Visually Impaired Student, Alice achieves Grade 5 in GCSE maths!

Hard work­ing stu­dent Alice Greswell defied adver­si­ty and achieved an out­stand­ing grade 5 in her GCSE maths exam.

Alice, with sup­port from our Learn­ing Sup­port team was able to com­plete her exam which asks her to inter­pret shapes and graphs, and mea­sure­ments of angles despite her visu­al impairment.

Not want­i­ng to let her phe­nom­e­nal achieve­ment go with­out a wor­thy cel­e­bra­tion, Lec­tur­er Tim Arthey, with sup­port from Visu­al Impair­ment Coor­di­na­tor Jane Read­fern-Gray, launched a brief for Graph­ic Design stu­dents to pro­duce a cer­tifi­cate that would appeal to Alice’s stronger sens­es, a cer­tifi­cate she could read through touch.

Stu­dents made use of a 3D and laser print­ers, paper sculpt­ing and fab­rics to cre­ate their cer­tifi­cates, with win­ner Daniel Cole­man pro­duc­ing an embossed ver­sion of the col­lege logo; which was the first time Alice was able to inter­pret what the Col­lege’s logo was like.

Graph­ic Design run­ners up includ­ed Lil­lie-Mae Dean, Har­ry Lewis, Joseph Missin & Nadia Bar­cyzn­s­ka who also pro­duced cer­tifi­cates recog­nis­ing Alice’s out­stand­ing effort and achievement.