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Celebrating Worthing College Summer 2012

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FANTASTIC WIN AT FE AWARDS Three Worthing College students, Sulagna Roy, Toby Benham and Craig Bichard have won top awards at the prestigious Sussex FE Awards ceremony.

All 12 Sussex FE Colleges submitted entries to this tough competition in which the judges said they were looking for students who had shown outstanding commitment to their education.

The Chief Executive of FE Sussex reported that every year the number and standard of entries goes up and that this years’ winners represented the cream of Sussex students who will become experts in their respective fields in the not too distant future. The key-note speaker, ex-chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion Dick Knight, opened the enjoyable awards evening at the Brighton Hilton Metropole with an engaging and informative speech.

Toby Benham, ex-Durrington High School, was crowned the 2012 FE Sussex Learner of the Year in tribute to his hard work and commitment. Toby achieved 4 A* grades at A Level along with the top Distinction grade in his Pre-U. He also impressed judges with his full marks in all five of his final A2 exams, his membership of the winning maths academy team at the Surrey University Maths Team Challenge and his many hours of peer mentoring

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Editorial Welcome to the third edition of the exciting new Worthing College newsletter, Celebrating Worthing College, dedicated to celebrating all the fantastic achievements of students and staff at Worthing College. In this edition we celebrate winning prestigious awards at the FE Sussex spring awards at the Hilton Metropole on 29 March.

We also celebrate a double success for the Academy of Mathematics as they won the Surrey Business Challenge and we celebrate yet again various sports awards in football and netball at county cup level. And if all that wasn’t enough we can at long last celebrate achieving planning permission for our move to new, bigger and better premises at the Warren which was confirmed on 29 February

by Worthing Borough Council Planning Committee.

So after a hugely successful spring at Worthing College, we begin the summer full of hope and confidence. I do hope you enjoy reading about these successes and much more in this edition of Celebrating Worthing College.

Caroline Pickup Editor

CONTENTS Moving to The Warren............3 More maths success..............4 Science Challenge................5 Medical Conference..............6 Enterprising students...............7 Health and Social Care..........8 Healthy Living Day...................9 ESOL......................................10 Battle of the Bands................11 Nursery news.........................16 A win, win, win situation.........17

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SPRING FE AWARDS (cont)

Craig, Sulagna and Toby at the Awards ceremony whilst at Worthing College. Toby who is currently studying Chemistry at Bristol University thanked his teachers for their role in his success.

Sulagna Roy, ex-Chatsmore Catholic High School, won the AQA Sussex Learner of the Year. This prestigious award acknowledges the amazing commitment that Sulagna has shown to her studies despite tremendously difficult personal circumstances.

Sulagna impressed judges with her tenacious attitude, her generosity of spirit and her commitment to college life. Sulagna is a course representative, an active member of the Student Parliament, a member of the Equality and Diversity Group and a peer mentor. She is delighted to have been offered a place to study medicine at Southampton University and is currently working hard for her final A Level exams.

Craig Bichard, ex-Chatsmore Catholic High School, was recognised for outstanding progression to HE with the runner up award in this category.

Craig started at Worthing College with three GCSE passes and left four years later with impressive qualifications including an A* grade in A Level Government and Politics.

Craig is now studying Politics at Nottingham Trent University and is enjoying both his studies and the social life.

All the staff of Worthing College join in congratulating these students.

Peter Corrigan, College Principal, said: “We are extremely proud of the achievements of our students in winning these awards. All three students have worked so hard to achieve outstanding academic results and are now progressing to University.”

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Planning permission finalised for move to The Warren 2012 is living up to its leap year status for Worthing College! On February 29th the College took another giant step forward by securing planning permission for its move to bigger and better premises at The Warren.

Worthing Borough Council’s Planning Committee gave its unanimous support to plans which involve the redevelopment of existing buildings at The Warren, an 18 acre universitystyle campus in a parkland setting.

“These new facilities will be inspirational and will encourage our students to achieve their very best” enthused Principal Peter Corrigan, after delighted College students, staff and governors left the Town Hall meeting. “We know this move will be very popular with students and parents throughout Worthing”, continued Peter, “and we expect this great news will boost applications which are already at an all-time record level.”

So the message is simple! Apply now and be one of the first to enjoy all that the new Worthing College at The Warren has to offer.

Inside, state of the art facilities will include: • Really spacious classrooms • Large well-equipped laboratories • Curriculum learning zones to provide new and exciting ways to learn • An extensive library • Two large social and recreational areas •

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A dedicated Performing Arts Centre for dance, music, drama and musical theatre Extensive sport and recreational facilities.

