AN EMINENT Wordsworth scholar joined pupils, staff, parents and governors to celebrate the achievements of a South Lakeland school.

At the Lakes School in Troutbeck Bridge’s annual awards night, head teacher, Dr David Selby, said it had been a year of individual triumphs and all-round success.

“Over the past few years, the Lakes School has developed considerably, that development will continue, and continue because of the work of everyone associated with the school,” he said. “That work is shaped by determination for each of us to achieve our full potential. The young people we see before us today have proved that they can do that - the challenge to all of us is to use their example and for each of us to achieve our full potential in our own part of our wider community.”

This year’s A-Level results certainly gave cause for celebration, with the school identified as the second highest achieving school in South Lakeland.

GCSE students also matched 2008’s record-breaking grades, with high-flyer, Dennis Jackson, achieving 12.5 A* GCSE grades, as well as and securing As in AS level critical thinking and computing. As well as praising pupils for their academic success, the awards ceremony also celebrated the school’s sporting, theatrical and artistic achievements and growing links with the local and international community.

Highlights included a recent production of Sweeney Todd, which was compared favourably to the West End production, an expedition to Morocco and the continued success of the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.

After thanking this year’s special guest, Michael McGregor, director of the Wordsworth Trust, Dr Selby said: “The Lakes School is truly the school for our community - we link through our location with history - Wordsworth may well have attended here if he had been a teenager now.”