Alumni

We are very proud of our former students. Any ex student who would like to share their achievements with us since leaving Pyrland School, please contact Mr Bernard on mbernard@pyrlandschool.com

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We look forward to hearing from you.

We are very happy to see that former student James Hibbert, who won a scholarship to King’s College Taunton, is a great ambassador for Pyrland. He is very excited to attend Six Form to study for his BTEC in sport.

Earlier this year James was given the Harry Burden Bursary Award for promising young cricketers. He plays for the Somerset County Cricket Pathway U16s, as well as representing the county’s U15s and U18s. At club level James scored his maiden senior century, scoring 117 off 92 balls for Taunton CC 2nd XI and captained the U15 team to a league win, not losing any of their games.

Former student Courtney Young was one of Richard Huish College’s outstanding Applied Science BTEC students, who achieved D*D*D* – the highest possible grade.

Courtney is now off to study veterinary science – a huge step towards her dream career.

On results day at Richard Huish College in 2025, former students shared a variety of plans for their next steps:

Keely Clunie will be entering full time employment.

Millie Baker is set to begin an apprenticeship.

Miles Chiplen is planning career as a probation officer.

Brooklyn Lee Baker is considering university

Well done to Kye Smalldon, who is joining the RAF after leaving Richard Huish College.

Ryan left Pyrland with eight GCSEs. Since leaving, he has attended Bridgwater and Taunton College and has completed a two year BTEC national diploma in Sports Coaching and was awarded a merit grade. He went to South Africa for two weeks coaching children out in the townships with the college. They took out sports equipment and clothing for the children they coached.

He has in his time at college played for the U18s team, who were runners up in the Southwest Counties Youth League, also played for the Men’s 1^st team at BTC and was awarded Coaches’ Player for the Men’s 1s football. He has now started a Level 2 electrical course which will lead on to an apprenticeship next year to become a qualified electrician and has started playing semi-professional football for Wellington men’s first team.

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Congratulations to former student Joshua Naish, who achieved three distinction stars in his BTEC at Richard Huish College. He will be off to Portsmouth Uni to study film production.

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We are very proud of our former students at Richard Huish College, who did do so well with their A Level and BTEC results in 2024.

Special mention goes to Alex Bulloso, who got A*s in Maths, Further Maths, Biology, Chemistry and EPQ. He will be studying medicine at Cambridge University.

Tiana Priest got three As and is taking a gap year before studying Law.

Leon Prowse is also planning to go to university.

Mason Collard plans to do apprenticeships in either engineering or 3D printing.

Congratulations to former Pyrland student Reagan Gallager, who won silver in the British Swimming National Championships. He is now a student at Richard Huish College

Former student Sienna Kayes has been in touch to tell us about her foreign travels and progress since leaving in 2021. Sienna studied French, Geography and RPE before leaving to study an International Baccalaureate.

She told us: “I do maths, literature, chemistry, biology, psychology and Spanish. Spanish is definitely my favourite subject and psychology is a very close second. There are only seven people in my year group in the course which I really love and I’ve made some great friends.”

As part of her course Sienna had to complete 50 hours of volunteering so last summer she travelled to India to spend two weeks helping in a hospital. She rounded off the experience with a trip to the Himalayas – and all while just 17 years old!

Huge congratulations to former student George Mannu, who graduated from Cardiff University as a doctor of medicine, following a five year degree. His proud mum Mandy sent us this photo and said: “It shows that hard work pays off and that the academy always has had a great cohort of students. Many thanks.” We wish Dr George Mannu MBBCh all the best in his future career.

Congratulations to former pupil Matt Betteridge who gained a first in his Law degree. We are all very proud of you Matt (especially his mum, who sent us this lovely photo!)