See www.worthing.ac.uk for further details.

Left: College Principal Peter Corrigan with Chair of Governors Lance Allen and Worthing College students after the announcement at the Town Hall

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DOUBLE SUCCESS FOR ACADEMY OF MATHEMATICS AS THEY WIN

SURREY BUSINESS CHALLENGE

winning the top prize for the 2nd year running it was agreed that their performances were simply out of this world!

The winning team members: Ashley Willmott, Remy Naylor, Dexter Rudram and James Brackin with Maths teacher Neil Turner.

Worthing College Academy of Mathematics has won the highly prized Surrey Business Challenge, held at Surrey University for the 2nd year in a row.

Sponsored by Surrey Space Centre, Coutts Bank and Vodafone, the Surrey Business challenge - a series of difficult and highly complex tasks set by the three sponsors - is based around the three applications of mathematics: Mechanics, Statistics and Decision Maths.

Two teams from the Academy of Mathematics won awards. The Decision Maths Challenge set by

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The Academy of Mathematics provides aspiring and talented young mathematicians with the opportunity to access top quality teaching at a college with excellent mathematics provision. The teaching team includes A Level examiners and text book authors with high levels of expertise and exam board knowledge. The college is dedicated to encouraging young mathematicians and offering them the very best possible opportunities to develop their skills.

Vodafone – a task about the routing of text messages most efficiently and devising a pricing structure for texting based on the speed of delivery - was won by one team, with the other team, who took on the Surrey Space Centre Challenge ending up as overall winners. They richly deserved to land the title after an astronomical performance tackling a task which involved the problems surrounding playing a game of golf on the moon!

The teams were judged on their ability to work as a team, their mathematical accuracy and the 10 minute presentation they gave on their tasks at the end of the day. After

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The appliance of science: Worthing College Science Challenge proves to be a worthwhile experiment On March 15th Worthing College hosted the inaugural ‘Worthing Science Challenge Cup Competition’ as part of National Science and Engineering week. The college invited local schools to send teams of their best young scientists in a series of challenges based around scientific disciplines.

The local schools competing included St.Andrews, Davison and Angmering and the event was organised and run by the science department at Worthing College.

The disciplines included Biology, Pschology, Geology, Chemistry and Physics, and all of the challenges were set to a high level in order to give students a good idea about the methods employed in studying the subjects beyond GCSE.

Durrington High School students compete in the chemistry challenge

Each challenge was scored and teams were awarded points based on their position. Throughout the day the competition was very close.

The victors were announced after the final event in the chemistry lab when St Andrews CE High School for Boys was awarded the Cup which will be held at the school for the rest of the year.

The event was organised and hosted by Worthing College staff, seen here taking a moment to reflect on their success

St Andrews CE High School for Boys are presented with the trophy

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MEDICAL CONFERENCE JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED FOR ASPIRING MEDICAL STUDENTS

Vocational Experience and Voluntary Work

jobclub open A brand new Worthing College initiative opened on Monday April 23rd, run by Julia Flynn to help students interested in finding work and looking into potential voluntary work and employment opportunities.

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It’s sweet to tweet

Callum Hammond, Rachel Austin and Josephine Lamb at the conference At the invitation of Worthing College, close to 100 A-level students from across the county came together in March at a conference at Worthing Hospital. Held at the Post-Graduate Medical School, the conference gave the 16-17 year-old aspiring medical students the opportunity to find out more about the realities of a doctor’s working life, as well as guidance on getting a university place. Talks and seminars were delivered by hospital staff and former Worthing College students now on medical degree courses, plus input from 3 current A-level students who have just been awarded medical school places.

There was also a tour behind the scenes in the A & E Department.

Co-ordinator Antony Allchin said “Worthing College is strongly committed to supporting students

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aiming for the most competitive university courses, and has an excellent record of success for medical applicants. This annual conference forms part of our regular support programme, and we are once again so grateful to all the hospital staff who made Friday such a useful and enjoyable day. I would also like to thank all our current and former Worthing College students for their informed and amusing picture of a trainee doctor’s world and the pitfalls of the application process. Thanks also go to Nicky Bainbridge from our administration team.”

Feedback on the conference was excellent (including much appreciation of the tasty lunch!), so the message is “watch this space next year, if you’re interested in studying medicine!”

Tweet for £20 There were two winning tweets.

