Lancing Pupils celebrate A Level Results Day 2022

Lancing College’s A Level results for 2022 would be extremely pleasing in any year, with A*-B results for the current cohort topping 78% and with 55% of all grades A*-A. That this has been achieved in the face of the pandemic disrupting studies nationwide, is a testament to the hard work and resilience of Lancing’s outstanding students and a credit to the dedicated support of the entire College staff who kept teaching and learning on track and seamlessly through the pandemic, national lockdowns and all their attendant pressures.  

Highlights include: 

• The average Lancing student this year achieved a UCAS point score equivalent to AAB at A Level with some truly stellar performances (outlined below in case studies).  
• 75% of Lancing’s Sixth Formers achieved at least one A* or A grade in their Sixth Form subjects, an extremely impressive showing.  
• Well over a fifth of students managed to attain a clean sweep of A* and A grades with 20% of these gaining an incredible clean sweep of A* grades.  
• Mathematics remains Lancing’s most popular subject with well over half of the 71 students in the Upper Sixth gaining A or A* grades this year. Further Mathematics and half of all Further Mathematics grades at A or A* too.  
• English and History have proved hugely popular and successful too with impressive swathes of A*s and many students going on to study these subjects at top universities.  
• Extended Project Qualification success continues unabated with every candidate this year achieving A or A* in the subject.  
• Three medical offers and one veterinary medicine applications led to secure places, continuing Lancing’s fine run, a product of its outstanding biomedical and veterinary preparation programme.  

Dominic Oliver, Head Master said:  

‘Given the significant disruption to everyone’s learning due to the pandemic, getting Lancing’s students safely and successfully to the next stage of their education has been paramount. This has been a hard road for them, but they have overcome the difficulties in fine style. We are delighted with the incredible success they have achieved: a heartfelt bravo to them all.   

Lancing prides itself on working individually with every student, getting them into the best universities for their chosen subjects. The top university destinations for Lancing students this year are top 100 institutions globally: Imperial College, UCL, Edinburgh, King’s College, London, LSE, Bristol, Birmingham, Durham and Sheffield. Students continue to be especially well supported with their applications for Medicine and Veterinary Medicine despite the ever more competitive nature of these courses.’ 

Our students continue to be adventurous, going beyond the UK in search of places at the world’s best universities. This year our dedicated team worked with 11 Lancing pupils all of whom received offers from a diverse range of overseas institutions, including: University of Amsterdam; University of North Carolina, USA; University of Michigan, USA; Melbourne University, Australia; IE University, Madrid; Polimoda Fashion School, Florence; The Hague; McMaster University, Canada; Pennsylvania State University, USA; University of Toronto, Canada; and the University of Queensland, Australia. 

Similarly, the individual support offered at Lancing throughout the Sixth Form enables pupils to develop and follow specific interests as demonstrated in the wide range of courses studied. This year pupils are leaving to study subjects ranging from Economics, Mathematics, History and Biochemistry to Sports Management, Actuarial Science, Dietetics, Criminology and Zoology. 

Some of our pupil success stories include:

Ruth Banfield is the last of four outstanding siblings to have been through Lancing Prep Hove and Lancing College. Ruth, an outstanding artist, goes on from Lancing, having scored a clean sweep of three A*s to take up an unconditional place at York St John University to read for a degree in Illustration. Ruth is a brilliant student who follows siblings who Lancing has enabled to travel their own paths. Joseph, her elder brother, graduated with a first class degree from Durham in Politics while Samuel, the next oldest, went on to read Mathematics at Oxford and Mary, Ruth’s sister, is now studying Medicine. It is wonderful to see Ruth pursue her own passion while maintaining the family tradition of academic excellence.  

Raphael Bellamy Plaice leaves Lancing with an outstanding three A* grades in History, Religious Studies and Latin. Raphael was a leading choral and academic scholar at Lancing and formerly BBC Young Chorister of the Year. He goes on to Durham University to read for a degree in History and to be a choral scholar.   

Ben Bolton, a former student of Lancing Prep Worthing, leaves the College with an outstanding set of A Level results. Ben scored A* grades in Mathematics and Physics along with an A grade in Chemistry and a B grade in Further Mathematics. Ben continues Lancing’s very strong tradition in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, going on to read for a degree in Robotics, Mechatronics and Control Engineering at Loughborough University.  

Kate Bradshaw leaves Lancing with a very pleasing crop of A Levels as well as outstanding contributions to school sport and dance. Part of Lancing’s cosmopolitan international community, she goes on to the University of Amsterdam to read for a degree in Economics. 

Aimee Caddick leaves Lancing College after an exceptional school career. Aimee joined Lancing’s Sixth Form from school in Dubai and is one of the College’s leading writers. She leaves with an A* in English Literature along with A grades in both History and Politics. Aimee goes on to the University of Exeter.

Charina Grant is one of Lancing’s leading scholars and a former student of Lancing Prep Worthing. Following a stellar career at Lancing where, in addition to her academic excellence, she was a leading sportswoman and School Prefect, Charina goes on to Bristol University to pursue a degree in Marketing with hopes of pursuing a corporate career.

Vanessa Hansmann scored an exceptional clean sweep of A* grades in English Literature, Mathematics, Politics and Spanish. Having joined Lancing for Sixth Form from school in Spain, Vanessa is one of our ever-growing list of students looking beyond the UK for university, having secured a place to study at the elite University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an academic scholarship.   

Eliza Hawley scored outstanding A*s in English Literature and Music as well as an A grade in History. Eliza remains in the county for her undergraduate studies, progressing after an exceptional academic career at Lancing to the University of Sussex for a degree in English and Media Studies.

Verity Leggett leaves Lancing after an outstanding school career as both a student and equestrian sportswoman. Following in the footsteps of her brother, Ivan, a former Lancing student, and now studying to be a vet, Verity leaves Lancing to pursue her passion for matters equine to study for a degree at Harper Adams University in Veterinary Physiotherapy. Both Verity and Ivan have been stalwarts of Lancing’s Equestrian Centre and our riding and eventing teams.   

Benjamin Millward-Sadler has been an outstanding academic and choral scholar at Lancing as well as a School Prefect. He follows in the footsteps of his sister, Sophie – who graduated this year with a first class honours degree in History – to the University of Cambridge where he will study at Corpus Christi College for a degree in Geography. Ben has also been awarded a Choral Scholarship.    

Shirin Mirzayasheva leaves Lancing after five years as a distinguished academic scholar and, this year, as Head Girl. Shirin goes on to a degree in Medicine at the University of Keele.

Mridul Shrestha leaves Lancing after a stellar career as an academic scholar in order to attend Churchill College at the University of Cambridge to read Natural Sciences.

Anna Tatevosian leaves Lancing after an excellent academic career where she has also established herself as one of Lancing’s leading writers. She goes on to study English Literature at the University of St Andrew’s having gained an exceptional clean sweep of A* grades at A Level in English Literature, French and Psychology. 

About Lancing College

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