A Worcester high school hosted an event to explore the world of cyber security and coding.

Nunnery Wood High School hosted the city's first Cyber Horizons event along with year 8 girls from Tudor Grange Academy, Christopher Whitehead, The Chantry School, Bishop Perowne and Blessed Edward taking part.

The aim of the workshops was to highlight to girls the possible careers that are available to them.

Pupils in school groups rotated round six local and national companies, including QinetiQ, Savient and the Regional Cyber Crime Unit.

They spent half an hour with each one, completing tasks such as cracking code, programming cars round a race track and testing password security.

At the beginning of the session only two of ninety pupils wanted to work in the cyber industry. By the end of the event this had risen to 95 per cent expressing an interest.

During the sessions many of the pupils were identified as being "extremely talented individuals". This lead to several being offered work experience in year 10.

One pupil was even offered a potential job once she completes her A-Levels, and a possible sponsorship through a degree.

Tony Stephens, computing and business teacher at Nunnery Wood, hailed the event as “hugely successful.”

One of the Nunnery Wood Year 8 girls, Charlotte Mason-Bedford, said: “Today has changed my life.”