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…
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…
Representatives of Thornton College were delighted to attend the International Schools Award ceremony at the Houses of Parliament on Monday 2nd February. Mrs Murphy was joined by Mia Laurence, our Global Ambassador last year, whose leadership and commitment played a key role in achieving the award. Mia made a significant contribution to our international work,…
A bumper photo gallery from our wonderful nativity play. Click/tap on an image to enlarge it.
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…
PC Andrew Harper died when he suffered catastrophic injuries after a road traffic incident in 2019. There were fifteen key police witnesses and one of the first officers on the scene was Inspector Andy Fiddler, who was a friend of Andrew Harper. Andy and PC Harper’s widow Lissie (they had only been married for four…
