Visual Arts
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2 students from the visual arts department have
designed and implemented an arts competition for all staff and students in the
college. Participants are encouraged to
produce a piece of art work and the competition will run as part of the
Hereward Festival
Sports
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Staff and students from the department
successfully hosted the regional ability counts football tournament at the
college on Friday 26th April.
20 Hereward students took part in the event as competitors, organisers,
timekeepers, officials (Matt Jarvis referee). 6 other colleges from the region
attended the event, which was a huge success.
Performance & Music
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The Band music competition is gathering pace and
students from the music department are busily preparing for the event with
independent rehearsals and gig preparation.
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Students from the dance department are involved
in supported an LSIS employability awareness day. The students will be performing a flash mob
dance as part of the day which has been jointly organised by staff and students
from Hereward along with other schools and colleges in the region.
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The Arts Award is up and running for this term
which involves 6 students gaining valuable life and employment skills via all
arts forms. This is being led by Zoe
Hopkins with a view to being rolled out to more students from September. The arts award has strengthened our links
with key partners such as The Warwick Arts Centre.
Employability
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Employability Stats – 5 students during the
month of April have undertaken a successful external work experience placement
– Notable Corey Scott had a very successful placement at the Coventry Council
House Electoral services. Corey has
received excellent feedback from the placement including a glowing report from
an external training company that attended the council house whilst Corey was
on placement.
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To date there have been 37 successful external
placements with more planned in the summer term.
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External placements - S: drive, Allusers, Work
experience photographs 2012-13
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16 students applied and were successful at
interview for roles at the forthcoming ‘The Band’ competition. Students gained valuable employability skills
and experiences as part of this process.
Business & ICT
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The young enterprise group led by Una Moore and
Ingrid terry have won 2 awards for their enterprise work this year. The group attended a regional awards ceremony
on Wednesday 24th April at Coventry University.
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A group of students from the department have won
a national competition for their project relating to the money for life
scheme. At the final they were joined by
5 other regional finalists runners up, two representatives from the team have also
been invited to London to compete for the UK People’s Prize. – Fantastic achievement
Functional Skills Department
The online Functional Skills tests have begun and we had a number of
passes at Level 1 & 2 for English and Maths. Successful learners this time
were: David Williams, Nick Brennan, Martin Bamber, James Batchelor, Nathan
Grainger, Timi Sosan, James Stewart, Alex Nemar, Chris Cotton (x2), Oliver
Baskaran, Robbie Fleming, Alex Sutton, Cameron Wood, Jacob Jones. Well done
everyone!
Entry level programmes
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Jon Gaulton and James Rowlatt from the Entry level
3 Skills for Working life Horticulture and Floristry course have been offered a
day work placement at Ryton Gardens with Andrea Jones who has been teaching the
course one day per week. They will be going over to Ryton Gardens on 13th
May where they will be designing the growing beds at the entrance to the
gardens. This will also give them the opportunity to gain an extra
qualification through Ryton Gardens at level 1. This will be a huge achievement
for them.
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Both year one and year two of the skills for
working life and independence course will be given work experience at Ryton
Gardens for a day again with Andrea and will be building a clay oven. They will
be given a day pass for the summer holiday to go back and make pizzas using the
oven. Andrea is keen to get the press involved in this as she feels that it has
been her most successful project working with the students this year and would
like to showcase what the student have been doing. She would like for Siobhan
Mason or/and Katie Howell to be involved in the photo shoot.
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Two entry one learners from the Personal
Progress course made it through to gain a position for The Band day. Richard
Hines will be working as a catering assistant and Liam Clarke as an MC. This is
a huge achievement for them both.
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On Wednesday 1st May Personal
Progress students had a sports morning where they took part in various games
which they had been learning and practicing their skills for over the academic
year with the physiotherapy department.
All students received a medal for taking part.
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Personal Progress group 4 went to watch Allen
Marston practicing his gymnastics. Students went with Hannah Bradley, Elise McDowell
and Rachel Holtom. Students enjoyed the evening and AJ’s parents were really
happy to see his peers showing support for him.
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Josie Shingler, Mouaz Mohammed, Richard Hines
and Prasant Patel have been given the opportunity to visit a school and have a
look and a go at rebound therapy.
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