Visage Spring-Summer 2024

trustees of EYLA
David Ejim-McCubbin
Chair of EYLA Trustees
Head of Policy and
Advocacy, Social Mobility
Commission; (Alumnus)
Pelumi Agbedejobi
Finance Analyst, TD
Securities; (Alumnus)
Tom Carroll
Principal, Freshstream
Manon Dave
Chief Product & Design
Officer at Mind Valley;
Songwriter and producer,
7Wallace/Universal Music
Adrian Deazle
Senior Vice President,
Enterprise Risk
Management
Marcus Kerr
Software developer;
(Alumnus)
Giles Marshall
Managing Director,
Searchlight Capital
Partners
Keza Nganga
Medicine Undergraduate,
Cardiff University;
(Alumnus)
Thomas Tharakan
Associate General Counsel,
Global Infrastructure
Partners
Misa von Tunzelman
Head of Corporate Affairs
& Marketing - Europe,
Lendlease
eyla 2024
calendar
APRIL
2nd – 12th
MAY
28th – 31st
JULY
23rd
Easter holidays
Summer half-term
Start of summer holidays
AUGUST
15th A-Level results
22nd
SEPTEMBER
7th
GCSE results and Eastside
graduation
Start of Autumn term
Leadership Programme
PUZZLE ANSWERS
BRITISH BLACK HISTORY
1 Diane Abbott
2 The White Lion
3 Mary Seacole
4 Linford Christie
5 Liverpool’s Penny Lane
6 Grace Jones
7 Claudia Jones
8 Leon Spinks
9 HMT Empire Windrush
10 Andrea Levy
11 John Boyega
12 Andrea Levy
13 “Desmond’s”
14 Dame Kelly Holmes
15 Race or ethnic origin
16 David Olusoga
17 The Runnymede Trust
18 A slave who bought his freedom
and campaigned for the
abolition of slavery
19 Stormzy
20 Zaha Hadid
WACKY WORDY PUZZLE
1 Pie in the sky
2 Growing pains
3 Trafalgar Square
4 Wide awake
5 Bridge over Troubled Water
6 Mixed metaphor
7 High School
8 Add insult to injury
9 Foot in the door
10 Green with envy
11 A house divided
12 Crossed wires
13 The mind’s eye
14 Negative attitude
15 He came out of nowhere
16 Back to basics
17 Parting of the ways
18 6 of 1 and half a dozen
of the other
19 Grandstanding
20 The price is right
21 Swear on the Bible
22 Lying down on the job
23 Railroad crossing
24 Corner the market
25 Hole in one
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