A CLUTCH of students from a top York state secondary school have secured places at Oxford and Cambridge.

Fulford School sixth form is celebrating the success of six students getting Oxbridge offers. They are: Tim Brown, who has an offer to study geography at Oxford; Charlotte Foreman who wants to study modern and Medieval languages at Cambridge; Sam Festenstein, human, social and political science at Cambridge; Tom Flatters, material science at Oxford and Joel Galilee who has an offer to study history at Cambridge.

As previously reported, Fulford, which has about 1,400 pupils and is rated outstanding by Ofsted, and became an academy on January 1, becoming the founder member of the South York multi-academy trust (MAT).

The school will keep it’s name and the timetable for joining this year is: Archbishop of York’s CE Junior, September 1; Danesgate, March 1; Dunnington CE Primary, February 1; Elvington CE Primary, June 1; Lord Deramore’s Primary, November 1; Naburn CE Primary, October 1, St Oswald’s CE Primary TBC and Wheldrake with Thorganby CE Primary May 1.

Fishergate and Escrick CE primaries are also lined up to join the new MAT in the next 12-18 months, which will make it the largest multi-academy trust in the city.

The process of Fulford converting to academy status has been going on for sometime with Mrs Savage first writing to parents to announce the decision following a consultation in December 2016.

Tim Morris, director of sixth form and assistant head teacher, said of the Oxbridge success: “These students have displayed a great deal of talent, resilience and focus, and fully deserve to have received these offers.

“We also wish to congratulate all our other students who are receiving university offers, work related placements and apprenticeships.”

In November last year The Press reported that the Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2018, placed Fulford School at eight in the top ten state secondary schools in Northern England.