Students from Year 5-13 joined clinicians from Milton Keynes Hospital and Bedford Hospital at our annual Careers in Healthcare Event yesterday. They were able to find out more about the wide-ranging opportunities in the NHS and about the fantastic Bedford Health and Care Academy that many of our students engage with.
Fresh from running the London Marathon, Matt Batchelor and three colleagues from Network Rail led a fabulous Employability Skills workshop for our Year 12s. This included CV writing, tips about what employers are looking for and the opportunity to analyse cvs and identify strengths and weaknesses. Students were given guidance on how to prepare for interviews,…
It was standing room only for a brilliant careers talk today, delivered by Georgia Latham, who works at the Football Association as England Marketing Manager for the national teams. Georgia loved her time at Thornton and talked about the friends she made and the attributes she developed here, particularly residence and persistence. She shared that…
PwC were ranked second in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2025 survey and are proud of their record of consistently being voted as a top employer by university students. Our Year 12s took part in an event to mark the beginning of National Careers Week which highlighted the fantastic different pathways that PwC offer…
Our Year 11 Business students spent a fabulous morning at the amazing Network Rail corporate office at The Quadrant in Milton Keynes. Hosted by cohorts of degree apprentices and graduates, we were treated to a tour of the building, which is brilliantly designed with work spaces such as pods and event rooms and includes a…
To mark National Apprenticeship Week, we were joined by Dante and Omar from Network Rail, who are currently on the company’s Business and IT Degree Apprenticeship scheme. Network Rail are one of the nation’s biggest employers, with a workforce of over 40,000 people and they are currently investing in attracting younger employees. When at school, Dante shared that he…
On Tuesday 3rd February we hosted our eleventh STEM Event and as always, the buzz was fantastic! Students from Years 5-13 had the opportunity to be inspired by a huge number of different job roles. They had used PHSE lesson time to undertake research and work in groups to prepare questions. Companies including Leading Aviation…
As a recently qualified Pharmacist, Victoria Houghton shared that she wanted to be an Archaeologist in Year 9! She reached sixth form with no clear idea of a career and decided to take sciences for A level to give herself options. She settled on Pharmacy, one reason being that she would always be employable as AI…
Stuart Mulligan gave students a whistle-stop tour round the fantastic different job roles offered in the RAF. With a disciplined, trained force of 32,000 people the UK Government can call on, the RAF is currently engaged in five missions on four continents in 22 countries. Stuart has done 27 years of service, is a Cyberspace…
We run a wide range of extra curricular clubs at Thornton, and a recent and extremely popular addition is the Marine Biology Club. This week, members of the club and also senior school Photography students were treated to a talk from Doug Allan OBE, a highly regarded wildlife documentary photographer and cameraman. Doug originally trained…
