Some think that children have to go to Rugby, Eton or Charterhouse to get a good, solid education.

Not so.

Just ask Euan Allen, who yesterday picked up his GCSE results and found he had earned 10 As a B and a C.

Those results were remarkable enough by anyone's standards, but the 16-year-old achieved success at the troubled Peers School in Littlemore, which only came out of special measures in January.

He was one of 150 students at the school who, according to headteacher Lorna Caldicott, have got their "hunger for success" back.

Forget the notion that exams are getting easier, forget the argument that you only get a good eduction if you pay for it, because the truth is that hard work pays.

Euan could have kicked his heels and drifted through school as some of his colleagues did, but he rolled his sleeves up instead.

Peers has had some well-documented troubled times, but in Lorna Caldicott they have a head who has transformed the school in a short space of time.

Yesterday the school beat tough exam targets set by the Government.

There are plenty of question marks that remain over academy status, but whatever the future holds for the school we hope yesterday's good news will be the springboard for more success.