Class of 1979

Nick Blyth

I left KHS in 1979. I’m nearly retired now. I went straight to University after school and studied Architecture at South Bank in London.  It’s a seven year course and I qualified for the RIBA in 1987. I Qualified as an Arbitrator a few years later. I started an Architects practice in London pretty much straight away after leaving university. Push design Ltd. We are still going strong and we specialise in designing luxury retail stores for big International Brands like Jimmy Choo, Christian Dior and Tory Burch. I was the architect for the £50m Selfridges refurbishment in the late 90’s. I never managed to escape London again though.

I remember KHS fondly, it was a great school which was run well. Mr Turner was head with Mr Midgely as deputy. The school was quite strict and I fell foul of the slipper from Mr Dyer (PE) a few times. I hated that cross country run. Our year group still get together regularly to catch up. The last reunion was just before Christmas this year. See the photo attached. We all have good memories of the school and we still talk everyday day on a WhatsApp group called School class of 72. There are still 23 of us in the group! We have lost a few friends over the years ( we are in our 60s now) but we are all pretty sprightly and still the right way up.

I didn’t leave school with great grades but that was me and not the school. I had too many other things to be doing instead of homework. I remember well, classes with Mr Blunt (Art) and Mr Merrick (TD) who I had a lot of respect for and I guess they put me on the road to architecture. Mr Blunt is still a Facebook friend living in Boscastle now he’s still painting. The school trips to Marl Hall and Yorkshire for Geography ( with Mr Briggs ) and the summer trips to places like the Malvern Hills, Solihull ice rink and Alton Towers stick in the mind. The annual Gilbert and Sullivan operettas were a hoot too.

Class of 2002

Amy Dawes

I attended the school from Year 7 until leaving after my A levels. I left in 2002 so quite some time ago now! 

I went straight on to Loughborough University to study BSc Psychology. I would advise any of your students thinking of doing this degree, that it is not vocational and you will need further study to pursue a career in this field.

I later did a further BSc Degree in Mental Health Nursing. 

Then a postgraduate diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

I remember my time fondly at Kineton High school and it certainly set me up well for where I am now.

Chris Coleman, Assistant Professor of Infection Immunology

I was at Kineton High School from Year 8 to the end of A’ Levels in 2002. Since then, I have obtained a degree in Microbiology and Virology from University of Warwick and a PhD in Virology/Immunology from University of Sheffield. I then spent 9ish years in the USA as a research scientist in various universities over there - first studying HIV and then a group of viruses that nobody cared much about at the time: coronaviruses. 

I am now an academic at the University of Nottingham, studying SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses. Along with lecturing and various other things.

I remember my time at KHS fondly, not least because my A’ Level biology teacher truly inspired me to go and do a biology degree. Also - KHS provides me with one of my favourite anecdotes. My science teacher of the time (who, I should say, I hold nothing but respect for) said at a parent’s evening: “Chris will never be a scientist”. Hopefully I proved them wrong. 

Class of 2005

Claire Proctor

After leaving Kineton high school I went to Coventry University to study foundation studies in art. I decided quite quickly this wasn’t for me and after the year I went to work at a local nursery school full time. After a few years I decided I wanted to go back to studying and enrolled in a part time course through the Open University. After 4 very challenging years, I graduated in the summer 2014 with an Open degree that consisted of psychology, counselling and early childhood education. I am now a student at Warwick University, studying for an early years PGCE, to become a teacher of 3-7 year olds.

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form.

To add yourself or update your information, please email enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form.

To add yourself or update your information, please email enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2008

Olly Cooper

After a year out, I studied Creative Advertising at the University of Gloucestershire in 2009 and left in 2012with a First Class Honours degree. My career has now taken me to an international advertising agency called Ogilvy in London, where I work as a Creative developing advertising campaigns for brands.

Hayley Edwards

After Kineton, I went to college to study for an HND in Media.I studied Radio, TV & Film and Journalism.

After receiving a Distinction in my HND, I went to Wolverhampton University for one year to top my HND up to a BA Honours in Broadcasting & Journalism where I got a 2:1

During my time at College & University, I worked with the BBC in Coventry and Warwickshire on a 10 week placement, leading to paid Broadcast Assistant work & also Mercia which is now Free Radio, interning on the Breakfast Show. Through this experience, I began at Touch FM.

