Name Clare Dery
Age 16
Star sign Pisces
Where I live Ceredigion
Type of school Comprehensive
Favourite subjects French, science
Favourite sports Swimming, tennis
Main hobbies/interests Acting, singing, astronomy
Ambition To pursue a career in science in America.
10 words that describe me Adventurous, loyal, humorous, intelligent, creative, amiable, bilingual, reliable, ambitious, committed
Why me? I'm one of the few children in the country who likes getting up early, taking cold baths and eating boiled cabbage and tapioca pudding.
What did you get out of going back in time last summer? I think the best part of the King's School experience was dissecting
a rat and an eye! I was mostly left to dissect the rat by myself, and
although I thought it was a little cruel, I was glad of the
opportunity to dissect an animal without being sick, and that's
something I've been happy to tell everyone!
I think the worst part was the work. I'd been looking forward to my
summer holidays, but instead I spent them working and getting
stressed. I somehow felt I had to do well in the exams, even though I
knew they weren't real, but I was waking up at 5am to revise for
history tests and for some of the exams. I felt run down by the
amount of work we had and also the physical education lessons we had,
since I hadn't done sports for two years and it was a shock to the
system.