Photo: Professor Stewart and Head of Geology Ian Kenyon

Truro School has won two awards for its performance in Geology exams

The two awards – one for boys and the other for girls – both applied to performance at GCSE in 2009. They were given for Best Points Score in an English School.

The Good Schools Guide explained: ” If a school has won one of our subject awards, it has outranked all other English schools for the subject and exam concerned.” “Teaching is likely to be very good,” they added.

A total of 48 students from a year-group of 117 at Truro School took GCSE Geology last summer, and 28 of them were awarded A* grades.

Head of Geology at Truro School, Ian Kenyon, said he was very pleased with the awards: “The awards were not too much of a surprise as the students were highly motivated and were well prepared for the exams. It’s particularly pleasing to see that the boys and girls did equally well in this subject. It’s been a popular choice here at A-Level at Truro for many years and it was only quite recently that we began offering it at GCSE as well. No doubt Cornwall's rich mining heritage and the outstanding local geology inspired the students to perform so well.”

Professor Iain Stewart of Plymouth University, who is currently presenting the BBC TV series Earth: The Power of the Planet, has ben invited as Special Guest at the school’s Speech Day in July.