Yasmin Yesilyurt tweeted:

“I chose to study @ Worthing College because it’s local, had amazing results from the previous year and everyone seemed friendly and helpful” Lisa Cooper tweeted: “I chose to

study @ Worthing College as it offered me a variety of subjects to choose from which let me choose the perfect combination.”

We asked you to tweet us the reason why you chose to come to Worthing College to study.

The competition was won by Yasmin Yesilyurt and Lisa Cooper who both won £20 for their tweets.

The two winning tweets in the ‘Tweet for £20’ competition were sent in by Yasmin Yesilyurt who tweeted: I chose to study at @Worthing college because its local, had amazing results from the previous year and everyone seemed friendly and helpful, and Lisa Cooper who tweeted: I chose to study at Worthing College as it offered me a variety of subjects to choose from which let me choose a perfect combination.

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Worthing College students take part in Enterprise Challenge to re-generate Worthing Lido Worthing College students have been involved in an Enterprise Challenge to create a viable business plan to regenerate the Lido. If successful, it could be taken forward

by Worthing Borough Council as part of the Worthing Masterplan for the redevelopment of the seafront.

The students gathered at the project launch on 1st February at the Lido CafĂŠ where the teams met with their mentors including volunteers from local businesses. Worthing College entered two teams mentored by Jacqui Scerri, Work Related Learning Consultant and college Governor, Brian Hughes.

Worthing Borough Council has estimated that the project should cost ÂŁ2million. It is essential that teams research Worthing Borough Council

The two teams are as follows: Jack Lloyd (Team Leader) Kiya Lish Joshua Langan

strategic plans and make effective links with the developments at the Grafton Centre site on the Worthing seafront.

The results will be announced on 9th May at a special Celebration Event.

Jonathan Peters (Team Leader) Majfuh Kalam Anna-Marie Hillard Brogan Kirkby-Bott

Christian Tomlinson

Students banking on advice from Barclays to get ahead in business Staff from Barclays Bank, Broadwater ran Personal Finance sessions with BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Business Studies students. There were 2 activities; a quiz and drawing up their own personal budgets. The students were educated on the importance of not using loan sharks, using debit and credit cards sensibly, ISAs and how to keep their personal details secure. The students asked a lot of questions relating to their own

personal

experiences.

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sessions were very well received by the students and much appreciated.

After the sessions, students were still

talking about some of the main points and were going to act upon the advice.

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Hopefully these sessions can be run again with other students.

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Promoting Health: learning into action Promoting Health – Health and Social

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learning into action. By Rosie Speer A2 Health and Social Care students have been busy preparing to go out to educate targeted groups about Healthy Living. The students have been working in small groups to produce colourful media and materials to reinforce their presentations to drive the health messages home.

Fleur Ozanne, Lauren Travers, Becky Webb and Natalie Holden are tackling the worrying issue of under-age drinking. They have found a group of ten fifteen year olds who are willing to learn about the dangers of alcohol and what the legal situation is for youngsters.

Amy Gander, Jasmine Elliot, Alice Bound and Sian Rance have introduced a programme at Worthing College Nursery designed to encourage their little ones to clean their teeth.

The students have produced a range of colouring pictures and star charts for the children to complete. There are also informative leaflets for the adults.

Caitlin O’Mahoney, Jasmine VincentSeal and Sophie Wheeldon are educating youngsters about the dangers of alcohol abuse, but they are working with Year 7 children. They have been asked by the Orchards Middle School to tailor their presentation to the Key Stage 3 curriculum.

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Kate Tucker, Nida Khan and Allysa Castro are educating college students about the importance of Breast Awareness. This is in response to the number of younger women who suffer from this disease. They have obtained resources from CoppaFeel!

Cancer Research UK and Breast Cancer Care and their talk will take place in the library after half term.

All participants in these campaigns will have their knowledge assessed before and after the presentations so that they can evaluate how effective they have been at changing attitudes and behaviour. Health Promotion is notoriously ineffective so these students have a huge challenge on their hands. See how they got on in the next issue of Celebrating Worthing College.

An exciting melange of song, dance and comedy was the order of the day when Worthing College BTEC Musical Theatre students presented a Variety Show on the evening of Monday 26th March in the Drama Studio. All the students did brilliantly and everyone agreed it was an evening of quality entertainment.

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Health Information Day:

advice, support and fun for all Worthing College has provided a Health and Wellbeing Centre for just over a year. Set up by the College nurse, Louise Trotter, it has been very successful in providing students with a supportive environment in which to learn. Students have been increasingly seeking support and advice from nurse Louise about a variety of health related issues.

College students need information and advice about health and they benefit from education, support and direction. Some students may experience significant health problems. Other students face different challenges as they attempt to balance their education with factors such as family, finance and housing.

