FUTURE PATHS – WHERE ARE SOME OF OUR UPPER SIXTH HEADING AFTER SCHOOL LIFE?

February 17, 2022

Here at Norwich School, we place a strong emphasis on equipping pupils with the skills that they need for whatever direction they choose to take beyond School life. We believe our extensive co-curricular programme, including the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Young Norfolk Sports Academy, Community Service, Making Musicians and the Gather Arts Festival, reinforces and underpins academic success, and is valued by universities and employers alike. So, with many of our current Upper Sixth beginning to hear from their chosen universities (with 12 pupils successfully achieving Oxbridge offers, having chosen the competitive university route), we reflect on the diverse and varied future paths that our pupils choose on leaving School. 


As well as securing places to study a wide range of courses at universities across the UK, some of our pupils choose to travel further afield to pursue their future path overseas, for example in the USA, Hong Kong and Holland, while others are looking ahead to work-based learning programmes or gap years. 

With offers still coming in, the range and breadth of options and universities this year’s cohort can look forward to is truly impressive and our congratulations to them all as they begin to embark on future paths. 


Medical, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine 
Karthik Prabhu - Medicine - Cambridge
Abigail Hill - Veterinary Medicine - Nottingham, Surrey
Rohan Damodar - Veterinary Biosciences - Surrey
Isabella George - Midwifery - Greenwich
Alice Shaw - Adult Nursing - Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham


Engineering
Benjamin Groat – Aeronautical Engineering – Cambridge, Imperial, Southampton, Sheffield
Flynn Robbins – Aerospace Engineering – Sheffield
Bryony Brierley – Architectural Engineering – Heriot-Watt, Liverpool JM, Loughborough, Sheffield
James Dixon – Chemical Engineering – Newcastle, Birmingham
Arjuna Puvanachandra – Mechanical Engineering – Southampton, Bristol
William Blythe-Bartram – Mechanical Engineering – Sheffield
Robert Stevens – Mechanical Engineering – Lancaster, Nottingham, Sheffield
Arthur Wildish – Mechanical Engineering – Newcastle, Northumbria, Nottingham
Ben Scott – Mechanical Engineering – Loughborough, Exeter
Henry Farr – Mechanical Engineering – Bath, Brunel, Imperial
Aaron Chiu Ho Lun – Engineering – HKU
Isaac Betts – Engineering – Exeter, Southampton, Newcastle
Joseph Ford – Engineering – Southampton, Nottingham, Sheffield
Robert Mackintosh – Engineering – Loughborough, Nottingham
Isaac Mann – Engineering – QML 


Creative Courses
Mia Bartram – Architecture – Falmouth Unconditional offer
Bryony Brierley: Architectural Engineering – Herriot Watt, LJM, Loughborough, Sheffield
Aanya Mukhtyar – Art and Design – London Met
Thomas Thornton – Graphic Design – Falmouth, Leeds University if the Arts, Northumbria
Amélie Clark – Music – Cambridge, KCL, York, plus Conservatoires: Guildhall, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music
Poppy Woodruff – Drama – UEA
Abigail Mansley – Drama and English Literature – Manchester
Sam Honey – Computer Games Design – Portsmouth, Nottingham Trent
Adam Jones – Computer Games Design – Staffordshire Gloucestershire Bournemouth Huddersfield, Abertay
James Ribbands – Computer Games – Essex, Birmingham City,
Chloe Davies – Film TV production – Bristol, Royal Holloway, Newcastle
Scarlett Collins – Fashion Marketing – Manchester met, Nottingham, UAL
Amelie Bredican – Fashion Communication – Nottingham Trent
Tilly Banks – Art Design and Fashion Communication – Liverpool Hope, Nottingham Trent
Kit Whitaker – Advertising Brand Design – Falmouth, UAL, Lincoln, Ravensbourne,


Economics, Business & Finance
Oliver Holden – Business and Environment with Industrial Experience – Exeter, Warwick, Leeds
Joseph Roy – Business and Management – Oxford Brookes, Nottingham Trent, Nottingham
Poppy Woodruff – Business Management – UEA
Aidan McCabe – Business Management – LJM
Daniel Murphy – Business Management – Nottingham Trent, Sheffield, London Met
Charlie Humphrey – Bristol, Nottingham, Economics
Akshay Pissay – Economics – Nottingham, York
Luke Yerby – Economics – Reading, Sussex, Nottingham Trent, Kent, Sheffield
Taha Raja – Economics – Sheffield, York
Ben Lettice – Economics and Finance – Sussex
Vani Kumar – Economics with a Year Abroad – QML
Lee Lin – Economics and Finance with a Year in Industry – Bristol, QML
George Smith – Accounting and Finance – Newcastle
Jason Kwok – Management HKUST, Financial Technology, Professional Accounting from CUHK


Languages
Toby Hunt – Modern Languages – Durham, Bristol, Exeter,
Simone Heap – Modern Languages – Exeter, UCL and UCL Institute Paris
Laura Garrod – Modern Languages – UCL, Exeter
Candice Wong – Linguistics – Warwick, KCL, Manchester, Lancaster as well as an interview at Princeton.


