Calder House celebrates best ever ESB results
4 July, 2021
93% of pupils achieve the top two grades!
11 July, 2019
Pupils from Calder House have done exceptionally well in this year’s English Speaking Board exams… again!
The ESB exam is an external examination designed to test reading and public speaking skills. Each child has to recite a poem from memory, read aloud from a favourite book, give a talk on a subject of their choice and then answer questions on it – all things that our pupils would have found particularly challenging in the past.
46 pupils took the exam: every single child passed and 27 pupils managed to achieve either a Distinction or a Merit Plus - the two highest possible grades!
Only two pupils did not take the exam this year – one had to pull out when he broke his leg; the other had been at CHS for less than half a term when the exams took place.
“I’d like to congratulate the children, their parents and our staff on these terrific results,” said Mrs Delahay, Head of School. “A lot of hard work goes into preparing our pupils for these exams but it’s all worth it when you get results like these. They remind us all – once again – what are pupils can achieve with the right support and self-belief.”
A man was walking along the beach one day. Ahead he noticed another, older man picking up a starfish that had become stranded on the sand and throwing it back into the sea.
“Why do you bother?” the man asked him. “The beach goes on for miles and countless starfish get stranded every day. You can’t really make a difference.”
The old man looked at the starfish in his hand and then he threw it to safety among the waves. “I can make a difference to this one,” he replied.
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Pupils from Calder House have done exceptionally well in this year’s English Speaking Board exams… again!
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