Rising stage star shines in GCSEs

A TALENTED young actor and budding stage producer delivered a show-stopping performance in her GCSEs.

Ripon Grammar School student Katy Thody, 16, from Risplith outside Harrogate, achieved an impressive eleven grade 9s alongside one grade 8.

The teenager, who has taken a leading role in school productions, recently stepped behind the curtain to direct her first play at RGS, Jungle Book, which was performed to the public.

Having also juggled her studies with being a Brownie young leader and working part-time at an ice cream parlour, her advice to current students is: “Start revising early and keep doing a little every day. I did lots of past papers and took breaks.”

Planning to study maths, chemistry, biology and history at A-level, Katy, who took part in a week-long science programme for Year 10 students at the University of York last year, hopes to study medicine or biochemistry at university.