Durham Sixth Form Centre

Houghton started at Sunderland, before moving on to Leeds Carnegie in 2007, where she won the FA Women's Premier League Cup. In 2010, she joined Arsenal Ladies, where she won the FA WSL on two occasions and is a two-time winner of the FA Women's Cup and three-time winner of the FA WSL Cup. She broke into the Sunderland team as a striker before moving back into midfield and later into defence.

"My truly inspirational teachers were at Durham Sixth Form Centre."

Matt talked about how he was given valuable career advice, which, in his opinion, set him on the path he has found himself on today. With the support of his teachers, Matt was able to re-asses the A Levels he was doing, and benefited from this when he went on to audition for drama school. Matt described his teachers at Durham Sixth Form Centre as being "really influential in helping me make a life-changing decision." He went on to add "If it wasn't for Grease and swapping my A Levels, I wouldn't be doing what I am today."

I started at Durham Sixth Form Centre without really knowing where or what I wanted to do with my life. From day one, my Personal Tutor, James O'Leary, took a real interest in helping me get my GCSE's (which I didn't get from school) and then encouraged me to progress onto A levels. After three years of continual support and encouragement, I had the confidence to go onto University - something that I had never considered throughout my school life. My subject teachers, particularly Norman Ferguson, my sports teacher, was always supportive and more than happy to tell me when I wasn't doing as well as I should be and what I had to do to improve.