The John Bentley School are celebrating this year's A-level results with 83 per cent of their students heading off to university in September. 

The sixth formers nervously waited outside the sixth form building in Calne to collect their envelopes this morning and the majority left feeling happy with their results. 

Eighteen-year-old Emily Ramsay, who achieved straight A's in Chemistry, Mathematics and Further Maths as well as a B in Biology, said: "I am going to be studying Chemistry at Imperial College London with a research year abroad and I can't wait. I want to go to the States for my research year."

Caoimhe Kelly, who got A*AA in Mathematics, Further Maths and Physics, was happy with her grades after she had secured her spot to study Maths at University College London this year. 

"I am a bit scared but excited," said the 18-year-old. "I am looking forward to meeting new people and being in a big city. I grew up in Calne and I love London - I visited the university three or four times!" 

Ollie Richardson, who got AAB in English Literature, Geography and Biology, said he cannot wait to go to Devon for a week of surfing with his friends now that the weight of being accepted into Cardiff to study Marine Biology had been lifted off his shoulders. 

Dan Evans also said it was the "best birthday present ever" to find out he got into Oxford Brookes University to study History and Politics on his eighteenth birthday. 

Nearly 40 per cent of students secured grades at A*, A, B or equivalent with 99 per cent of those grades ranging from A*-E. 

Principal John Tudor said: "These outstanding results are down to three factors; the hard work and focus of our exceptional students, the endlessly patient support of their parents and of course the dedicated professionalism of the hardest working teaching staff I have ever had the privilege to work with.

"I have no doubt that what sets JBS apart is our strong sense of community built on the relationship between students, parents and teachers."

One student who felt that strong sense of community was Andrew Grabham who had fought back from a collapsed lung in December to attain a Double Distinction star in BTEC Information Technology and an apprenticeship with Porsche. 

Justin Savery, acting director of Post 16, said: "Yet again, our students have shown that they have the drive and determination to succeed. I am confident that they will grasp the new opportunities available to them and go on to even greater success in the future."