Examinations

Candidate Handbook

Our Candidate handbook is available to view here

Exam Information for Candidates:

Coping with Exam Pressure Information for Parents and Students Preparing to Sit Your Exams Checklist Information for Candidates - Written Examinations Information for Candidates - Using Social Media Information for Candidates - On-Screen Examinations Information for Candidates - Non-Examination Assessments Information for Candidates - Coursework Assessments

Please read the warning/information leaflets below. Failure to comply with these rules may result in disqualification.

Warning to Candidates Unauthorised Items (mobile phones, watches etc.)

For our Examination Policies and all other exams documents, please see here.

Students at Thames Park School are offered GCSE (or equivalent) qualifications from four Exam Boards: OCR, Edexcel, AQA and WJEC. These sites have information about exam dates, past papers, and revision tips.

Results Day 2026 - Year 11 / GCSE

Thursday 20^th August 2026, 9am to 11am

Students are required to collect their own results in person.

If you are unable to collect them yourself, you can:

Have them emailed to you, to your student email address
Email Mrs Farrell to arrange for someone else to collect your results on your behalf. Your results cannot be collected by anyone else without prior written permission from you.

Certificate Collection

Past GCSE Certificates will be available for collection by appointment only. Please email
exams.tss@osborne.coop to arrange.

Please note that any uncollected certificates will be retained by the school for 12 months and then be confidentially destroyed. Awarding bodies do not issue replacement certificates for GCSE qualifications, instead they will ussue you with a certified statement of results and will charge you for this. The charges start at £50 per statement.

Future Pre-Public Examination seasons in 2026/27 (please note, these dates are provisional and are subject to change)

Year 11 – 2nd November to 20th November 2026

Year 11 – 8th February to 5th March 2027

Year 10 – 22nd March to 23rd April 2027

Summer GCSE Exams in 2027

These exams are timetabled to run from Thursday 6^th May to Wednesday 23^rd June 2027, inclusive. ALL students are expected to be available up to, and including the 23^rd June, which is a contingency day.

GCSE Modern Language Speaking exams will be scheduled in April and May.

Contacts:

Mrs Kat Farrell – Exams Manager

Telephone: 01375 470790

email: exams.tss@osborne.coop