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Wednesday 24 Mar 2021 |
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7:00 PM - 7:45 PM |
After the success of the 2020 career seminars we have now scheduled another series beginning in January 2021.
These forty-five minute sessions will give current pupils and recent leavers the chance to hear from, and question, a panel of experts who can offer a broad, and in depth, understanding of the featured profession. The panel will be drawn from our community, including alumni and current parents all at different stages of their careers.
These sessions are open to all students from LV to UVI, as well as to all parents and alumni. They will be of particular interest to current students who are considering their future careers, as well as undergraduates or those thinking of changing direction.
Seminars will take place live on Microsoft Teams, the link to join is above. Questions can be asked via the chat function during the session on MS Teams.
All seminars will be live from 7.00 – 7.45. A recording will also be available afterwards on the media server and Solihull Community.
The Careers and Alumni Relations Departments at Solihull work closely together to support our students and alumni. We are pleased to offer this series of seminars, which will sit alongside our programme of remote Careers and UCAS provision, and we are grateful to all from our Solihull Community who will enable these to take place.
We do hope that you are able to join us for these seminars.
With good wishes
Mrs Rhian Chillcott (Head of Careers) Ms Lucy Lunt (Director of Development and Alumni Relations)
Click here for the MS Teams link for you to join at 7.00pm on Wednesday 12 May 2021
Biographies for the Architecture panelist ;
John Abbott (Windsor, 1973 - 1980) is now a Director and shareholder of Seymour Harris Partnership, a international company that’s projects include St David’s Hall in Cardiff and Snow Hill station and the NEC here in Birmingham. After leaving Solihull School in 1979 John went to Cardiff UWIST to study architecture and did his Post Grad Diploma at Birmingham School of Architecture at what was then Birmingham Polytechnic.
Jeremy Thornton (Shenstone, 1975 - 1982) and took an interesting and circuitous route into architecture, he went off to Swansea university to read mechanical engineering, which didn't enjoy it. He came back home to the West Midlands and took on a job with John Lewis in their construction department. They offered him an apprenticeship and he studied at Southbank University, stayed with John Lewis for over 30 years and was involved in the design of many of their flagship stores including the one in Birmingham
Stephen Simkins (Pole, 1979 - 1986) is a consultant and the joint owner of West Waddy Archadia, a multi-disciplinary design consultancy in London and Oxford providing outstanding architecture, urban design and town planning . Stephen left school in 1986, he did his degree and post graduate diploma at Oxford Brookes, what used to be Oxford Poly and spent his year out working in Singapore.
Victoria Potter (Saint Martin's Old Girl / Fetherston, 1993 - 1995) went to Manchester University for her degree in architecture and her post grad diploma at UCE. After having worked for a number of local companies she joined the family firm Cross and Craig based in Dorridge. They concentrate mainly on residential work and small scale housing projects.
