Sofia Dzhura is celebrating academic success after joining St. John’s School and Sixth Form College, in Bishop Auckland, in Year 10 as a refugee from the war in Ukraine.
And the remarkable student has managed to pass both her Maths Level 4 and English Language Level 4 whilst in sixth form, and she has just received a Distinction in BTEC Business and a Merit in IT.
In her own time, she has been studying Level 3 Chinese, gaining a remarkable score of 283 out of 300 points.
Her childhood dream is to spend a year abroad studying in Shanghai, so her next step will be to take up her Chinese with International Business place at the University of Westminster.
Sofiia says: “I am so happy that life brought me to St. John’s where I met such wonderful teachers and students.”