MEDICINE Following our medics gaining places at universities including Cambridge and Imperial last year, Ben Clark secured a place to study medicine at Keele , supported by our resident qualified doctor and applicant mentor, Dr Emily Miller. MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES Having achieved one of the top marks in the country for her Latin GCSE, Xanthe Lawson won a silver medal for the advanced UK Linguists Olympiad . Anjali Pal was highly commended for her entry to the Anthea Bell German Translation competition. The College was selected for the Day of the Dead video competition hosted by Southampton University and the Mexican Embassy, a collaborative production by Year 13 pupils in art, photography and Spanish. Year 12 linguists mentored pupils from local schools to help prepare them for their French GCSE.
MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS
After winning the Great British Dance Off for two successive years Herbie Sleep gained an unconditional place at Laine Theatre Arts where he will be completing the musical theatre course. He is the second pupil from the College to be awarded a place at this prestigious performing arts college in recent years. Lucia Ridley was the first pupil to complete a performance based EPQ, achieving
Matthew Wakefield was awarded a place to read music at Worcester College , Oxford . Alice Younger enjoyed a second season with the National Youth Orchestra , and accepted a place at the Royal College of Music having received scholarship offers from several other leading conservatoires. Harry Evans won a place in the National Youth Music Theatre , Jack Evans in the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and Ben Young at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama . As part of their course, Year 10 drama pupils devised a piece examining the role the pandemic played in worsening inequality, and Year 13 pupils created a piece in the style of The Paper Birds that challenged the failures of the social care system in the UK.
a top mark for her study of the choreographer Jerome Robbins.
SCHOLARS As well as the initiatives run by
departments, the Hayman Society and Casson Society ran scholars trips to Oxford and Cambridge , and hosted talks by a range of academics and other speakers.
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