STUDENTS at Wellington School were last week discovering the rewards of two years of hard study as A Level results were announced.

There were joyous scenes at the school where the teenagers arrived to await the unveiling moment.

Headmaster Eugene du Toit with Wellington School Students (Alain Lockyer)

They were the first students to sit exams for two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, during which time grades were awarded via teacher assessments.

Wellington School student Catherine Rayson is off to Oxford University (Alain Lockyer)

Many at the school will now go on to their first or second choice of university while others have found work places on the back of their projected results.

(Alain Lockyer)

Nationally, a record 44.8 per cent of students received grades A or A* in 2021, compared with 38.6 per cent in 2020, and 25.5 per cent in 2019.