Young people are increasingly coming into contact with wider social problems such as homelessness, drugs, disabilities and mental health, with colleges frequently the first source of support and guidance about concerns beyond education.

advice on many aspects of health from drugs and alcohol awareness to healthy eating and sexual health.

Service and other health agencies concerned with health promotion.

There was a Smoothie Challenge for students. This was a great success and students loved participating in the competition. It is a great way to interact with the students and to talk to them on a one to one basis about healthy eating. Building a good rapport with students has been fundamental to achieving interest in and awareness of the Health and Wellbeing Centre and the services it can provide to Worthing College students.

Worthing College has been promoting healthy living through various promotions in the student Centre.

These events have been tailored to provide information on the dangers of smoking, cancer awareness, healthy eating and sexual health awareness.

The latest promotional event was a Health Information day in the Student Centre. This involved a range of outside agencies coming in to promote their services and give

At Worthing College, we have considered ways in which we can collaborate with the National Health

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Nurse Louise says -

“We aim to improve the overall Health and Wellbeing of students at Worthing College and we are considering ways to develop this service further. Since working here I have seen how important it is for students to have accessible health advice as well as education and guidance on preventing ill health and leading healthier lives generally. The act of learning is far more successful when students are healthy.�

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ESOL students find safe haven to learn Some of our ESOL students have been sharing their experiences of life at the college in classes with ESOL teacher Tori Bond. ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages and our ESOL students students come from a variety of

countries including Afghanistan.

They all have different circumstances for being in England and this could be due to the fact that their own countries are at war and not a safe place to live. They have come to England to seek asylum and above

all get a decent education. Some of these students have never even had a proper education. Their lives and education here are completely different to their own countries.

Work below by Aziz and M.Rahimi

Student life in the UK

Being a student in the UK is different from my country. Here in the UK I have more freedom. I can go out and see my friends.

I can do whatever I want and tuition fees for education below university level is free. The government pay for you. In my country everything is all the other way around and you need to pay for yourself to study at school or college, and even university. In my country, Afghanistan, there is a lot of fighting and you can’t go to school to study because some people keep putting bombs in our school which explodes our school buildings. They are doing it because they don’t want people to be educated.

Some schools don’t have chairs to sit on. The students have to sit on the floor, in freezing cold weather. English people are very lucky because mostly they have everything they need.

I can now make friends and go out, go to the gym, swimming pool, sea front, sightseeing and museum. I can do these things every day and I am very happy here in the UK.

Studying in the UK is very interesting. You get lots of help and teachers will always help you when you have any questions. Some of the colleges take you on a camping trip where you get lots of experience, but in my country Afghanistan you don’t get much support and they never help you.

In the UK you get lots of opportunity and all the opportunities will help you. You get long vacations and student fares on the train. You also have a big library at every college in the UK. In my country they don’t have any libraries. Teachers just want money and most of the teachers just come to class and go back home and most of the students are uneducated. In my country students don’t respect each other, most of the time they fight. I’m really happy to study in the UK. It’s much easier and very interesting.

In the UK they provide good things for students. They also provide transport, money and they persuade students to come to college every

My school was damaged and there was no school go to so my dad decided to send me somewhere else to study. We had a lot of problems because my dad was working in politics. My dad had many enemies and he sent me to the UK to study. I am so glad to be here. Everything is free, there are more things to do and I can make new friends from different countries.

day. In the UK students have their own privacy and they have their own choice to choose what subjects they want to study. In the UK they have museums where students can go free and learn about history, but in my country they don’t have anything like museums that’s why students don’t know anything. In my country there aren’t any chairs or tables for students, so they study on the floor, but in

While I am here I realize there are young people still in Afghanistan, I am so sorry for them I wish they could have a good education like me in the UK.

the UK they have everything. It’s very comfortable to study and do homework.

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Aziz

Worthing College Gains Democracy Reward For the third year in a row Worthing College has gained a Bronze Democracy Award following the county wide elections for the West Sussex Youth Cabinet and the UK Youth Parliament. Two college students, Azariah Messingham and Hannah Webb, stood as candidates promising to represent young

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people across Worthing. After the final counting BOTH students were elected to the West Sussex Youth Cabinet.

The elections caused a lot of interest across the college, and Steve Williams, College Director who organised the elections within

college, said ‘It was great to see so many students getting involved in issues that affect them both locally and nationally. We hope that Azariah and Hannah will enjoy their time as members of the Youth Cabinet and continue to play an important role developing services to young people across the county.’

