1996

Stephanie Bagshaw – Is training to be an Asbestos Surveyor with Hampshire County Council; this means that she is involved in overseeing the removal of asbestos from old buildings. She is living close to school in Southsea.

1997

Sancha Simpson-Davies – Spent 6 months in Guildford with Susie Duckworth, who has also recently qualified and is now married. Sancha has now moved to the Accident and Emergency department at Chertsey as an SHO. ‘Tired’ and ‘overworked’ are the epithets that spring to mind!

1999

Alex Griffin – Completed an MChem at the University of Bath and then moved down the road to the Chemistry Department at Bristol University. Alex has just started her second year PhD in Inorganic Chemistry and is really enjoying it. She is researching crystal engineering with the use of X-ray diffraction as an analytical technique. Unfortunately, after a successful career in lacrosse at Bath, she has had to admit defeat and has given it up (mainly due to injury!).

Katy McGovern – Is in the final year of a veterinary medicine course at the Royal Veterinary College in London. She is planning to go into equine medicine when she qualifies. Katy plans to look for a job close to London for a few months and then to travel and work abroad for a couple of years.

Sally Rice – Took a Gap year after leaving school and went travelling with Jaz. Sally then went to Durham University and studied Law and Politics for three years (yes, Sally says she knows she is mad). On leaving university she worked in education recruitment up north before moving home to save money to go travelling again in February for 10 months.

Abby Ward – Is currently doing a PGCE and teaching science to 11-18 year olds in a comprehensive in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Abby is living in Bath with her fiancé, Mark (who she met in Portsmouth 6 years ago before moving to Bath for university). She regularly visits Portsmouth to watch Pompey Football Club play and to see family and friends.

Teona Wingate – Graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in politics. She then worked 2 jobs for 6 months before taking off to travel around south-east Asia for 8 months. When she returned, Teona took up a job on the south coast as a General Practice Manager but she has now moved to London and is working as an event organiser extraordinaire!

2000

Chloë Bostock – Obtained a First in Modern European Languages at Durham with a Distinction in spoken Spanish and Italian. During the summer she taught English to some Italian teenagers and at the end of July she was leaving for Valledupar in Columbia. In Columbia Chloë is working for the British Council, teaching English at the Colegio Bilingue de Valledupar. She will remain there until the end of May 2005 but planned to return home for Christmas as her sister Hannah (1994 Upper 5) was expecting a baby boy in November. She also wrote that Kathryn (1993) became Mrs Wheater on 15th May 2004.

Amanda Craft – Graduated from York with a degree in History.

Melanie Shuker – Completed her degree in Physiology at Southampton and has been accepted onto the fast track medical degree course also at Southampton.

Cary Simpson-Davies – Gained a First from Leeds as well as being awarded two prizes, The Dorothy Wharton Memorial Prize for the most meritorious female geography student and an open Grebenik prize for her dissertation on social capital in Leeds. Cary has just started training as a Centre director for Explore Learning, which she describes happily as ‘not really like work’.

2001

Abigail Lewis – Has completed three years at Southampton University and was in the final stage of completing an Advanced Diploma in Adult Nursing. When she wrote, Abigail was about to apply for a staff nurse position within Portsmouth Hospitals.

Mary Thompson – Has completed her degree in Ocean Science at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Sarah Willicombe – Has finished three years of pre-clinical medicine and has gained her Medical Sciences degree. Sarah has now started her clinical training and is staying in Cambridge to do this at Addenbrookes Hospital.