SMALL class sizes had contributed to a school's "excellent" GCSE results, the principal told parents at a prizegiving evening.

Janet Harrison said teachers at Moorland School in Clitheroe had been able to spend more time with each pupil. "We are a non-selective school and our results place us among the best in the county.

"It would be quite impossible for us to achieve such consistently high passes if they had to be taught in class sizes of 30 or more."

Guest speaker was Peter Butterfield, former editor of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

PRIZEWINNERS

RSA Computer Literacy and Information Technology - Stage 1: S Ahmed, A Atkinson, D Bradley, K Dobson, S Frankland, D Helligso, B Rowbottom, J Unthank, R Warman.

Pitman examinations - English for speakers of other languages: basic A Law; intermediate T Law, J Chu.

Certificate of Achievement J Mulligan. Lower Junior: T Pope Moorhouse number; E Brown Atkinson spelling; A Birtwistle science; C Linander music; W Bailey merit; S Kenyon effort; J Abrahams reading.

Junior: K Heseltine English, Hartley music, girls merit; R Preston maths; M Dobson science; L Floris Cocker spelling; B Watson educational speech and drama; R Preston boys merit; D Whitfield-Freer effort; W Varley good manners. Senior: K Gauntlett Mather maths, Grant history, Ware French, Cocker science, form merit; J Irvine Harper literature, Hartley essay; K Johnston Berner geography, principal's discretion; M Jackson Hartley music; K Rowlands Brazendale speech and drama; J Chu art; T Law Stewart information technology; M Curwen craft, design and technology, form effort; A Rowbottom Marchbank home economics; R Warman Marchbank social behaviour; E Toye form effort; J Clark form merit; N Proudfoot scholar of the year; House Trophy De Lacy.