PUPILS and staff at an award-winning secondary school in Harrow are celebrating the institution's best ever GCSE results as improvements are made for a sixth successive year.

Canons High School in Shaldon Road, Edgware - the reigning  Evening Standard Schools  Award for Outstanding Achievement winner - saw an 11 per cent increase in the percentage students who achieved five or more subject passes at A* to C.

In 2011, 84 per cent reached this benchmark at the academy but this year it was 95 per cent.

The percentage of students gaining 5 or more passes at grades A* - C including English and mathematics is 64 per cent, up from 57 per cent last summer.

Lynn Rowlands, headteacher, said: “We are absolutely thrilled with the excellent results.

"I am delighted for our students and for our team of staff who have helped our students toachieve so highly.

"I would like to thank our dedicated staff and our wonderful students fortheir hard work and commitment”.

She highlighted some individual high achievers: Soleiman Anwary earned nine A*s and two As, Kabiliny Ratnasingam got seven A*s and four As and Jo Jo Xia secured seven A*s and one A.

Harrow Council's portfolio holder for children, schools and families, Councillor Brian Gate (Labour) said:

“May I congratulate all of Harrow’s students in all of our secondary schools, academies and special schools on the hard work that they have put in to achieve these excellent results.  

"This is a milestone achievement for many of our young residents and we should also give great credit to all of the staff as well as all  parents and carers.

"All of Harrow’s residents, I hope, will take pride in the standards of educational attainment in Harrow’s schools.”