Onward Routes for Our Upper 6 Pupils

March 20, 2025

187 Norwich School applications have been sent to UCAS (universities and colleges admissions service) this academic year.

Mrs Warren would like to thank all staff involved in supporting Upper Sixth pupils and ONs through this process, in particular Upper Sixth tutors, Heads of Department, Mr Pearce, Mr Croston, Mr Peters and Mrs Meader.


As is the norm at this point in the year, many universities are still making decisions on which applicants to offer places to. Another onward routes update early next term will share some offers that come in in the next six weeks.


We congratulate all pupils on their university offers and offers for apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships received so far. We hope these pupils will understand that the size of the Upper 6 year group means we cannot announce every offer in cathedral. The offers being read out are those that required additional hurdles on top of the UCAS form.


The school’s Apply Plus Programme is run by Mr Pearce. It supports pupils applying to academic courses that require admissions tests and/or interviews.

Apply Plus offers so far this cycle:

Charlotte Cheung – Chemical Engineering at Manchester University

Reuben Francis – Law at Bristol, Cambridge and Durham Universities

Vera Hung – Law at Durham University

Aadith Jamadagni and Jack Rowley - Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Experience at Manchester University

Barnaby Karlson-Evans – Law at Durham University

Freddie Miller – Maths and Statistics at Warwick University

Joschka Molenaar – Mathematics at Cambridge University and Mathematics with a Year Abroad at Imperial College London

Sean O’Malley – Classics at Oxford University

Sophia Roy - Assyriology at Oxford University

Alethea Tweddle – Common Law and English Literature at Glasgow University

Leuka Ye – Mathematics at Imperial College London

Lily Yu - Geology at Imperial College London


Offers to study highly competitive medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine courses: these all require interviews, with most requiring an admissions test as well

Mary Amaka-Maidoh – Medicine at Exeter University and KCL (King’s College London)

Arshia Bhatia – Medicine at KCL and Sheffield University

Georgia Hodgson – Medicine at Cambridge, Imperial and UEA

Dev Kamath – Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University

Rahul Kaushal – Medicine at Manchester University

Elain Law – Veterinary Medicine at RVC (Royal Veterinary College)

Freya Osborne – Veterinary Medicine at Edinburgh, Liverpool, RVC and Surrey Universities

Adi Santosh (ON) – Medicine at Plymouth University and UEA

Grace Yeo – Medicine at Imperial and Manchester University


Offers to study other vocational courses which require interviews:

Claudia Davidson (ON) – Primary Education at Reading University

Billy Francis – Physiotherapy at Essex, Hertfordshire, Plymouth and Sheffield Hallam Universities

Beth Herring – Chemistry with Teaching at Strathclyde University

Kiki Lau – Diagnostic Radiography at Liverpool University

Anson Tam – Physiotherapy at UEA, Liverpool, Salford and Southampton Universities

Bosco Tang – Physiotherapy at Liverpool and Southampton Universities

Natalie Tso – Occupational Therapy at Brunel, Coventry, UEA and Liverpool Universities


Offers to study creative courses that required submission of a portfolio or video of the pupil’s work and/or auditions:

George Bellinghall and Berry Ward – Film and Moving Image Production at NUA (Norwich University of the Arts)

Edward Chan – Architecture at Manchester University

Lily Fairweather – Graphic Design with Professional Placement at Falmouth University

Isabel Girling (ON) – Musical Theatre at the University of West London

Ben Hawes – Furniture and Product Design at Chelsea College of Art (part of University of the Arts, London)

Isabella Kirby – Filmmaking at Arts University Bournemouth

Nathanael Lindner – Architecture at York University

Isabelle Mardle – Architecture at Sheffield Hallam University

Yona McDonnell – Product and Furniture Design at Kingston University

Coni Meade – Design with Placement year at Loughborough University

Alvaro Smoolenaars-Garcia – Design for Sustainable Innovation at Warwick University

Jacob Stevenson -Fashion Marketing and Content Creation at the London College of Fashion (part of UAL) starting in 2026 after a level 4 Digital Marketing for Fashion Diploma at the London Retail Academy

Hannah Thornley – Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University


A number of pupils have been selected for final round auditions for highly competitive performing arts courses; we wish them all the best with these and will share successes at the start of next term.


Offers to study at universities abroad:

Edward Chan – Architecture at Hong Kong University

Ava deCooper Wride – full rugby scholarship for Quinnipiac University (USA)

Helen Ng – Computer Science at UST, (University of Science and Technology), Hong Kong

Uma Patel – Dentistry at the Universidad Catolica de Valencia (Spain)

Bosco Tang - Business at UST (University of Science and Technology), Hong Kong


Non university destinations:

A number of pupils have applied directly to employer for positions such apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships; gaining these highly competitive positions can involve up to three rounds of tests and interviews.

Isaac Betts - accountancy apprenticeship with Lovewell Blake

Hugo Pattinson - engineering degree apprenticeship with Airbus

Archie Taylor - accountancy degree apprenticeship with Price Bailey


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