Onward Routes - Spring Update

April 29, 2024

Mrs Warren would like to congratulate all Upper Sixth pupils who have received offers for higher education courses and jobs and thank all staff who have helped them achieve these.

With 171 pupils in the current cohort, it is not feasible to list all pupils’ offers. Some offers were shared in February when we focused on Apply Plus offers, creative courses and those going on to study subjects that are not taught at school. This time, whilst celebrating the offers of all pupils, we will list names of pupils whose offers (achieved since early February) have involved admissions tests, interviews, portfolio submission and/or auditions.

We wish the upper sixth all the best as they prepare for the A level examinations that most of these offers are conditional on and as some pupils still wait to hear from some of the courses or jobs that they have applied for.

Offers to study healthcare courses:

Katy Burton – Medicine at Bristol University

Ren Damodar – Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University and St. George’s

Ben Dernie – Medicine at Leicester, Liverpool and Nottingham Universities

Imogen James – Medicine at UEA with gateway year

Angel Li – Medicine at St. Andrews University

Maddie Pike – Medicine at Exeter and Manchester Universities and UEA

Eliza Prior – Medicine at Bristol, Newcastle and Southampton Universities and UEA

Adi Santosh – Medicine at UCL and Lancaster University

India Bayes – Dentistry at Liverpool and Plymouth Universities

Morgan Wolmerans ON – Veterinary Science at Bristol University

Hamish Sugden ON - Veterinary Medicine at Bristol University and Harper and Keele Veterinary School

Ben Plant – Pharmacy at Bath University

Wilson Yu - Pharmacy at UCL

Offers to study creative courses:

Lauren Carter – Certificate of Higher Education in Musical Theatre at Italia Contia Academy of Theatre Arts

Hal Major – Foundation diploma in Art and Design at University of the Arts, London

Kit Mongomery – Fine Art including at Slade School of Art, UCL (40 applicants per place!)

Dylan Parsons – Acting and Musical Theatre at Italia Contia Academy of Theatre Arts

Offers to study Apply Plus courses (academic courses needing admissions test and/or interview):

Tabitha Albery – Law at Durham University

Anson Chan – Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College

Jemima Gotto – Physics at Manchester University

Joseph Philpott – Mathematics at Bristol University and UCL

Naraen Prabhakar – Mathematics and Statistics at UCL

Henry Stanton – Physics with Astrophysics at Manchester University

Verity Youngs – Chemistry with medicinal Chemistry and a year in Industry at Imperial College

Rosemary Zhang – Mathematics at Imperial College and Warwick University

Offers for a few other courses which have particularly high application to offer ratios:

Diana Bryn – International Relations at Kings College London

Ben Chan – Architecture with professional placement at Bath University

Rachel Chan– Economics at LSE

Emily Ford and George Flatt – Psychology at Edinburgh University

Charlie Jeffs – International Relations at LSE; also has an offer to study International Liberal Studies from Waseda University, Japan

Ralph Pye – Economics at Durham University

And finally, the last few exciting offers to report:

Two pupils for degree apprenticeships – they have been selected by an employer to do paid work/training and study for a degree that the employer fully pays for simultaneously:

Jasper Bird – a nuclear and electrical engineering degree apprenticeship with AWE (the Atomic Weapons Establishment) `

Emma Hurrell – offered degree apprenticeships by both TW Gaze and Maxley Grounds in Rural Enterprise and Land Management (with RICS surveying accreditation)

and

Harvey Hkrumah has a rugby scholarship at Birmingham University

Luca Pantazis has a tennis scholarship at University of Montevallo, Alabama (USA)

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By Eleanor Lewis • August 20, 2026

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