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Former students Street Dance looking forward to Spectacular glittering careers Proud father of David and Rachel Shackman, two former Worthing College students, thought we might be interested in how his son and daughter have progressed since leaving the college.

Last summer David achieved a high 2:1 degree in Banking, Finance and Management from Loughborouh University and was also presented with the Malcolm King Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Business School. He is now on the two year Corporate Markets Graduate Scheme with Lloyds Banking Group, specialising in Wholesale Markets, Treasury and Trading and Corporate Banking.

Rachel is now in her final year at Loughborough University. Having completed a very sucessful year’s

work placement at Xerox she has recently accepted a position with Barclays in a relationship role. She has just received the results of her January exams in which she gained an excellent 2:1 standard and is now working towards her final exams when she hopes to take forward her marks and earn a very good degree.

A Street Dance concert held at Worthing College wowed an enthusiastic audience. The show consisted of a series of highly original routines created by the students themselves plus a finale choreographed by dance teacher Sam LeBihan, featuring all the students together.

Both remember their time at Worthing College with fondness and have commented on the patience, understanding, help and encouragement that they received from their teachers. Mr Shackman goes on to thank the college and the staff and says: “Thank you for everything that was done for them. They have hugely benefitted from the time given to them and are both now looking forward to exciting and rewarding careers.”

Battle of the Bands hits the high notes

Worthing College students have been creating a bit of a stir by staging a Battle of the Bands in the Student Centre. Six different bands and singers have been entertaining their fellow students with performances every lunchtime.

Students then voted online to choose a winner. The participating acts were Abbie Edwards, Fagan & Fergs (Jack Fagan and Ryan Fegany), On the Verge with Aiden Gribble, Harvey Simpson, Eddie

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McCartney and Elliot Worsop - photo bottom left), Luke Knight, Imbium (with Joe Miles, Matt Charbonnau and Josh Klose - photo top left), Charlie & Lucy. The level of talent has been incredibly high with some spectacular performances being witnessed. The competition proved extremely popular with the students.

The winners were ‘On the Verge’ with 290 votes who were presented with a voucher for 5 hours recording time at the Ivy Arch Studio in Worthing.

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POLICE HELP STUDENTS WITH

Sports Development

THEIR ENQUIRIES FOR COLLEGE

Apprentice aiming for Premier League

Following the success of our initial Safety and Security Week, the Premises Team organised a second week in April full of help and advice around promoting your safety and security in and outside of College.

Michael Ryan, Sports Development apprentice, is a level 5 referee with the ambition to go on to referee in the Premier League. Michael currently referees in Sussex County League and Football League Youth Alliance, and also referees for Worthing College on a Wednesday afternoon.Michael has been invited to referee at a number of prestigious events this summer, the first being the Lisbon Cup in Portugal where teams from around the world will be taking part. Once he has returned from Portugal, Michael is off to Sweden to referee the Gothia Cup in Gothenburg.

SAFETY AND SECURITY WEEK

Events included advice about security of your cars and bikes from Traffic Police, road awareness information for young drivers from the Institute of Advanced Motoring and personal safety initiatives in conjunction with

our local Police Community Support Officers including phone and ipod marking and drug awareness.

The caretakers offered security marking, normally costing £14.95, FREE for cycles and Quest Adventure, a local Bike company offered information and promoted safer cycling in Worthing. Both weeks have been well received by students and staff, look out for our next one in the Autumn term.

Cricket? You’re having a laugh Student Adviser Andy Lawrenson has recently achieved a long-held ambition to publish a book. “Tales

of fifty years of largely unavailing struggle in the lower echelons of the game. Copies are available for

from Cow-Shot Corner” is a collection of humorous cricketing short stories based loosely on the experience

£7.99 in Room 34. £1 from each copy will be donated to the British Heart Foundation in memory of Dan Hoare.

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Michael has been chosen by the Sussex County FA to represent the County as one of only two referees at the National FA Young Referees Conference in Northampton in July.

This is a big honour for such a young referee, with all at Worthing College wishing him luck for both tournaments and looking forward to seeing him on the big stage.

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Academy of Art in Paris 33 Visual Arts and Media students, and 3 teachers, braved the freezing temperatures during the annual study tour to Paris in February.

In order to keep warm one evening we staged the mini Olympics in the courtyard outside the Pompidou Centre, before experiencing the dubious pleasures of Flunch restaurant.

Highlights included viewing a diverse and inspiring range of exhibitions. Particularly impressive was the Maison de Europeane Photographie, a contemporary photography gallery and the Musee d’Orsay with its enormous collection of Impressionist paintings and the wonderful and iconic clockface.

