St Edward's Rhubarb - 2018

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Scheme with a job offer at the end of her course. Dannii also won an award at Brunel University for Female Engineer of the Year. Dannii is now working full time at Renishaw as a Graduate Manufacturing Electronic Engineer and has completed her probationary period successfully and has also volunteered and been trained to become an ambassador to encourage other young people into the field of engineering particularly women and will be visiting schools with Renishaw. Deya Ward-Niblett (D, 2008-2013) went straight from Teddies to the University of Leeds to study Zoology. During her time there she was part of the television society and a writer and editor for the university science magazine. In her third year, she applied to be the long term communications volunteer for Dr Birute Galdikas (who worked with Jane Goodall and Dianne Fossey) at the Orangutan Foundation International Care Centre and Quarantine in a village called Pasir Panjang in Central Kalimantan, Borneo. The application process took a year. Deya began her tenure in December 2016 working with an all-Indonesian staff and interacting with the orangutans of all ages. Responsible for the communications for the organisation, she acted as its ‘voice’ (filming, photography, writing stories for the newsletters and blogs, assisting in vet reports and records). Upon returning to the UK in July 2017 and before beginning an MA in Wildlife Filmmaking based in Bristol, she signed up for the South Coast Challenge - a gruelling ultra-marathon 100km which follows the beautiful coastline from Eastbourne to Arundel via Brighton. Deya is now studying in Bristol and working on her final project which will be a film that she will create back in Pasir Panjang with the orangutans alongside Dr Galdikas and the Orangutan Foundation International. 2014 Megan Brittan (M, 2008-2014) has completed an English Literature degree at the University of Warwick and embarked upon a career in film production. Her credits to date include production roles for commercials, campaign spots, short films and a feature film both on-set and in the development process. She is currently in the process of setting up a production company and fixing a final draft for her

has been studying Classical Civilisation. She hopes to stay on for a Master’s degree. She spent two successful years coxing for ULBC, competing widely and winning Women’s Henley. She was awarded a half purple for services to University of London Boat club. She has now moved to London Rowing Club where she coxes the first VIII and is looking forward to another competitive summer. Anastasia Fabian-Hunt (M, 2013- 2015) has been offered a place to study medicine at Manchester University starting September 2018. 2016 Theodore Barker (C, 2011-2016) and Louis Wright (C, 2011-2016) received their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award at Buckingham Palace in November 2017. Isabelle Rayner (M, 2011-2016) also recently received her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award at Buckingham Palace in May 2018. 2017 James Burr (G, 2012-2017), Elizabeth Dorey (K, 2015-2017), Nick Healy (F, 2012-2017) and Noah Phipps (H, 2012-2017) attended their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award presentation at Buckingham Palace in May 2018. William Webb (H, 2012-2017) climbed Imja Tse, a 6189m Himalayan peak in April 2018.

first feature project as a screenwriter. In May, she attended Cannes Film Festival as a writer for a Comic Con Project. Theo Gerrard-Anderson (E, 2009- 2014) has won a Thouron Fellowship to do his PhD in nano chemistry at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology/Chemistry Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Flossie Pugh (D, 2009-2014) has continued to go from strength to strength. Her performance in Lady Macbeth earned her a nomination for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award. She starred in The Commuter , an action thriller starring Liam Neeson in early 2018, appeared alongside Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in Fighting with my Family  and will portray Elizabeth de Burgh in Outlaw King to be released later this year. She played Cordelia in a BBC TV film version of King Lear that featured Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Jim Broadbent and Christopher Eccleston. Flossie has also won the starring role in the BBC TV adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel The Little Drummer Girl . 2015 Lucia Azzi (N, 2013-2015) was nominated in the category of Most Influential Female Student of the Year in The Tab Future 100. She came second overall and was voted the 3rd year winner.

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Meg Neville (D, 2010-2015) is in her final year at King’s College London where she

Lucia Azzi

William Webb