I’ve been working at Touch FM for two & a half years. Firstly it started out as Intern work on the 102 Touch FM Breakfast Show. Then I was asked to take over Local events for each of our 8 Radio Stations.  We’ve won Station of the Year for the Midlands for the last two years running and were in the top 3 for Station of the Year across the entire Country for our audience reach. All of this has led to me becoming Station Coordinator, covering 8 Radio Stations across our group

Laura Edwards

Left KHS in 2008 (has it really been that long!) – Went to study Forensic Computing & Security for 4 years at Bournemouth University achieving a 1st class honors
Started the IT Management Graduate scheme at Unipart Logistics in August 2012.
Recently accepted a job offer as IT Service Delivery Manager for our technology business (Unipart Technology Logistics – UTL) following completion of the Graduate scheme.

Sam Goodman

After leaving Kineton High School, I studied as an apprentice in engineering at Warwickshire College and Automatic Doors Ltd.

Since completing my apprenticeship two years early, I stayed on with the company to become Mechanical Design Engineer with Project Support. From June this year I have taken on additional responsibilities as a Production Supervisor.

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please contact Mrs Cottriall on enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2009

Charlotte Alcock

After leaving Kineton High School, I went on to the University of Bristol where I studied a BA degree in French – literature and language.

I have just graduated (July 2014 – with a 2:1 Hons) and I have now moved to London where I am working in a financial and corporate PR/communications agency.

Harriet Ballantyne

I studied French at the University of Southampton, graduated with a 2:1 and I’m now working for a publishers in Leamington called LCP, designing and creating an online subscription service for teaching languages at Key Stage , called LinguaNova.

Hannah Bradshaw

I firstly took a gap year where I worked and traveled which was an amazing experience. I then undertook a three year degree at Edge Hill University in Sociology and Early Childhood Studies, where I achieved a 2:1.  I then did a PGCE in Early years at University of East Anglia. I am now working as a pre-school teacher and I absolutely love my job.

Sarah Gill

I went to De Montfort University in Leicester and got a degree in photography. I now live in London and work as a support worker for special needs children and rehab patients.

Gemma Gregory

I work at Jaguar Land Rover Experience as events resource and coordinator. My job involves looking after our Land Rover instructors (120+ ppl) and our Jaguar instructors (55+ppl). We’re involved in events like Goodwood FofS, Windsor horse trials, Burghley, the World Equestrian Games and the recent Invictus games with Prince Harry. It’s very challenging but I love every minute of my job

Nancy Hewitt

September 2009 – May 2013 – 4 Year Sandwich Course at Coventry University. Graduated with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Business Studies.

July 2011 – Sept 2012 – Placement Year at Enterprise Rent a Car – Management Trainee

May 2013 – Marketing/Category Graduate at Tulip Ltd – a UK Pork Manufacturer.

Sarah McDougall

After leaving Kineton High School Sixth Form I studied Music Performance at Coventry University. After gaining my first class degree I entered the teaching profession and after time back at Kineton High School, I went on to teach Music and Drama at Southam College. I am currently completing a PGCE through the Open University and hope to be back in the teaching world soon!

Toby Page

After leaving KHS Sixth Form, I carried on down the path of Art and Design and studied a year of Fine Art at college. After leaving college, I had to think about University. Turns out, my ‘Success’ came during my time off education when I was just working in a store full time. My social media was getting thousands of followers by the day, because my artwork was finally getting noticed. Now, I am so lucky to say that I have had my work loved by many accomplished people like Rihanna, Beyoncé, Sam Smith, Kim Kardashian, JoJo, Paloma Faith, Beyoncé also now owns my work, and I’m even working alongside celebrities working on designing their album covers and other artistic projects. So follow your dreams Guys! You really just don’t know where they will take you!

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please email enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2010

Ben Cherry

After leaving Sixth Form and my wonderful role of Head Boy behind me, I deferred my place at the University of Sheffield to study Zoology. During my year out I travelled from Cairo to Cape Town over 5 months. This gave me some incredible life experiences from going to hospital in Sudan to seeing wild mountain gorillas in Rwanda. During my degree I was lucky enough to go on a field course in Borneo and now that I have graduated, I am in the process of moving abroad to pursue a life combining my two passions, conservation and photography.

