helena jaconelli
A Levels: Fine Art Sculpture, Product Design and Maths. After S6F: Helena studied Architecture at Pembroke College, Cambridge for 2 years and was then was accepted onto the Management Studies Tripos, which is a course that can be taken by current third or fourth year students at Cambridge. Helena has been working at Arcadia Group in the Head Offi ce of Dorothy Perkins for nearly two years now as a Merchandising Assistant on the Bags and Purses department. “I love my job and the teams that I have worked with, I feel like I am constantly learning, and the freebies are great!”
john dickenson
A Levels: Geography and Economics After S6F: John completed a degree in Geography and Town Planning at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He now works for the fastest growing Oilfi eld specialty chemical supplier and has his own customer account to work on.
kyra beanland
To read more about how they achieved their goals, go to
http://s6f.org.uk/achievements/
A Levels: Art, English Literature and Psychology After S6F: Kyra did a Foundation Diploma at Westwood College Scarborough then studied Costume Design for Theatre at The Arts University at Bournemouth. Kyra has worked at Monomoy Theatre in Cape Cod, Massachussetts and is now in her fi nal year of a Master of Fine Arts programme at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. “Anything is possible if you put yourself in the right place and the right state of mind.”
14 melanie leng
A Levels: Physics, Maths and Geology After S6F: Melanie took a degree in Earth Sciences and then a PhD in Geology at the University of Aberystwyth. Subsequently, Melanie got a position at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham and is now head of Environmental Change Research at the BGS. Melanie is also Professor of Isotope Geosciences at the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester. “By following your passion and working hard, our lives can be very rich. And fi nally…don’t worry if you are not a straight A student (I wasn’t), the World can be your oyster, or in my case a Devil’s toenail (a fossil oyster!)…”
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