WOODBRIDGE High School headteacher Andrew Beaumont has praised his pupils after they achieved yet another bumper year of A-Level results.

Dozens of ecstatic youngsters gathered at the school in St Barnabas Road this morning (Thursday) to celebrate getting onto their first choice university courses - after checking their results online.

Mr Beaumont said his pupils deserved their success after putting in two years of hard work.

He said: "Congratulations are in order to the students on their excellent results.

"It has been a pleasure to see that the hard work of both students and their teachers has been rewarded.

"These results confirm, once again, Woodbridge High School's strong reputation as a leading local comprehensive school."

One of the school's star performers was Lyubomir Georgiev, 18, of Grove Hill, South Woodford, who achieved four A-grades despite speaking English as a second language after arriving in the UK from Bulgaria in 2001.

He said: "I expected to get the grades to be honest, but I'm still really pleased.

"I'm going to Warwick University to study philosophy, politics and economics."

Student Jack Van Gelder, 18, of Darnley Road, Woodford Green, is looking forward to reading product design at Leeds University after getting B grades in Russian, product design and English language.

He said: "I'm over the moon. I needed three Bs to do the course I wanted and I got them.

"I'm looking forward to starting at uni."

Jack will be joined at Leeds University by his friend Mark Walsh, 18, of Gordon Road, South Woodford - who got an A in Theatre Studies and Bs in English language and English literature.

He said: "This was the result I expected, but it is also definitely the one I wanted.

"I'm really pleased, and looking forward to celebrating this properly now."

Full A-Level results from across Redbridge have not yet been published by the council.

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