Welcome to our LIVE coverage of GCSE results day 2015.

Our reporters and photographers are at schools across the county as thousands of teenagers peer inside envelopes containing the grades they have (hopefully) been waiting for.

Refresh this page for all the latest, and let us know how you got on by sending your results day selfies to news@thekmgroup.co.uk or tweet using #KentGCSEs.

12pm

That's it for another year. Thank you for following our live coverage and congratulations to everyone who collected results today.

Click the below links for a full round-up of results from schools in your area.

Gravesham and Dartford

Maidstone, Malling, Weald, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge

Sittingbourne

Thanet

Shepway

11.54am

More jubilant scenes at Valley Park School in Maidstone as pupils tear open that all-important envelope.

11.24am

With grades like nine A*s and two As, Rahma Mohammed Al-Farsy, 16, was always going to go on to do something equally impressive.

The Wilmington Grammar School for Girls pupils is hoping her grades will allow her to pursue a career as a particle physicist.

11.16am

Bradley Stevenson and Sam Lawford, 16, from the Canterbury Academy, have both won two-year-scholarships at Gillingham Football Club.

They will train there and study for a BTEC level three in sport.

10.54am

10.40am

These girls are literally floating on air after picking up their grades at Hundred of Hoo School.

10.39am

We wouldn't recommend it, but the technique seems to have worked for Dryshti.

Equipped with 10 A*s, she plans to go into medicine after her A-levels.

10.36am

Emotional scenes at St John's in Gravesend.

10.30am

Folkestone School for Girls is thought to have achieved some of the best results in the country.

Among their most impressive is Jorja Hills, who reacts to her top marks here.

10.08am

An impressive group of friends here.

10.02am

Pupils flood into Towers School in Ashford to collect their results. They've probably never looked so eager to go to school!

The emotion almost got too much for these friends, who are visibly thrilled with their grades.

9.59am

Celebrating in style. Well done Mark.

9.52am

9.40am

A refreshingly honest head teacher has refused to engage in "ritualistic spin" about his school's GCSE results, instead criticising an education system that fails non-academic pupils.

Canterbury High School pricipal Phil Karnavas said: "The Canterbury High School has not done as well as I had hoped but will, I suspect, not be the only non selective school in this situation.

"The system seems only to recognise and, therefore, value academic ability. Thus, in it those students whose abilities are academic will do better than those students whose abilities are not.

"Those schools which select exclusively on academic ability will do better academically than those schools that do not."

He added: "We congratulate those students who have worked hard and achieved the government’s benchmark of academic success.

"We are desperately sorry for those students who have worked hard and who have not."

9.37am

Results envelopes are laid out ready and waiting to be picked up by pupils at Valley Park School in Maidstone.

9.31am

As for the national picture, the pass rate has risen again this year - but the number of top grades has fallen for the fourth year in a row.

Almost 70% were between A* and C and 6.6% achieved an A* - a tiny drop of 0.01% on last year.

9.29am

These pupils obviously got the grades they were hoping for at Archbishop's School in Canterbury.

One pupil from the school, budding singer-songwriter Ellie Hunter said: "I'm really chuffed because I want to be a music journalist and I got A in English and music which I will now do at A-level.

"I play piano and write my own songs and my Dad and I are recording them."

9.14am

Lots of smiles and hugs at Highworth Grammar, where 97.8% achieved A* to C grades.

9.07am

Elsewhere, Highworth Grammar School in Ashford is a hive of activity as the envelopes are dished out.

9.04am

These youngsters are keen! They've been queuing since before 8.30am. Hope its worth the wait.