WITHINGTON Girls’ School pupils from the Hale, Sale and Altrincham areas are celebrating excellent GCSE results, with four girls pictured here having notched up an impressive 45 top grades between them - 31 A* grades and 7 A’s being in the unreformed subjects and 6 grade 9-7s in the newly-reformed English papers.

From left to right: Jessica Nield, from Altrincham (including 9 A*, 1 A; and 9); Rosie Harris, from Hale (8 A*s and 2 grade 9); Raphaelle Hoffman-Vagenheim, from Altrincham (including 10 A*s and 8) and Neha Mohanraj, from Sale (including 4 A* and 5 As).