A Grenfell Tower survivor who fled her home with just her phone and GCSE chemistry revision notes has celebrated gaining an A in the subject among a string of other top grades.

Inês Alves, 16, who sat her chemistry exam hours after her house was destroyed in the blaze was praised yesterday by her teachers at Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith for her “fantastic” results in the face of such adversity.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Ines, who gained A*s, As and equivalent top grades in Maths, Spanish and the sciences, said that “it just goes to show that if you really want something you can get it.”

“The school has been really good, really supportive,” she added. “I’m quite happy with my grades. I wasn’t expecting to get attention for just sitting a GCSE exam, as everyone else did. At the time I just thought it was normal.

“I was on two hours sleep and I had just witnessed my house burning down. But it hadn’t sunk in. Occasionally it popped into my head, [but] I just tried to get distracted by the exam questions.”