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Did you make the right decision?

Did you back the right horse when it came to early GCSE entry? Our headteacher diarist explains how his school fared.

So many headteachers will have returned after half-term wondering whether they “backed the right horse”.

Did those of us who felt that early GCSE exam entry was the correct decision for our students, despite the government’s late intervention to exclude the results from counting in performance league tables, get it right?

Did our students get the results they deserve? Or perhaps those who did not enter early felt relief and are now waiting until the May/June period when some students will have to sit 30 exams!

At my school, the maths results were good and there was palpable relief – in fact there was almost an audible “phew”!

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