SQUEALS of delight almost drowned out the bleep of mobile phones as pupils rushed to spread the good news about their GCSE results.

And the news was good in schools and colleges in Fareham and Gosport although not all students scooped masses of As and to reach the top of their class.

But pupils at Stubbington's Baycroft School, which caters for children with learning difficulties, worked especially hard to gain GCSE success.

Deputy head teacher Valerie Thrift, said: "It is sometimes easy to over-look the achievement of our students, but they work so hard for their results against difficulties."

Twenty three Baycroft pupils passed GCSEs. Seven of those obtained grade C and above.

Kate Denholm from Gosport's Brune Park Commmunity School not only won herself five As and five straight As, but also scored the top marks in a law GCSE she studied in her own time.

Mark Roe, head at Brookfield School in Sarisbury Green, said:

"We are very proud of what the pupils and staff have achieved especially not long after an Ofsted visit.

"Research by Huddersfield University shows that results tend to go down following an Ofsted report, but we are very pleased that our results have not only stayed the same, but have improved."

Results from Brookfield showed that 97 per cent of pupils passed 5 or more GCSEs with grades A to G, while 60 per cent passed with grades above C.

The headteacher of Fareham's Henry Cort School, Paul Fielon, said the school's results were a "credit to the pupils and staff", with 41 per cent passing at C and 98 per cent gaining at least one pass at grades A to C.

Cams Hill, also in Fareham, hit the high spot in the area by achieving a 99.45 per cent of passes in the A to G category.

Headteacher David Wilmot said: "The pupils here have worked really hard."

Cams pupil Susan Bain did especially well, scooping one A, seven As and one unconfirmed B. The school was still waiting for results to come through for modern languages and IT.

He added there had been tears from some students earlier in the day, but these had mostly been a mixture of stress and relief rather than disappointment.

Portchester Community School was among local schools with a high success rate, with 42.5 per cent of students passing with grades A to C. A total of 98 per cent passed at grades A to G. The high 98 per cent figure was also shared by Henry Cort School, Fareham.

Fareham College full-time and part-time students also did well with an overall result of 61.74 per cent passing at A to C, up by over two per cent on last year's figure of 59.41 per cent.

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