News & Events
Year 10 Careers
Since half term, our Year 10s have been having 1:1 meetings with our Careers Advisor, Mrs Scott. They have all received individual feedback regarding careers, sixth form subjects options and university courses. On Monday, armed with this information, the Year 10 students visited the UCAS Discovery Event at ExCel London. It was a vibrant, busy few…
SPOTLIGHT CAREERS – EMMA COURTNEY
Emma Courtney delivered a fantastic talk on different roles within the Creative Arts Sector. Having always wanted to be a Vet, Emma failed her Physics GSCE whilst achieving the highest English GSCE mark in the country! She studied English and Philosophy at university, took a graduate position in Marketing before securing a job with Weber…
PWC Careers Workshop
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…
YEAR 11 CAREERS TRIP: NETWORK RAIL
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…
SPOTLIGHT CAREERS: DEGREE APPRENTICESHIPS
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…
STEM EVENT
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…
International School Award Ceremony
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,…
SPOTLIGHT CAREERS: PHARMACY
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…
Nativity Play Gallery – Christmas 2025
A bumper photo gallery from our wonderful nativity play. Click/tap on an image to enlarge it.
SPOTLIGHT CAREERS: RAF
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…
Marine Biology & Photography Careers Talk
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…
Careers Event: Harper’s Law
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…
