Senior School
Spain Trip Gallery – June 2025
Photo gallery from the trip to Cala Llevado, Spain. The girls (from years 7 to 10) look like they’re having a fabulous time! Click/tap an image to enlarge it.
Thornton Wow Disneyland Paris
Thornton has once again received fantastic audience reviews following performances by our choir at Disneyland Paris. ‘Where is this school from? They are amazing.’ ‘It made the hair stand up on the back of my arms when they sang.’ ‘Magnifique! Magnifique!’
Senior School Soloist Concert
Senior School music students’ performances were so impressive at their soloist concert on 19th June. Here’s a gallery capturing the occasion. Click on an individual image to enlarge it.
Senior School Concert – Spring 2025 Gallery
A photo gallery from our fantastic Senior School Concert. Please click on an image below to scroll through the gallery.
Eleanor Wins Lit Fest Competition
Congratulations to Year 11 student Eleanor M on winning a category in the MK Lit Fest ‘MinK2025 Creative Writing Competition’. Eleanor’s poem, “A House in Need of a Home” won the 14-19 age poetry category and has been published in the MK Lit Fest anthology alongside the other short-listed writers. Well done Eleanor!
Year 12 EPQ Presentations
Year 12 Extended Project Qualification students held their marketplace on Wednesday 19th March, discussing all aspect of the projects that they have been working on this academic year. There are some fascinating projects including how Roman gladiators were influenced by Greek methodology, whether the UK legal system is equipped for growing mental health needs, and…
Spotlight Careers: Police
Inspector Andy Fiddler from Thames Valley Police delivered a fantastic talk on opportunities and roles within the Force. Thames Valley is the largest non metropolitan police force in the country, and is currently building a state of the art Forensics Building at Bicester. Andy showcased different entry routes that Thames Valley offer, including the Detective…
National Careers Week: Senior School Spotlight Talks
Our Senior School classes were treated to an array of brilliant speakers to mark National Careers Week. Sectors included International Development, Aviation, Politics, Publishing, Navy, Construction, Space Science, Charity Sector, Data and Business. Nat Gibbings from Aiimi spoke to the Year 13s about employability skills and gave some great advice to students as they begin…
Thornton UFOs Victorious Again
Following their 3-0 victory over Newcastle High School last week, our amazing Esports team, The UFOs, have done it again! Yesterday evening Thornton’s UFOs defeated Bolton Girls’ School by the same scoreline in the Independent School Association (ISA) Esports Competition. The girls are really working well as a team and thinking about how best to…
STEM EVENT – THORNTON COLLEGE – FEBRUARY 4th 2025
STEM EVENT Since 2016, we have hosted STEM events to inspire and engage students in a wonderful array of jobs. Some fantastic gold standard companies work in partnership with us and their support is invaluable. This year companies who joined the event included Network Rail, Grant Thornton, BP, Sir Robert McAlpine, Nifty Lift, KPMG, Savills,…
SPOTLIGHT CAREERS: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We were lucky to be joined by Old Thorntonian Emma Evans, who has recently started her first job in the Charity Sector. Emma’s dream when she was in Year 11 at Thornton was to have a fulfilling career in international development which would genuinely impact people’s lives for the better. She spoke about the role…
Student Debates v St Paul’s
During the last week of term, nine Thornton students from Years 10 to 13 took part in two debates with students from St Paul’s Catholic School in Milton Keynes. Thornton students also chaired the debates and kept time. The motions for the debates were: ‘This house believes the UK needs to do more to protect…
