Bounty

A 19-year-old mother-of-two who has achieved A-level grades that will take her to university says motherhood has never been a barrier to her education.

After leaving school to have her first child at the age of 15, Natasha Hall completed a First Diploma for IT Practitioners. Her second daughter was born just three days before her AS-level exams.

She returned after the summer break to complete her A-levels at Tresham College of Further and Higher Education, Northants.

The teenager has collected two C grades in business and history A-levels, an A in psychology AS level, and a C in sociology AS level. She is heading off to De Montfort University in Leicester, her first-choice university, to study psychology.

Natasha says she has managed to successfully balance her studies with taking care of daughters Amelia and Sienna.

"I never saw it as particularly difficult. It's what I wanted to do so I didn't see why I should stop just because I have had two kids," she said.

"I've had to figure out childcare but I've just got on with it. I suppose it has been hard but I have never really noticed. I just had to find another way to do it."

She added: "I don't see it as a struggle, I've never struggled. You just make sacrifices."

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