Careers
Thornton – National Award WINNER!
Thornton has won The Independent Schools of the Year Award! Mrs Holmes, Thornton’s Headteacher is clearly delighted: “To be The Independent School of the Year for our Careers Programme from all the hundreds of schools that entered the Awards is an amazing recognition for our school and especially for our Careers Team, who go above…
Careers Event: Your Future Career
Caitlin Brennan from InvestIn delivered a presentation to our Year 10 and 11s on ‘Your Future Career’. Caitlin introduced the idea of Career Clusters, focusing on groups of careers that are linked and acquiring skills that will be transferable across the cluster. A wealth of extra curricular activities are available at Thornton, and Caitlin spoke…
Careers Event: Business and Food Manufacturing
We are hugely grateful to Alison Georgakis from Grupo Bimbo UK for delivering a fantastic careers talk on Business and Food Manufacturing. Not only did Alison touch on all the different functions within the business, she also passed on some great tips from her role in recruitment. Two recent graduates, Jasper and Ellie, told us…
Virtual Careers in Healthcare Event
A fantastic panel of clinicians joined students for our inaugural virtual careers event. We hosted speakers from dentistry, nursing, medicine, midwifery and physiotherapy. It was fascinating to hear the different pathways followed into the professions and the opportunities in terms of different types of practice, working hours and travel. The commitment to vocation was inspiring…
Thornton named as Finalist in the Independent Schools Award
Thornton have been recognised as a Finalist in the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2020! The Independent Schools of the Year Awards is an annual celebration of the successes of schools and their students across the independent education sector in the UK and British schools overseas. Showcasing the excellence of the educational experience available…