The Eiffel tower and Notre Dame provided unique photo opportunities and we even found time for a spot of shopping.

Choreographing success

at Worthing College This year the Dance course has been enriched by guest teacher Sam Roberts, from the Alston Company, who worked with the A2 dance students creating a stunning solo paying homage to Richard Alston.

This solo was performed as part of the practical exams alongside the group choreographic pieces.

Well done to all the students and their many dances for completing this stressful and difficult task. The AS course had the pleasure of working with Clare Coleman, lead teacher on the Foundation Degree

at the University of Brighton, who choreographed a playful duet. The duet and solo choreography was performed as part of their practical

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exams and the feedback from the external moderator was that the standard of work and performance was ‘exceptional’, so congratulations to all.

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ACHIEVE OXBRIDGE SUCCESS

Amy Dighe and Samantha Fairman have won places at Cambridge, while Josie Lamb is Oxford bound Six Worthing College students have been given conditional offers of places at Oxford or Cambridge in 2012 – a fantastic achievement!

Four have been offered places at Cambridge: Amy Dighe for Natural Sciences, Samantha Fairman Chemical Engineering, Giles Holbrook Geography and Florence Scordoulis History; and two at Oxford: Josephine Lamb for Medicine and Polly Rylands-Richey for Experimental Psychology.

Aspire Co-ordinator Antony Allchin said: “We are incredibly proud of these students, they have had to work really hard to get these offers.

Oxford and Cambridge are looking for the best, and they impose a number of supplementary challenges to students in addition to excellent A level grades, including setting extra exams and scrutinising samples of work. Perhaps most challenging

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for our students is the Oxbridge interview, and they have all had to go through at least two interviews where they have been confronted by academics who are world class experts in their subject - hopefully the practice interviews we have given them have helped in the preparation.

Oxford and Cambridge are looking for the most able and dedicated students, and the field for places is genuinely international. Going to Oxford or Cambridge can be very daunting, but we want more students to think seriously about applying, and we offer a lot of support through the Aspire Programme for potential applicants. I am very pleased that exWorthing students at Cambridge have set up a support group to welcome new arrivals each year - it shows that the Worthing College experience is important to our students, and that the community spirit engendered here lives on after they leave us.”

Worthing College student wins

Young Volunteer of the Year Robyn Wisdom has been crowned “Young Volunteer of the Year” by Volleyball England. Robyn was awarded this prestigious award through all her volunteering with Ashcombe Volley Ball Club.

She is willing to turn her hand to anything that needs doing at their tournaments, from selling food to line judging. Robyn helps out at Regional Competitions for the South East and last year she volunteered at the UK School Games at Sheffield. This year she is volunteering again at the UK School Games which are being held in the Olympic Stadium.

In addition to all the volunteering she does for Ashcombe, Robyn plays Volley ball and on Sunday 29 April was part of the U18 Ashcombe Volley ball Squad who won the U18 National Volleyball Championships.

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Huge success for Academy of Arts The talented young artists of Worthing College’s Academy of Arts showed off their talents in an exhibition at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

It was the first public display of work by the students since the Academy opened last September.

The Academy of Arts Co-ordinators; Jackie Davies and Jason Lee, worked with a team of students and the museum staff, to select the best Visual Arts and Media exhibits for the show. Our Visual Arts students; Connor Kirkby-Bott, Lisa MarieForrest, Molly Bunn, and Jessica Harrington, did a successful work experience placement with the Worthing Museum curators, learning valuable skills in how to arrange and hang a public art exhibition.

At the Private View evening, the show was officially opened with a speech from Worthing’s Deputy Mayor. It was a fantastic celebration in which parents, students, staff and members of the public complimented the hard work of the curatorial team and the high standard of Visual Arts and Media student work.

“What wonderful young artists and such a wide variety of styles.

As a member of the Worthing Branch of the Embroiders Guild, I was particularly interested in the Textiles, with embellishing, machine embroidery and felting amongst other techniques….a very enjoyable exhibition. Well done to all the students”. Pam Bennett “The display was very impressive.

The video added to the creativity and we are proud to call these students our own. Well done to all the staff and students - amazing”. Jenny Thompson, College Director

traditional paintings that are being shown in the ‘Your Paintings’ display, also at the museum.”

A wide range of techniques and themes were on display including paintings, textiles, prints, drawings, photography and film. The exhibition ran for ten days in March. Further photos of the show can be found on the Academy of Arts facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ ArtsAcademyWorthingCollege

“The exhibition reminds you of the diversity of art… Enjoyed the film show of Worthing seafront”.

