GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESIT

EXAMS: 4th & 7th JUNE 2019

The Foundation English department will be running x2 workshops during half term.

Tuesday 28th May 9.30 – 11.30 AND Thursday 30th May 9.30 – 11.30.

The sessions will focus on exam revision.

For more information, please speak to a member of staff in the Academy, room A129.

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESIT

EXAMS: 4th & 7th JUNE 2019

The Foundation English department will be running ‘drop-in’ workshops during the months of April & May. These will be held on a Tuesday & Thursday 12.45 – 1.15.

The sessions will focus on spelling, punctuation and grammar.

For more information, please speak to a member of staff in the Academy, room A128.

Selby College FE Term 3 End of Year learner survey

I am very pleased to invite you to facilitate the end of year T3 QDP Survey to be completed with your GST by all FE full time groups April to May 2019 – closing date 24 May 2019

Online Link: https://qdpservices.co.uk/OnlineQuestionnaire.aspx?sid=12968

Online log in: 

• Students will require their student ID as their personal login to access their questionnaire
• Selby students will have at least 2 surveys to complete depending on their programme of study – One across college survey and one course specific survey per subject
• Once accessed, students must complete and finish the whole of the survey as the system will not save part completion of a survey and will not allow learners to re-enter the survey later once log-in details have been used – they will get a message ‘survey full’ or similar
  

Thank you for supporting this learner voice quality initiative

Finance Cash Office Opening Times

The Finance Cash Office is open for students to make payments from 10am to 1.30pm each day.

Staff / Student Catering Token Sales

Luncheon tokens for use in the Refectory are on sale via the Student Services Team or Finance office

1 Luncheon token = £3.50

5 Luncheon tokens = £17

10 Luncheon Tokens £34

(10 Luncheon tokens include a free black token, which can be used against a bacon sandwich, small coffee or equivalent item to the value of £1.40)

PLEASE NOTE - TOKENS WILL ONLY BE EXCHANGED FOR THE FULL VALUE OF £3.50, NO CHANGE WILL BE GIVEN

 Selby College asks:

Are you confident that you are meeting your targets and will achieve your qualification?

• 627 - I am on target to achieve and have already had 1 or more progress reviews with my teacher/s or GST
• 319 I just need to do more to get my targets and have already had 1 or more progress reviews with my teacher/s or GST
• 261 I am not sure, I need some help/support to get me back on track to achieve
  

We Responded:
Of those who responded to this survey, the majority of you (627 students) are confident that you are meeting your targets and will achieve your qualification, with 319 students confirming they know what they have to do to achieve. However, some of you, (21%), identified you are less confident in your success and are advised to speak to your tutor or GST as you may be over anxious and worrying without just cause.

Progress reviews are undertaken throughout your learning journey to:
     • recognise the progress you have made to date on your course
     • confirm you are on target to succeed on your programme
     • recognise the additional support/effort required to ensure your success
     • set SMART targets to stretch and challenge you to achieve your potential

You will have been involved in progress reviews at various times during the year and these may not always have been formal 1 to 1 sessions with your tutor or GST.  Check out your target grades and progress data on eTrackr or Onefile, are you up to date?

Need some support? 
If you are anxious about your exams or assessments you can see your tutor or GST to talk about your concerns.
GSTs provide personal and academic support for every full-time learner at the college and work with you to ensure your time at college is fulfilling and successful.  GSTs have strong communication links with Tutors, parents/carers, other support departments and outside agencies.  GSTs give advice and guidance on progression routes, careers and employability skills.  GSTs work with students who wish to go onto Higher Education and help them with their UCAS applications, course and university choice, as well as supporting learners who wish to enter the realm of employment with interview skills and CV writing.
Your GST can also refer you to the College Counsellor if you need counselling support. 
Whatever your concerns, please make sure you talk to College staff, so that they can help and support you

Exams:
We all have to do them. Working towards exams can make us feel a lot of pressure. We might not have that much choice over whether or not we actually do exams, but there are definitely things we can do to help deal with the stress we're feeling. The college counselling service have provided a link to some useful tips on dealing with exam stress! http://www.studentminds.org.uk/exam-stress.html

Moving On: 
Your time at Selby College is a vital stepping stone and most of you will already have plans for your next steps, be it Further Education, Higher Education, apprenticeship, employment, or other activities such as voluntary work. There are a range of links and resources to support your progression on the College Moodle GST site: https://moodle2.selby.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=68. Students can also access the tips and advice via our own Twitter page for updates on @selbycolcareer

New Food Vender

We now have a brand new food vender which is located next to the vending machines in the Jubilee corridor. This vender contains sandwiches, wraps, muffins, cookies and flapjacks! The vender will be stocked throughout term time and also over the half term breaks ensuring both staff and students have access to food.

