Mike Amis
1960's

After too many years I decided to look up my old school and found your interesting site. The memories it brought back have had me deep in thought for days. I have mixed feelings about the school (having always been a bit of a rebel) but nevertheless it was good to see the old pictures. I was there from 1957 to 1962, leaving to go to Thorpe Grammar and then on to Norwich Art School. My name at Wymondham was Brian Atkinson, but it was changed at age 16 to Brian Sutherland.

I studied Art during the 60's Joined a rock band and spent years touring Europe, returning to England to take up my art again. I've done some interesting things including working for the Disney Channel as an animator, Channel 4 and hosting an Arts programme for the BBC in Cornwall where I now live. In fact I was born here. I am now in semi-retirement but still painting like there's no tomorrow. I live with with my lovely wife Rosie, a retired greyhound called Ted, and Merlin and Morwenna our two Cornish cats.

After leaving the college he studied for a BA degree in Archaeology at the University of Winchester from where he graduated in 2008. During a belated gap year he worked in Waitrose before travelling around the United States with another ex-student, Michael Kerridge.

In September 2009 he started the intensive year of training to be an Army Officer at Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.  He passed out on Friday 13th August 2010 at the Sovereign's Parade where the Prime Minister, David Cameron acted as Queen's representative.  He has been commissioned into the First Battalion, Royal Welsh.  At the end of August he will be starting further training at the Platoon Commander's Course in Brecon before joining the regiment in Chester in January 2010. The regiment is due to start a tour of duty in Afghanistan in April 2012.

Melvyn and Hilary Elias [Parents] 

Joseph Hayes was a pupil at Wymondham College 6th form (he is now 22). His work 'Memory' was picked for Norwich 'ShopArt' which is currently being shown all over the city. His show is on at Westlegate and is a video installation and runs till the end of November 2010.

He graduated from Sheffield Hallam July 2010..

Those who remember Shaun McKee, former Head Boy (Kett/Lincoln), 1997-2004, may wish to know that he has joined the National Theatre, having been accepted into the company after successfully auditioning for War Horse. He is in rehearsal and will be performing at the National in War Horse as of March 2011. He studied A-level Drama with Claire Foreman before going on to study Drama at Manchester.

He is part of the duo acting out the animal. It involves him being rather caged in horse’s form for much of his extensive time on stage. In effect, he is up front and someone else is at the rear. Officially, Shaun is playing “the horse’s heart”. Quite what part of the horse the actor at the rear plays we can only speculate!

He took a 2:1 in Economics from Edinburgh, before doing a MSc, also at Edinburgh. He then worked for Citibank in London, and now works for them in New York.