Leena Paterson Hamish MacGillivray, exhibition curator at Worthing Museum in Chapel Road, said: “It’s great to show new work by students from Worthing College, especially as it boosts their confidence and we can compare their art work to some of the more

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OUTSTANDING NEWS FOR OUR NURSERY In March the Nursery had its annual Environmental Health inspection for which we received a score of 5, the highest possible outcome.

Kids at worthing Nursery also hosted several groups of Worthing College Psychology students who visted to speak to the staff and observe how the nursery worked in order to help with their studies. This was an experience that was clearly enjoyed by both students and children.

Kim, Amy and Raina celebrate their achievements in the nursery It’s been a very busy, and successful time for Kids at Worthing Nursery over the past few months with lots to celebrate.

Kim Gumpright and Raina Eldridge received the news that they have passed and received their Early Years Professional Status qualification equivalent to a qualified teacher.

The girls worked exceptionally hard to achieve this and their skills and knowledge have an incredible impact on the nursery and the outcomes for the children in our care.

Kim and Raina have implemented many changes including how we plan for the children and their environment, and they have also trained other staff within the nursery to help develop best practice. They both also help to train and develop staff in other nurseries in and around Worthing.

Amy Smith also received an award from Northbrook College for Learner of the year for excellent work during

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her apprenticeship. She is now a fully qualified Nursery Nurse. She is On Tuesday 14th February we had our OFTSED inspection. We got a brilliant result with the nursery being rated as outstanding in many areas and good overall. Areas of outstanding provision included: • The capacity of the provision to maintain continuous improvement.

• The effectiveness of leadership and management in embedding ambition and driving improvement.

• The effectiveness of the setting’s self-evaluation, including steps taken to promote improvement.

• The effectiveness of partnerships.

• The effectiveness of the setting’s engagement with parents and carers.

We also had a West Sussex quality assurance inspection which was also on 14th February the overall result for this was Constantly Embedded (outstanding).

The nursery children, staff and parents went on a sponsored Bluebell walk on Saturday 21st April. Children from as young as a few weeks up to 5 years and a few pet dogs enjoyed a 2 mile walk through the Bluebell woods in Angmering Park Estate. The children have so far raised over £300 for Chestnut Tree House and we are still collecting. It was a brilliant day and fun was had by all especially jumping in the very muddy knee high puddles!!!!

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Worthing College wins County Cup

Worthing College’s men’s football performance programme lifted the County Cup with a 3-0 win over Bexhill College in an entertaining final at Lancing.

After a tense start, Worthing’s passing style started to come to the fore and after Jon Watkins blazed over, Worthing soon took the lead. Dave O’Callaghan’s corner was met by Joe Warner, whose flicked header found Ryan Fergany who cooly slotted home. Worthing defended well for the rest of the half and almost scored when Toko Moyo’s strike was tipped over.

Worthing started the second half brightly and doubled their lead when Fergany and Moyo set up Watkins who was about to shoot when a Bexhill defender prodded the ball into the far corner.

With 20 minutes to go Worthing were reduced to 10 men when Dan Heward was sent off for deliberate handball after stopping a goal-bound shot with his hand. However keeper James Binfield produced an excellent save from the resulting spot-kick and Worthing went on to seal their victory with a third goal by Warner late on.

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Worthing coach Dave Hall said: “The shape of the team defensively was excellent. This allowed us to frustrate Bexhill and then catch them when we were in possession. Each player did their specific job superbly and it was great to see this team functioning so well, and this was especially apparent when we went down to 10 men.

I’m so pleased that they now have a piece of silverware to show for their attitude and efforts. I would also like to thank all those that came to watch as I’m sure at times they were the 12th man.”

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Opportunity Achievement Success Progression

Worthing College wins County Cup

Worthing College’s netball team lifted the County Cup with a nailbiting extra-time victory over Hurstpierpoint College at Burgess Hill. Worthing won 4-1 in extra-time after scoring a last-minute equaliser to force the additional period.

At the end of the first quarter, Worthing trailed 8-7 and they slipped four points behind in the second quarter. However they fought back in the second half and Emily Begley shot a last-minute equaliser.

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In extra-time, two halves of two minutes were played and Worthing led 2-1 at half time - the first time they had been ahead in the match - before sealing the win in the second period when Mele Jackson rebounded a Hurstpierpoint shot and the ball was played down court for Begley to net once again.