Sandwich £2

Wraps £2

Cookies £1

Flapjacks £1

Muffins £1

Student Admin Department

Student Services has a new name – the Student Admin Department – and a new home.  You can find us in J069 in Jubilee (the old Marketing office) but in the first instance, you should go to Kieron in Marketing or Reception.  If they can’t help you, they will contact us.

We have made some small changes for student enquiries; temporary student IDs can be picked up from Reception and forms e.g. sign out, holiday forms, parking permit applications can be picked up from the rotating stand near Reception.

We haven’t changed where you go with your questions or to collect meal tokens and bus vouchers.  All the support is still available from Reception and our old office at different times of the day.  If the office is closed or nobody is on the front desk in the office, just go to Reception who will be able to help you.

Printing Restrictions

Printing restrictions are now being enforced for all students unless you have paid the £20 annual fee or you are in one of the exempt categories e.g. receives a bursary, HE, Apprentice, paid for course or part time you will not be able to print.

If you are not eligible to print, then you won’t see any printers available to print to. You will need to go and pay the fee via WisePay or Finance or come and see the IT Technicians if you think you should be exempt and have been missed off.

Don’t forget print credits still apply! Credits are just a mechanism to prevent rogue and wasteful printing e.g. stopping students sending print jobs of 50 pages. If you run out of credits you can go to the LRC or Network Services and get additional credits. Additional credits are free they do not need to paid for. 

Students automatically get an additional 200 new credits every Sunday.
B/W pages cost 5 credits each.
Colour pages cost 50 credits each.

LRC Evening Opening Times Are Changing from 7 November…..

In response to HE student feedback, the LRC will be open on alternate Wednesdays until 20:00 after half-term. This will commence from November 7.

 From November 14, it will close at 18:30 on alternate Wednesdays…

 Please be aware LRC will close at 19:00 each Thursday during term, from now on, in order to accommodate this.

Still not bought ALL your recommended textbooks???

Textbook orders can still be placed until the start of half term. After this, prices will change as discounts are reduced, so books will be removed from Wisepay.

You can still contact LRC staff to see if there are copies left on-site that you can purchase. First come, first served…!

If you’ve applied for bursary funding but haven’t yet got books, please complete and hand-back the relevant order form, available from the LRC service counter.

Gaming Club 

A new Gaming Club for students will start on Friday 5th October (12.30-1.30pm) in A215. All welcome. 

College Car Park Users

This year there are very high numbers of students using the college car parks, both in cars and on mopeds/motorbikes.  Unfortunately, some of these students are not following the rules and are driving dangerously.  Some are speeding and a few are even driving into college through the exit gate which could case a serious head-on collision.  A reminder of the rules is below.  Apart from the possibility of causing injury to yourself and others, the consequence of not following the rules is that you will not be allowed to bring your vehicle onto the college site.

• You must hold a current UK driving licence, road tax, MOT (where required) and insurance for the vehicle you are submitting

• Permits must be clearly displayed

• Changes of vehicle must be notified and re-registered (No additional charge).

• Vehicles are parked at the owners risk

• There is a MAXIMUM speed limit of 10MPH within the College grounds.

• You MUST not obstruct fire exits.

• You MUST not park outside designated bays.

• You MUST not park on hatched areas.

• You MUST not park on footpaths or walkways.

• You MUST not park on grass verges.

• Parking of overnight vehicles must obtain prior permission from Estates

• You MUST not drive in a manner that gives cause for concern for the safety of others.

• There are no areas reserved for staff or students. Parking is on a first to arrive basis. 

• Bicycles, motorbikes and scooters should be parked in the designated areas only. 

• College temporary disabled parking permits are available (from health and safety advisor) for staff and or students with temporary injuries or medical conditions if required.

• The College reserves the right to withdraw authorisation to use parking facilities. 

Withdrawal of authorisation

Parking within College grounds is at the discretion of the College. Authorisation to park within the college car parks will be withdrawn for those drivers who consistently flout rules, drive in a manner that gives cause for concern regarding the safety of pedestrians, damage to other vehicles or fails to display or produce authorisation permit as required.

