Confidence for life at Durham.

Martin George AS we begin a new academic year, we once again look back with pride and forward with confidence.

Our recently departed Upper Sixth students have achieved great things, with virtually all now holding offers from universities for this year or next.

Our new Upper Sixth achieved some of the best AS results recorded, whilst our GCSE results were our best ever, those successful pupils having now been joined in the Lower Sixth by over 20 new students from other schools.

In sport, music, drama and across the massive range of co-curricular activities available here, successes have been coming in thick and fast - even during the summer holidays.

All this is achieved within the context of a warm, supportive and caring community, one which really is a family.

This strong sense of "belonging" is something which we believe marks us out and helps to enable all our pupils to achieve success.

We are determined to provide for all our pupils, from age three through to 18, a balanced blend of progress and tradition, of academic success and wider educational opportunities, of care and self-reliance.

We believe that Confidence for Life absolutely sums up what we aim to achieve.

I hope that you will come and pay us a visit in the near future, for only if you do so can you really get a good feel for what makes Durham School so special and see for yourself why we are so proud of our 600 years of history and confident about the history yet to be made.

Martin George is headmaster of Durham School

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CELEBRATIONS ALL ROUND GCSE results day at Durham School. GREAT LIFE Above, the Durham School Rowing Club Eight on the River Wear by the school's boathouse. Below, headmaster Martin George with pre-prep pupils.