GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER!
We are over the moon for Greenhead Alumna Jessica Gunning, who has added yet another incredible accolade to her growing collection!
Jessica picked up the ‘Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television’ Golden Globe Award last night for her role as Martha in Baby Reindeer, fighting off some fierce competition, including Dakota Fanning.
We couldn’t be prouder of Jessica and her journey to becoming a well-deserved, multi-award winning actress!
On Wednesday, 30 of our A1 Physics students had the exciting opportunity to dive into the world of Astrophysics, thanks to a visit from the National Space Academy.
Students took part in several workshops investigating spectroscopy and its use to analyse the light from stars and how astronomy has developed our understanding of the universe. The day culminated with an investigation into the physics of human spaceflight and its impact on the human body. We hope this experience has sparked curiosity about the cosmos and inspired our students to think big.
Who knows — perhaps one day we’ll see a Greenhead astronaut among the stars!
Over 100 Economics and Business students recently attended a talk by former Greenhead student, Chris Walker.
Chris is CEO of Asda Express and talked about his career so far, including senior roles at Lidl and Asda. Students saw theory brought to life on a range of topics, with real-life examples on efficiency, business growth and objectives from the supermarket sector. It was great to see a former Economics student having achieved so highly, and still using Economic theory he learned with us!
A2 student Shifa studies both Economics and Business A Level. After the visit, she commented
“I really enjoyed the talk yesterday and found it very interesting listening Chris’ career journey which opened my mind to different career paths I hadn’t previously considered. The application of economics in supermarkets was very insightful and provided me with examples of takeovers which I can use in my answers. Thank you Chris!”
Greenhead College women’s football team have reached the AoC Sport National Championships for the first time in their history.
The team pictured above have qualified for the women’s 7aside football national finals to be held at Nottingham University between 4-6 April 2025, where they will compete against the winners from all the other regions within England. The regional competition was held at The University of Hull on Thursday 14th November and was a closely fought competition throughout. Greenhead beat 13 other colleges from the Yorkshire and Humber region to clinch qualification, including Wakefield College in the quarter-final, Wyke College in the semi-final and New College Pontefract in the final. A huge congratulations to the team and we wish you the best of luck for the National finals next year!!
Our ‘Student Investor Challenge’ enrichment group were incredibly fortunate to participate in an online Q&A session with Justin Waite, the UK’s most successful private investor!
Justin experienced 12 consecutive years of positive gains, with his investment returns totalling over 9,000% at the peak of the bull market. He also is the founder of sharepickers.com investment club and the author of a new book “How To Become a MicroCap Millionaire” which is due to be published next month.
Justin talked about his career and also shared some insightful tips on how to be a successful investor. This was a fantastic opportunity for our students, who came away feeling inspired. Thank you Justin!
If you haven’t yet seen Netflix’s latest sensation ‘Baby Reindeer’, then you have most likely heard about it.
Something you may not know, however, is that leading actress, Jessica Gunning, known for her outstanding portrayal of Martha in the hit TV series, is a former Greenhead College student!
Jessica studied Drama and Theatre, English, Law and Psychology here at Greenhead in 2002-2004, before taking up a place to study Drama at Rose Bruford College of Theatre.
Jessica has previously appeared in a number of films and TV series including ‘Pride’, ‘Back’, ‘What Remains’ and ‘The Outlaws’, and her latest show ‘Baby Reindeer’ is set to become one of the most watched shows on Netflix.
A huge congratulations to Jessica on her well-deserved success. We can’t wait to see more of her on our TV screens!
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This week, a number of our A Level Chemistry students participated in the Royal Society of Chemistry Schools’ Analyst competition. 54 students participated in the competition, competing both regionally and nationally, and we can’t wait to find out how they got on!⠀
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Well done to 50 of our A Level Chemistry students who participated in the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge.
The challenge is designed to stretch and challenge students interested in chemistry, taking them beyond the A Level syllabus.
We are incredibly proud of the results: 2 students achieved the gold award, 12 achieved the silver award and 24 achieved the copper award.
All students were recently presented with their certificates by Carl Sykes and Megan Smith from Syngenta, who came into College to celebrate our students’ success whilst taking the opportunity to look around our recently opened Hirst Building, and see our students in their brand new lab coats which Syngenta kindly donated to the College.
You can read the full article about our collaboration with Syngenta here – https://www.syngenta.co.uk/syngenta-greenhead-college-collaboration.
Congratulations to Grace Dunleavy, Shauna Hyland, Aiya Agustin, Jasmine Rickwood and Charlotte Royston, who are amongst the successful GC student applicants achieving a nationally competitive place on this year’s Telegraph Media Literacy Programme. The virtual programme begins today and will run till 26th March 2024, providing access, insight, training and mentoring with Telegraph journalists from News, Sport, Culture, Travel and many other teams. All students who applied for the programme have also participated in the Greenhead College Journalism enrichment and completed a rotation on the Greenhead College Resident Journalism scheme to enhance their copywriting skills.
Congratulations to all who have applied and secured a place on this scheme.
125 of our A Level Computer Science students recently participated in the Elite Bebras UK Challenge, competing against 14,570 students nationally.
The challenge is designed with a focus on computational and logical thinking, and all students who score in the top 10% nationally then qualify to participate in the Oxford University Computing Challenge (OUCC) and receive a gold award.
We are delighted that 16 of our students placed within the top 10% and were invited to take part in the OUCC in January 2024. Competing against 1457 students nationally, our students achieved some outstanding scores!
Some notable achievements include:
Thomas Cooper, who was graded a Merit in the OUCC and was the highest scoring Greenhead College student overall. Thomas scored in the top 10% of the OUCC and in the top 1% of original Bebras cohort.
Jessica Burton, who was the highest scoring A1 student from Greehead College and placed in the top 15% of the OUCC and in the top 2% of the original Bebras cohort).
Congratulations to all 16 students who qualified for the OUCC. To achieve qualification is an outstanding achievement as this competition is designed to specifically put the best problem solvers and programmers to the test!
Names as follows: Thomas Cooper, Jessica Burton, Luke Barraclough, Aaron Crosbie, Ayush Gautam, Jeremy Stocks, James Garfield, Kacper Struziak, Mayon Gupta, Toby Stringer, Ethan Bajulaiye, Nikash Shinde, Logan Bullett, Adlan Albakov, Sai Pallavajjala and Chloe Tancinco.
Well done to all 125 students who participated in the competition.
