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Teachers suffer GCSE tension too - head

Head of Art at Ballakermeen High School Jo Karran

Art head achieves 95% pass rate A-C

It's not just the students who've been waiting with baited breath for GCSE results to flood in - teachers have a share in the tension too.

That's according to the head teacher of Ballakermeen High School Adrienne Burnett - it's set a new school record with an 81 per cent pass rate in mathematics, English was in the high 70s, with science grades also pegged over 80 per cent.

Jo Karran is head of the art department - this is the moment we told her she'd helped her students achieve a 95 per cent pass rate at grades A-C:

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