Law
Leanne Leung – Exeter, Leeds, Law Batchelor of Law and Business Administration - HKU
Annabel Thompson – Law – Cardiff, Exeter, York
Orla Hardiman – Law and Business Studies – Liverpool, Nottingham Trent, Exeter
Anna Austin – Law with Spanish Law – Bristol, Nottingham
George Sommerville – Law and Business – Nottingham Trent


Humanities and Social Sciences
Hector Frith – Geography with International Relations – Plymouth
Luke Fox – Geography – Manchester
Joshua Means – Geography – UEA
Cora St John Cooper – Geography – Nottingham, Kent
Eleanor Bezova-Lyons – Geography – Durham, UEA, York
George McGuire – Geology with Geography – UEA
Oliver Holden – Global Sustainable Development – Warwick
Ella Craggs – Environmental Science – Birmingham, Leeds, York, Southampton
George McGuire – Exploration Geology – Cardiff, UEA
Abigail Cunningham – History – UCL, York
Sophie Cook – History – Oxford
Bertie Comer – War Studies – KCL
Edward Maxwell-Preston – History – Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Southampton
Nicola Hinsley – History and Ancient History – Swansea, Nottingham, Leicester, Wales Trinity, Surrey
Matthew Doylend – Ancient History – Newcastle, Birmingham
Grace Futter – Classics – Cambridge, Exeter, St. Andrews
Lucy Conroy – Classics – Oxford
Benjamin Tremelling – Archaeology – Cambridge, UCL, Exeter and Toronto
Emily White – History of Art – Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester
Freddie Power – Politics – Cardiff, Newcastle, Sheffield, Warwick
Daniel Collins – Politics and International Relations – Strathclyde
Benedict Cranfield – Politics and International Relations – Nottingham, York
Maxwell Murray – Politics and International Relations – Newcastle, Nottingham
Daniel Griffiths – Politics – UEA, YSJ, Winchester
Eleanor Porter – English – York, Strathclyde
Ruby McDowell – English – UEA, York
Bo Spurling – English – Bristol, York
Joanne Bale – English – York
Jemima Miller – Media and Communication – Loughborough, Cardiff, Newcastle
Isabel Cutts – Anthropology – Durham, Exeter
Adrienne Ng – Urban Planning – Manchester, Reading, Loughborough, UCL
Atiya Bussey – Psychology – Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Nottingham Trent, Newcastle
Elizabeth Collinson – Psychology – Nottingham
Emily Rivett – Psychology – Kent, York, Newcastle
Yin Liang – Psychology and Language Sciences – UCL, Edinburgh
Charlene Chan – Psychology – Sussex
Amelia Cropley – Criminology and Psychology – Nottingham Trent, Loughborough, Bath, Edge Hill
Frederick Paterson – Criminology – Lancaster, Manchester, York
Benedict Fletcher – Criminology – Manchester Met, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, Liverpool
Tatiana Mitchell – Criminology – Northumbria, Leicester, Nottingham
Lucy Jenkinson – Criminology and Social Policy – Cardiff, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol


STEM Courses
Max White – Biological Sciences – Lancaster, Warwick
Xander Wimmer – Biological Sciences – Reading
Chloe Cheng – Biomedical Sciences – Leeds, QML
Joseph Byrne – Biomedical Science – Sheffield
Chloe Loveland – Marine Biology – Newcastle, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Liverpool, Bangor
Joshua Means – Geography/ Marine Biology – Plymouth, Southampton, UEA, Loughborough
Finn Duncan – Ecology – Leeds
Aaron Chiu – Neuroscience – QML
Olivia Richards – Neuroscience – Bristol, Nottingham, Exeter, Cardiff, Leeds
Edward Wilson – Chemistry – Bath, UEA,
Toby Finch – Chemistry – Bristol, Newcastle, UCL
Edward Wilson – Chemistry – Bath, UEA
Navaneeth Hari Krishnan – Physics – Cambridge, Bath, Manchester, Durham
Jacob Brown – Physics – UEA, Warwick, Bath, Manchester
Stephanie Cho – Physics and Philosophy as well as an interview at Princeton – Bristol
William Hardy - Physics Astrophysics – Sussex
Zen Hei Lau – Physics with Foundation – QML
Doris Qiqi Zhang – Mathematics – Birmingham, Bristol
Venus Sze Yu Chow – Mathematics – Bristol
Sonny Cooper – Computer Science – City
Ben Livesey – Computer Science – Anglia Ruskin, Hertfordshire
Sebastian Gotto – Data Science – Bath, Bristol
Olivia White – Sports Science – Loughborough, St Marys, AECC, Edge Hill
Harry Mackenzie – Sport and Exercise Psychology – Edge Hill


International Offers
Aaron Chiu - Bachelor of Science HKU and Bachelor of Engineering in Data Science and Engineering – HKU
Jason Kwok – Finance – HKU Business School


In addition, congratulations to ONs Dan Possener and Harry Vincent who have secured places at Cambridge, Dan to study Theology & Philosophy of Religions and Harry to read Engineering; and Kitty Womack who has received an offer from Oxford to study English Literature. 



Offers are still coming in this year and we wish everyone good luck for the remaining weeks!


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