St George’s Student Achieves Highest Mark in Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards

St George’s International School Luxembourg has announced that one of their Sixth Form students received an Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award last year for achieving the highest mark in Media Studies.

St George's student Harriet achieved the highest mark in the world last year in Media Studies, an achievement which led to her receiving an award from Cambridge Assessment International Education to acknowledge her outstanding performance in the Cambridge examination series.

Harriet scored 95% on her coursework unit and then achieved 100% on her AS exam, a combined score higher than any other student in more than 40 countries around the world where the Cambridge International Media Studies A-Level is taught. Cambridge places learners at the centre of their international education programmes and offers qualifications that are inspired by the best in educational thinking. 

The Secondary Head Teacher and Vice-Principal of St George’s International School praised Harriet’s exceptional effort. Mr Fleet said: “I’m absolutely delighted to have a St George’s student recognised again with such a prestigious award; congratulations to both Harriet and Mr Burrowes, our Media Studies teacher”. 

St George’s Media Teacher, Mr Burrowes, added: “To begin with, Harriet was quite daunted by the technology side of the course, but once the filming started to flow her editing skills quickly developed, and I’m thrilled that this is now a subject she will carry on into university and beyond". 

Harriet received her Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award at a school ceremony earlier this week. She said: “This genuinely came as a shock to me! I really struggled to meet deadlines throughout the year, but the support from my teachers was fantastic and really kept me going when I was toiling. The sense of accomplishment that emerges from a challenging filming and editing process is huge! This award has already opened doors for me – I’ve had an early offer from Goldsmiths University! I’m continuing to expand my media horizons too, picking up on some of the often provocative theory we cover to read books such as Judith Butler’s classic queer theory in “Gender Trouble”, but also keeping my hand in with industry experience – we now have a monthly Media show on Luxembourg’s Radio Ara!”