Belle Vue Girls' Academy aims to maintain strong links with our alumni (former students) and employees  ​to bring the community together. Whether you've just graduated or recently got married or wherever you are in your life, please keep in touch​.​​

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Farzana Khan

After leaving school, I started at college studying tourism industry. I later received a degree at Central Lancashire in International Hospitality Management. I worked in China, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Sweden for a period of 4 years in the Service and Finance industries, returning to Bradford to complete my Masters Degree in International Business Management. I enjoyed working on the biggest marketing campaign in Bradford Council history and felt I was giving something back to the city. With my interest in Politics I am now at Oxford University working on my PhD and happily married with 2 children.





Dieuni Welihinda

Having arrived half way through an academic year, I had to complete two years of work in one year. The support and guidance I received from the staff at Belle Vue helped me complete my GCSEs successfully and then pick up A Levels in History, Sociology and English Literature. In a gap year I undertook both paid employment and voluntary work. As one of the very first members of the Bradford Youth Action team for V-involved I helped promote youth volunteering across the Bradford district. I went on to study British Politics and Legislative Studies at Hull University. I started my internship as researcher to the shadow foreign office minister Stephen Twigg from September 2011. This will give me the privilege of walking the corridors of power for a year, and experience party politics at first hand. In fact she completed her dream last year with Stephen Twigg MP; Dieuni Welihinda BPLS Intern for the Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg MP 2011/12  "When I started the internship I didn’t have high hopes of getting a lot of responsibility. However a few days into the internship I found myself being left in charge of policy correspondences, then Stephen’s diary following his promotion to the shadow cabinet. After a few hectic months of managing his diary, I was then given the responsibility of doing all the frontbench correspondences. My time with Stephen has been a thoroughly enjoyable and a challenging time, during which I learned a lot of new skills. I also got the privilege to accompany him on various visits and to work closely with the shadow education team. My advice to all future interns would be to carry out all given tasks from tea making to drafting correspondences to the best of your ability. If you earn the trust of your boss and staff, your internship will certainly be one that you will always cherish in years to come." ​





Nipuni Welihinda

With help and guidance of staff at Belle Vue I managed to achieve 8A*s- Cs at GCSE despite arriving half way through the academic year. I then studied Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics at A Level. After leaving school I took a gap year during which I worked full time with people with challenging behaviour whilst being part of the V-involved Youth Action Team, promoting Youth Volunteering across Bradford. I then went on to study at St George’s Medical School, London. There I held the position of Head of Events in the Teddy Bear Hospital Society, which educates primary school children about medical procedures. I am currently involved in a summer dissection programme which includes dissecting human cadavers for the benefit of new medical students. I will soon be starting a BSc research project on “human-specific bacteriophage in MRSA” which will help provide a future solution desinged to overcome MRSA.