who achieved nine GCSEs, including one grade 8, one grade 7 and three grade 6s and will study aeronautical engineering at Stansted Airport College
• Franklin Adomako, who achieved one grade 9, three grade 8s, four grade 7s and two grade 6s and will continue studying at Charter School
• Jenny Lam, who achieved two grade 8s, two grade 7s and four grade 6s and will study maths and chemistry at Ark Bolingbroke
• Ygor Queiroz Sousa who achieved two grade 9s, three grade 8s, one grade 7 and two grade 6s and will study drama, Portuguese, biology and sociology at La Retaire

Marvin Charles, Headteacher at E-ACT City Heights Academy, said: It’s fantastic to see Charlie secure those superb grades to progress to Dulwich College, and Max achieve what he needs to go on to study aeronautical engineering. These are wonderful opportunities for them both.

“I am incredibly proud of all our amazing students today and want to say well done to them all. I have loved seeing so many happy and smiling faces in our academy corridors today and I know these young people absolutely deserve the grades they’ve received. So much hard work has gone into the results, and it is fantastic to see this rewarded.” 

Tom Campbell, CEO at E-ACT, said:“Congratulations to Mr Charles and his academy on such a great set of results. These are the direct result of a tremendous amount of effort from staff and students at E-ACT City Heights Academy and I am delighted for them all.  

“I want to congratulate all our young people celebrating today. They have worked so hard to get to this point and they should feel very proud of all they have accomplished.” 

Dr Cameron Pyke, Deputy Master External at Dulwich College, added: “Many congratulations to Charlie on his impressive GCSE results! We are absolutely delighted for him and look forward to welcoming him to Dulwich College for Sixth Form. Our partnership with City Heights E-ACT Academy is going from strength to strength with many mutually beneficial academic, co-curricular and professional development opportunities for pupils and staff to connect.”