Sam Cook

Following sixth form, I was involved in a steel manufacturing business; prior to completion of a Business Management with Marketing degree at the University of Cumbria.
Having achieved a 2:1 classification, I now work as Commercial Graduate Trainee at AB Mauri UK & Ireland. The business specializes in the manufacture and supply of bakery ingredients throughout Europe and in fact, across the globe. Currently, I split a lot of my time between our Northampton and Corby offices and am shadowing each and every department.
With hard work and effort, KHS Sixth Form enabled me to achieve these things. It can create the same opportunities for you, too.

Callum Graham

After studying Maths, Physics and Drama in 6th form at Kineton High School, I am now working as a Freelance Lighting Technician in a number of theatres. I am also Technical Manager for 5 venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In between this I also teach Stage Lighting design/Practice, along with a number of other units at Stratford upon Avon College.

Rob Lilley

After leaving school I went on to study Broadcast Journalism at Nottingham Trent University. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and learnt so many great skills which will hopefully be of use in the future. While studying at Trent I was heavily involved in Fly FM, the most successful student radio station in the UK, and was lucky enough to serve as Station Manager during my final year at University.
Having graduated in the summer of 2014, I’ve just moved to Bournemouth to become the Communications Coordinator at Bournemouth University Students Union, where I’ll be responsible for shaping their internal and external media output, as well as managing their student radio station and magazine.
In the last few years I have also been lucky enough to work at several brilliant sporting events. I was the youngest reporter at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, while I also worked as a journalist at the Rowing and Rugby League World Cups.

Lucy Thompson

The 7 years I spent at Kineton were the best years of my life. With the help of the amazing teachers I had I achieved brilliant a level results and went on to gain NVQs in childcare. I now have my dream job and am loving being a private nanny!’

Jamie Woodward

After finishing sixth form, I deferred my Tourism Management degree at Sheffield Hallam University and took a gap year to Kenya, where for 4 months I worked as an assistant manager in a high end safari camp in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. I then came back to the UK, saved some money, and got offered my job back in Kenya for the next summer before starting university and decided to go travelling around the eastern cape of South Africa.
I have now finished my first year and just come back from spending the summer running a beach restaurant in Borneo, Malaysia, and hope next year to spend a year in the US working in the Tourism industry.

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please email  enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

My name is George Guice and I finished Kineton Sixth Form in 2011, having joined Year 7 in September 2004. After leaving Kineton, I spent the next 3 years at the University of Keele (2011-2014) and graduated with a First Class degree in Geology with Physical Geography. After that, I studied for a MSc is Mining Geology (2014-2015), before moving to Cardiff University to study for a PhD. 

My PhD, which I completed in 2019, focused on very old rocks (over 2.5 billion years old!) in Scotland and South Africa, with the aim of understanding how Earth worked long before life existed. For reference, the dinosaurs went extinct 0.065 billion years ago. Since June 2019, I have been working as a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C, where I am fortunate to study fundamental Earth processes (e.g., how and why do we get Earthquakes and volcanoes?) by looking at rocks from eastern USA and southern Brazil. Yes, this does mean I get to go on cool fieldtrips to Brazil!

If you are interested, a snippet of our work was recently covered by a few news outlets, including National Geographic and the Washington Post. Here are a couple of links: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2021/04/rare-chunks-of-earths-mantle-found-exposed-in-maryland

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-baltimore-area-mantle-rocks-20210503-5wvjhujbwzbfhaxjq2bfnbvkze-story.html

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Class of 2013

Carlota Browne

I have been riding out for a racehorse trainer, Anthony Middleton at his National Hunt yard in Culworth. I’ve been there for almost a year now. I’ve wanted to be a jockey since I was 8. Once I’ve got a bit more experience, I’m hoping to apply for a license and ride in races as an amateur jockey.

Nathan Geekie

After two years within Kineton’s 6th Form I took a year out to work and decide what I wanted to do. I am now studying for an BA Honours Business Degree along side playing semi-professional rugby, something that once I finish my degree I hope to continue with.

Hannah Graham

I went to Oxford Brookes straight after leaving Kineton to study Adult Nursing.  I’ve spent half of my year on placement in the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, on the Gastroenterology and Heptology ward, and the Gynaecology ward.  I’m currently still doing my degree and hope to nurse abroad in the future.

Jamie Hoyte

I’m studying song writing at BIMM (British Institute of Modern Music) in bristol and hope to be a composer/writer in the future.

