GCSE results 2024: Hundreds of thousands to receive results as students' wait almost over

Joanna Kent
BBC South today

They call themselves the Brickie Boys. The group is one of the winners of the BBC's Young Reporter Competition.

On GCSE results day, the boys want to show other young people that you can be successful even without good grades.

Riley, Remus, Muhammad, all 17, and Heath, 16, met for the first time a year ago when they signed up for a summer course in masonry.

Following the course, everyone enrolled in a Level 1 course in bricklaying.

None of the group performed particularly well in school and they didn't take the course too seriously at first, says Remus.

“At first everyone was just joking around and then, I don't know, out of the blue we grew to love it and realized that this is life,” he says.

The course was delivered by ACE Training in Oxfordshire, a not-for-profit provider that provides construction skills to young people – or those not in education, employment or training.

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