School hails its students’ success as ten sixth formers set sights on Cambridge

The students, from the independent St Peter’s School in York, will be going on to study a range of arts, sciences and humanities.

The pupils include Will Coidan, offered natural sciences at Homerton; Jenny Frazer, offered medicine at Trinity Hall; Jonathan Fry, offered law at Peterhouse; Emily Gray, offered classics at Magdalene; Shu Him Ha, offered classics at St John’s; Lucy Mahon, offered law at Sidney Sussex; Luka Pajovic, offered architecture at trinity; Sam Philpott, offered natural sciences at Girton; Alexander Reeds, offered modern and medieval languages at Christ’s; and Kate Shaw, offered music at Sidney Sussex.

All of these succesful applicants are currently in their final year of the sixth form at St Peter’s School, apart from Lucy Mahon, who is currently on a gap year at London law firm Pinsent Masons, and Kate Shaw, who is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music.

The school’s headmaster Leo Winkley said: “It was recently reported that Oxbridge applications are currently up 
four per cent on last year. Competition for places is extremely fierce, so we’re very pleased to have so many successful applicants this year. The breadth of subjects is also very heartening, with a large variety of disciplines being represented in the pupils’ choices. I’m delighted that our pupils are displaying such curiosity about the world when they leave us.”

Penny Bollands, head of careers at St Peter’s, welcomed the news of the student’s success. She added: “We send more than half of our pupils to a wide range of international and Russell Group universities, but the priority for us is in helping every pupil to find a course and university that is the right fit for them.”