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Rebecca also came up through the academy and left Sixth Form in 2020. She is now studying Modern History and Politics at the University of Southampton. Unfortunately, many of the societies she wished to partake in were curtailed due to COVID. However, she successfully auditioned for the Advanced Ballet Squad competition team, and did weekly rehearsals on ZOOM which kept her motivated despite online lectures and seminars. Rebecca also engaged in projects with the Holocaust Education Trust and gave a presentation on the discrimination of Jews before the Final Solution to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

“I love the fact that Magna Academy has a Sixth Form for Performing Arts now, I would have definitely stayed on after my GCSE’s if this was an option!”

Dario came over to England from Sardinia in 2014, joining Magna Academy in 2015. Whilst at Magna, he fell in love with the Arts and decided to choose Music and Drama as two of his GCSEs. He was able to progress through to studying Performing Arts at Bournemouth and Poole College as Magna Academy did not have a sixth form at that time. Dario is currently in his second year at Arts University Bournemouth studying Musical Theatre.

Amy was our Head Girl in Year 11 and was a great inspiration to younger students. In Sixth Form, she once spent a very attentative half-hour looking after a nervous Magna student on a Sixth Form Open Evening. She left Magna in 2019 to attend the University of Portsmouth, where she is studying Biology. She hopes to go on to take a Masters in Microbiology. Amy hopes to eventually take up work in the very topical field of research for vaccination and disease control.