Student Destinations

What do SGHS students go on to achieve?

The Facts in 2024:-

  • 95% of the year group applied to Higher Education
  • 44% obtained a place at a Russell group university.
  • 10 students obtained a place studying Medicine.
  • 3 students have taken up a place at Oxbridge.
  • Over the last three years, the universities in the north of England and closer to home are still the most popular with our students: Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle.

Meet some of our previous students

Holly Chapman

After leaving the Sixth Form Holly was selected to participate in the PwC higher apprenticeship programme, based in Leeds, where she will receive a level 4 apprenticeship qualification. Within the programme Holly divides her time between learning and developing a wide range of business skills and also working on client and internal projects. This experience has given her the opportunity to travel not only cross country for work, but also worldwide. As of the end of the apprenticeship, Holly will be invited to become an associate at PwC, joining the graduate programme.

 

Sally Plum

After leaving SGHS Sally started a Degree Apprenticeship with Laing O’Rourke in Civil Engineering. Over the 5 year Apprenticeship she worked on some of the UKs major construction projects – Yorkshire Schools, Manchester Airport Terminal 2 Extension, Liverpool Clatterbridge Cancer Hospital and Google HQ Kings Cross London. She studied for 5 years at Bolton University studying 2 degrees. In terms of career development she has worked her way through the ranks from Technician Engineer, to Site Engineer and is currently a Section Engineer working on the New Everton Stadium in Liverpool.

 

Hetty Shaw

After leaving SGHS, Hetty went on to study Biological Sciences at Lancaster University, achieving the Royal Society of Biology Top Student Award and contributing towards the $40-million Gates-funded Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Potential research project. She completed her Masters level Primary PGCE at Cambridge University, being awarded the Charles Fox Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement, her research proposal requested to be published as a journal article. Hetty has since returned to the Northern Star Academies Trust, now as a teacher.