2006’s record A-level results were a hard act to follow, but this year’s grades were even better. There was an overall A*-C pass rate of 100% [that’s right: 100%], including a best-ever figure of 65% at grades A & B. In fact, almost 40% of grades achieved were A’s.

But what gives us a special sense of pride at Grenville is that, alongside the outstanding and well-deserved successes of our academic high-flyers, the inspired and dedicated achievements of the school’s dyslexic department and its students are no less remarkable.

Robert Bailey, for example, joined us in Year 9 with a diagnosis of dyspraxia and a school report that could charitably be described as pessimistic. Rob has just achieved 3 A’s at A-level and is now at Cardiff University reading History.

Genuinely, we know of no other school in the region - and beyond - who could match Grenville in this regard.