Worthing coach Tina Price said: “It was a brilliant fightback from the girls and it shows that a game is never lost until the final whistle goes.

The girls have been a pleasure to coach this season and deserved to gain this accolade.”

The squad’s successful season was capped when they won the West Sussex schools and colleges’ tournament the following week.

Despite having six regular players unavailable they remained unbeaten throughout the tournament. The squad also won all their matches to win the Sussex round of the National Schools competition and sit top of the BMW Brighton League Division Two.

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Worthing College wins County Cup

Worthing College won their third county trophy in the space of a week when their women’s football performance programme lifted the County Cup. Following on from the netball and men’s football first team’s successes, the women’s side won the County Cup for the fifth successive year, defeating Chichester 2-0.

Worthing took control from the start and had the majority of possession in the opening 15 minutes without creating any clear chances. But they opened the scoring on 20 minutes

when a long throw from Meg Cave was flicked on before Becky Simmonds headed it into the top corner.

Worthing keeper Nat Woolven then kept out a long-range effort as Worthing led 1-0 at half-time, and then doubled their lead early in the second half when Lucy Somes scored from a free kick. Chichester had three late attempts but Woolven twice palmed over well-struck free kicks and then smothered the ball when a Chichester forward got through.

Worthing coach Mike Bridges was

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delighted with the win and said: “Finals are usually nervy affairs and this one was no different.

We defended Chichester’s direct approach extremely well and when we passed the ball with tempo we created chances. Each girl gave it their all and they fully deserve the accolade of being the best team in the county for this season.”

It has also just been annonced that with one league game to play the 2nd team have been confirmed as BCS Performance League Champions.

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Brave students give blood

Over 70 students and staff gave blood at the latest blood donor session held at Worthing College this week. Two blood mobiles visited the college, and were overwhelmed by the response, as donors exceeded the target by more than 20%, and some donors had to be turned away. Some students were first time donors who had recently turned 17 and were apprehensive about the experience. New donor Catrina Murray who gave in the morning said, “I was really quite worried beforehand. It did hurt a little bit, but now I’ve made my first donation I will definitely give again”.

College staff were also involved – for Steve Williams who organised the session it was his 41st donation.

Setting a good example was Dom Stannard the outgoing president of the Student Union.

Left to Right – Dom Stannard, Steve Williams, Dexter Brainnard, Ben Parkington, Julia Flynn, Becca Wain,

USEFUL DATES

Emily Waters and Catrina Murray

May 10th June 4th - 8th June 11th June 21st July 2nd - 3rd

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Students awarded Science Olympiad certificates This year we had our biggest cohort of students attempting the Royal Society of Chemistry International Olympiad competition. 13 students entered and they did the Worthing College proud by winning 4 silver and 8 bronze certificates.

THANKS TO: Our catering staff for providing delicious Chinese food to celebrate Chinese New Year.

All those who made the Worthing High School Creative Arts Day on 8 March so successful.

Paul Wright for organising the highly successful KS4 Science Challenge Cup Competition (see page 5 for more details).

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

The Olympiad is an annual competition run by the Royal Society of Chemistry in order to select a team of four students to enter the International Olympiad. We entered the first round which is a two hour problem solving exam. This year they answered questions on sulphur, hair perming solutions, general knowledge, cholesterol lowering drugs and the nano-car, the world’s smallest car. Nationally, 3632 sixth form students entered of whom 7% were awarded gold, 27% silver and 32.5% bronze so we are very pleased with the results.

Academy of Sport Awards Night Half Term College Development Day (staff) Information Evening Introductory Days for new students

Everyone in the nursery who contributed so much to the recent Ofsted inspection outcome (see page 16 for more details).

Everyone in the nursery for achieving the highest possible five star Environmental Health inspection rating (see page 16).

Our fantastic students Sulugna Roy, Toby Benham and Craig Bichard for winning FE Sussex Awards (see front page story).

A BIG welcome to new staff:

Sarah Boyes, Visual Arts Technician.

John Churchett, Curriculum Assistant - Public Services. Danielle Coskin, Nursery Apprentice. Gillian Miles, Teacher of Sport. Nicola Neal, Teacher of Sport and Public Services.

Cara Tappenden, Nursery Apprentice.

We wish a fond farewell to: Martyn Lowery, Teacher of English.

Gurwyn Lowes, HR and Governance Assistant.

About ‘Celebrating Worthing College’ Celebrating Worthing College is produced by the Worthing College Marketing Team. If you have any comments about this publication email info@worthing.ac.uk or telephone Laine Greenland on 01903 243389 ext 350.

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