AN ENTIRE class at Malmesbury School have failed their Hair and Beauty VTCT certificate despite passing their exams. 

Pupils were left distraught after they opened their brown envelopes on GCSE results day to discover a U grade yesterday morning. 

After checking the breakdown of results, all the pupils had actually passed their exams but their coursework had let them down. 

One pupil Molly Blake lost out on her course place because of the U and her mum Hay is furious. She said: “Molly is absolutely gutted because it’s meant she can’t do the extended course element that she wants to do at college.

“She needed three Cs to do the enhanced part of the course but only has two.

“If she’d have had that coursework for hair and beauty that would’ve given her the third C.

“She passed the exam, it’s the coursework side of it which she worked damn hard on."

Mrs Blake said her daughter was asked to search for the coursework at home after being told by the teacher that she did not have it.

“Molly said she knew she’d handed it in but we turned the house upside down”, she said.

“It wasn’t here because she did hand it in and she found out throughout the day on social media that everybody else on the course had failed too.”

Emma Mathews, who daughter Katerina was also on the course, said: “She passed all her GCSEs except this one where she got a U.

“I don’t understand how she got it, she was happy in the class. I’ve spoken to other parents and found out the whole class has failed.”

Headteacher Tim Gilson said: "I can confirm that there appears to be an issue with the results in the Hair and Beauty course. We are in touch with the exam board who are working on this as we speak.

"It is not the case that coursework has been lost and I can confirm that all coursework handed in by students has been submitted and marked. This is a brand new qualification and I have been assured that the board are looking into this urgently. I hope to have more information this afternoon and we will contact all the students involved today.”

If your child has been affected please call Jessica Wells on 01225 773645.