FORMER students attended an annual reunion to celebrate their success.

Colchester Sixth Form hosted a special awards ceremony and headteacher Ian MacNaughton said the students had been very successful.

He said in his speech: “The examination successes you achieved in the summer were really excellent – by both local and national standards.

"The average ‘value added’ results you achieved – the comparison between your package of GCSE results on entry and your package of results on leaving, places your collective successes very significantly above the national average levels.

"Well over 1,000 of our second year college students entered for A Level examinations last summer and the average results you achieved were really excellent, with average results ahead of the achievements of students at all other colleges in Essex and Suffolk."

A large number of last year’s leavers successfully got the grades necessary to progress to degree courses. About 1,000 of last year’s leavers have, or will next autumn, progress to degree courses or other opportunities in the UK or abroad.

Others have found jobs or training opportunities either locally, in London or nationally or internationally.

Former student Dave Coulson was thanked for his entertaining and insightful speech. Dave is the development producer for CBBC, at BBC Media City UK in Salford Quays.

He has worked on Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow, The Graham Norton Show, and Jools Holland’s Hootenanny to name a few.