PROUD parents and ecstatic teachers filled Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School as students celebrated GCSE results day.

The Latchford-based school enjoyed high attainment in the majority of subjects, with eight, including biology and physics, demonstrating a 100 per cent pass rate.

Head teacher Beverley Scott-Herron said: "We are so proud of all our year 11 students and the grades they have achieved have been through commitment, hard work and dedication to everything we believe in our school.

"We are a family, The Boteler Family- we know our students so well and have been on every step of their journey with them. Now we can celebrate!"

About 20 per cent of the students achieved five or more grades 9-7, with eight of those earning 10 or more.

One of the stand-out pupils was Boteler's high achiever, Lois Smith, who came out with a perfect set of results having secured 10 grade 9s, the equivalent of A**.

She said: “I definitely wasn’t expecting it. It was a lot of hard work.”

The youngster is now heading to Priestley College to study maths, biology, chemistry and English literature.

Mrs Scott-Herron added:"We have had to work so hard to improve expectations, aspirations and standards from where we were in September 2014; our driver being improving the life chances of all our students.

"Sustainable improvement takes time and this is very evident in our results.

"The immeasurable progress that has been observed by so many external visitors to our school is now there for all to see and importantly is now visible in our GCSE results.

"We are the ‘The Boteler Family’ and everyone in our organisation counts.

"All our students have all embraced our vision and live it through their daily practice.

"'High Expectations, High Aspirations and High Standards' are the key to our success and really do matter.

"The Class of 2019 and the staff have put this mantra into practice and succeeded and to see so many happy students who will now be able to follow their dreams, is everything you could hope for as a head teacher."