TWO students from Haslingden High School’s sixth form will be spending a week of their summer holiday at Cambridge University.

Declan King and Brady Phillips, both 17, will spend time on campus studying at a prestigious summer school after being nominated by the director of sixth form, Simon Heaton. Declan, from Stacksteads, will study mechanical engineering and physics while Brady, from Haslingden, is going to be studying physics and maths.

Declan said: “We were appr-oached by the director of sixth form a month ago and he said he was putting our names forward for the summer school based on our predicted grades in our AS levels. We also had to write a supp-orting statement and we got the places.”

In their GCSEs, both Declan and Brady got A*s for maths and physics. Declan said he was hoping to study engineering or physics at university and would like to be an engineer, while Brady hopes to study mathematics and work in finance.

They both said they may well consider applying to Cambridge after they have experienced the summer school.