I qualified from King’s College University as a registered Adult Staff Nurse and I now work as a neuro-intensive care nurse at the RVI. I loved my time at Sixth Form and, looking back, I really do value the time I spent there. I really liked that I still had structure at Sixth Form, in my study periods I was motivated to do work so that I had more free time at the weekends. They helped me choose a university and pushed me when I doubted myself.

I have taught English at St. Thomas More Blaydon for 8 years and am now Head of English at St. Mary’s in Newcastle. I have such fond memories of St Anthony’s Sixth Form, where I formed lifelong friendships and was inspired by the knowledge, enthusiasm and care of the teaching staff. I still feel their influence every day in my own work as a teacher.

Sixth Form at St Anthony’s, with the help of fantastic teachers, was where I realised what I was good at and what I was passionate about – politics and languages – and this put me on a path to working in policy. Now I have a job where I can combine both of these passions and this wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t been encouraged to pursue these passions at Sixth Form.