ST Ambrose College A Level students were seeing stars on A Level results day.

The Hale Barns Catholic Grammar School recorded 68.3% of all grades at A*, A or B, up from 67.4% last year, with 7.2% at the new A star grade.

Top performers included Mantas Malys, 18, from Chapel Road, Atrincham, who got one A star and three As and will read Medicine at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.

Tom Mylchreest, 18, from Mount Drive, Urmston, who got two A stars and three A grades and will now go round the world on a well deserved gap year.

Alastair Smith, 18, from Stanley Road, Heaton Moor, who got five straight As and will read Economics and Geography at Sheffield and Patrick Garvey, 18, from South Downs Road, Altrincham, who got an A star and three As and will read Maths at Cambridge, with an ambition to take a Masters at MIT in Boston.

St. Ambrose College Headmaster Michael Thompson said: “These examination results buck the tired cliché that girls always out perform boys. Our examination results have been consistently excellent over a number of years because our dynamic teaching team adopts a range of creative learning styles meeting the different challenges that boys present.”