STUDENTS let their hair down after finishing their GCSE exams with a glamourous prom evening at the Oxford Spires Hotel.

About 200 pupils from Didcot Girls’ School and the town’s St Birinus School came together to celebrate last Thursday.

It was the first time the schools had got together to organise a prom.

Shannon Deeley, 16, from Didcot, travelled to the dance in a vintage Buick with three friends.

She said: “It was a really good prom.

“It was a brilliant way to wind down.”

Girls school headteacher Rachael Warwick said it was a great party for youngsters who had worked hard to finish their GCSE exams.

She said: “It’s a combination of five years of hard work as they come to the end of their formal school life.”

She said it was the first time the two schools had held the prom together and it had been oversubscribed.

She added: “We thought it made complete sense to make sure there was a St Birinus and Didcot Girls prom.”

l Millie Hawthorne and friends arrived in an open-top Volkswagen Beetle when Abingdon’s John Mason School staged its prom on Friday, June 27, at the Four Pillars Hotel in Sandford-on-Thames to mark the teenagers completing their GCSE exams.

Millie 16, said: “We all had a three-course meal and then after the meal it was purely dancing.

“Everyone got together to dance – including teachers.”