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please email enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2014

Oliver Stokes

I am currently studying Marketing Management BA Hons at Manchester Metropolitan University. I hope that this will lead me in to a senior role in advertising or marketing.

Katie Stanton

I attended Sixth Form from  2012-14 year group, but I attended A level Biology for one more year to boost my grade for university. Also I was Head Girl during my time at Sixth Form. Then I attended Teesside University studying Diagnostic Radiography from 2015-2018. Having done presentations, music concerts and head girl speeches through my time at Kineton meant I was well practiced when asked to present a valedictory speech at my graduation ceremony. 

I qualified as a Radiographer (Band 5) that summer, so taking x-rays for patients when they come to hospital, working firstly at Darlington Memorial hospital before moving to Manchester working at Bolton Hospital. However I now live and work in York. The role includes taking x-rays for inpatients, outpatients, GP surgeries, A/E but I particularly enjoy going up to theatres and taking X-rays during a variety of surgeries. In the last three years I have specialised in doing CT scans, training in interventional imaging and moved up to Band 6, taking on more team leading roles. 

The job has been challenging through the Pandemic - with COVID being a respiratory virus, every patient has been requiring multiple chest x-rays and CT scans have been a big part of the diagnosis of other complications that come with COVID such as blood clots or long term breathing problems. However, I have been amazed by the resilience of my colleagues and the NHS staff members as a whole. 

I am very fortunate to love the work I do and have my time at KHS to thank for this. In Year 10 I was informed there were some work experience opportunities at Warwick Hospital, so I applied for this and was told to attend their radiology department for 3 days - from that point on, all I had wanted to do as a career was be a Radiographer.

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please email on enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2015

Peter Stockbridge

Degree Apprentice, Jaguar Land Rover

To get onto the apprenticeship I applied online, where I uploaded a CV with some basic information about me. Then there was an online test and some simple problem-solving questions and questions about what you’d do in different situations. After this I was invited to an assessment centre where we did interviews, team tasks and a hands-on activity. For my A levels I did Maths, Physics and Art and achieved AAC. The apprenticeship required two C’s in maths and a science. For work experience I managed to get into Jaguar Land Rover and then Aston Martin. As well as this I did the Engineering Education Scheme, Duke of Edinburgh and the challenge. A lot of people apply so it’s so important to do as much as possible. Currently I’m working at Jaguar Land Rover at the Gaydon site. Every six weeks we have a week at Warwick University for lectures, seminars and lab sessions. Apprenticeships are a no-brainer. We’re getting a great salary with pay rises every six months, getting our degree from a Russell Group university completely paid for, can still join any of the sports clubs and societies at the university and we’re getting so much experience and contacts in the workplace.

Shaun Price

I left Kineton sixth form in 2015 with A*AA in maths, further maths and physics.

I went on to Imperial College London to study Electrical and Electronic engineering and finished the 4 year course with a first class MEng qualification. I currently work at Partner Electronics Ltd in Silverstone as an electronics engineer.

I look back on my time at Kineton fondly and hope all the current students can still enjoy it despite the pandemic!

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please email enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form.

To add yourself or update your information, please email enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2017

Gabby Zuliani

Fashion Management, Nottingham Trent University

After achieving A, A, B at Kineton Sixth Form, I am now currently studying Fashion Management in my first year at Nottingham Trent University, which was my first choice. I am currently undertaking modules in textiles & product, marketing, design and visuals. This is something I have always been interested in and Kineton has helped me achieve my goal of studying fashion. In the future I would like to pursue a career in buying where I will decide and buy fabrics from all over the world which would be most suitable for the brand’s garment. With my course in February I will be visiting Premiere Vision in Paris which is a fabric trade show. I also have the opportunity to visit New York next year and undergo a placement year. I am therefore very excited for what the next few years have to hold.

We want to hear what you are up to and what you have achieved since leaving KHS Sixth Form. To add yourself or update your information, please email  enquiries@kinetonhighschool.org.uk

Class of 2018

Georgia McGrath

My name is Georgia McGrath, and I studied at kineton high school from 2014-2018. I studied sociology, psychology and English language at your sixth form , finishing in 2018 and went on to the University of Northampton to study Joint Honours Applied Social Care/Education Studies.

I have just finished my last year, and am awaiting my final classification but achieved an A grade in my final dissertation. Now from September I am completing my QTS with PGCE through Oxfordshire Teacher Training to become a fully qualified SEN teacher.