in may and june, so, yeah, it s just been really tough. anything for mejust being a pass is going to, like, really make me obviously happy but if i get anything better than a pass, considering the year i ve had, i m going to be extremely happy with myself. replacing traditional exams with teacher assessed grades has brought many challenges and some criticism. last year saw a record rise in pupils getting top grades in their gcses. but this head teacher says talk of further grade inflation this year is unhelpful. they sat a number of assessments that had to show a typicality of their performance over all of those assessments and over a wider body of work as well. i think, to take anything away from our young people today is unfair and it discredits the huge amount of work that s been put in by them, their families and their teachers to get them through what s been an incredibly challenging time. the government says students were assessed only in what they have been taught and it s given
gcses. .. 0 levels! shakespeare s quote, gcses. 0 levels! shakespeare s quote, all the world stage. look at this for a stage, this will be the stage for the take off for the dragon. try to imagine this, a huge profit as large as a double decker bus, carried by puppeteers and actors will possess through plymouth over the weekend and on sunday evening it will transform into a giant kite with a 20 metre wingspan, and take off across the plymouth home and plymouth sound. it promises to be quite a spectacle. there be dragons here in plymouth. this performance, known as the hatchling, is part outdoor theatre, part engineering challenge, part natural history experiment. but in total, it s unique, a world first. the idea came from the fact that dragons are found everywhere in the world, so no matter who you are and where you re from, there s probably a story that belongs to you. and i really wanted to unite people after this really difficult time to come out and see something magical.