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A Ukrainian teenager who solely began studying English two years in the past plans to rejoice getting his GCSE outcomes with pizza and a brand new laptop sport.
Roman, 16, got here to Coventry with mum Svetlana after Russian forces gave them a day to depart the town of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine.
He sat exams in 5 topics at West Coventry Academy, together with maths, English and development, and hopes to grow to be a automobile mechanic.
“I’m undoubtedly treating my son with no matter he desires,” Svetlana mentioned, after he opened his outcomes envelope dwell on BBC CWR, having, she defined, began “from the underside” studying English.
When the household left Ukraine they fled to Poland, gaining a visa to maneuver to the UK.
“The envelope does not matter to me,” Svetlana mentioned of the outcomes. “I’m already pleased with him, it was a fantastic job.”
His highest grade was a 3 in maths, the equal of a D beneath the previous GCSE grading system.
Roman mentioned: “When I got here right here I don’t know English I simply know ‘good day’ and ‘bye’.
“Now I can communicate English with my pals, with my auntie, with my brother.”
The car-obsessed teen mentioned he had finished higher in his GCSEs than he anticipated and was wanting ahead to enrolling at Coventry College to review automobile mechanics.
“I finished my finest, my easiest – all the things is best than I would love,” he defined.
He described Coventry as “a fantastic metropolis” and predicted he can be “a fantastic mechanic”.
A tearful Svetlana mentioned she would name to replace her dad and mom immediately, who had chosen to stay in Sumy.
“They’re nonetheless in [danger],” she mentioned. “We name them day-after-day however actually frightened about them.”