All FE students are invited to take part in this survey  which forms part of the national evaluation of The National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP). NCOP aims to increase the number of young people in higher education by 2020. The survey will take around 10 minutes to complete. It asks how much you know about higher education and what you might like to do in the future.

Please click the link to access the survey

https://yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BurnDlF61AOpUN

Need textbooks for your second year of A Levels? 

Please collect an order form from the LRC, or use Wisepay. Recommended textbooks are listed on Wisepay, so if you know what you need, you can just go online to pay.

First year textbook forms are still available from the LRC, if anyone needs one.

Vocational textbook forms are being distributed by your lecturer.

For all textbook orders, please use one of the above order forms if you’re applying for bursary, or just prefer not to pay online. Other forms of payment should be made to the Finance office on the top floor of Jubilee. We’ll notify your college email address when your books are ready to collect. 

Please contact the LRC if you have any queries about the college textbook ordering process. Many thanks.

Don't Get Knocked Down - Get Off The Road!

There have been several near miss incidents involving students standing or loitering on the road as cars and other vehicles enter and exit the campus. To prevent an accident, make sure you stand on the pavement not the road!  Students are also crossing the road without looking, just stepping out in front of cars then being intimidating to the driver when they have to stop for them.

If you see a friend doing this, please point it out to them as rolling across someone's bonnet is no fun and funeral costs can be expensive!

Seriously, be warned, staff have been advised to challenge anyone doing this and persistent offenders will face disciplinary action.

Be courteous - Make way for people with prams or walking with youngsters

The college site includes a Nursery, with parents coming on and off site pushing youngsters in prams or walking with them. Remember you were little once, behave how you would want someone to behave if it was your mum or dad taking you to Nursery. Please be courteous and make room for anyone with a youngster so they can proceed along the path. There is no need to step on the road to do this though as there should be plenty of room to pass!

Student Lanyard Colours 2018/19:

2018-2019 Bursary Forms available now

Click above on 'Student Info' then Student Services to access information and application forms for 2018-2019.  Don't forget, if you are a returning student, you have to re-apply for help each year.

Click here to find out how you can download and install Moodle Mobile on your device.

Have you checked your college email today (qnumber@selby.ac.uk)?

This is the main means of communication from Tutors, GST's and Student Services. You must check this on a daily basis to ensure you are not missing any vital course related information. Access to your college account is available both in and outside of college via this link https://mail.selby.ac.uk where you can log in with your qnumber and usual password.

If you prefer to link your college email to your personal email this can be easily done using this YouTube Video or paper based guide.

WisePay

Selby College subscribes to a secure online payment system called WisePay where payments can be made conveniently using most major credit or debit cards. The WisePay service operates in hundreds of colleges, schools and academies across the UK and offers a convenient means of payment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

An email will be issued from WisePay at the beginning of the academic year providing a username and password for your WisePay account. You can access WisePay here, by logging onto Moodle or through the College Website (selby.ac.uk) and clicking onto the WisePay icon.

If you have any queries regarding WisePay please contact wisepay@selby.ac.uk

Students charging phones/laptops etc

Please note, students are NOT allowed to plug anything electrical in to power sockets in college.  This includes charging phones, laptops etc.  All portable electrical equipment in college must pass a test before it can be plugged in; this is to ensure that the equipment is safe to use.  Any equipment found plugged in will be removed and taken to Student Services.

USB Memory Sticks - Hints and Tips

Don't let your memory stick be the only copy of your work.

•   USB sticks do break and fail, plus you can lose them!
•   Ideally keep a copy of your work in your College Home area (H: drive), we back it up each night.
•   Use your memory stick as a means to fetch your college work to and from home.

Remember to name your memory stick, if you lose it in college we can then identify the owner

• Plug in the memory stick
• Open File Manager
• Click on the memory stick (Removable Disk) then right click and select Rename
• Type in your own name and press enter

Help the College keep the Campus safe for everyone

We would like to remind all students that they must wear their lanyards at all times whilst on the college site. In certain practical sessions there are exemptions, but you must be wearing your lanyard once you leave that session. There will be ongoing regular lanyard checks indoors and outside, so please make sure you and your friends are wearing them.

Get Fit at the Selby College Gym!

The gym (first floor Jubilee) is open to staff and students on Wednesday afternoons, 1pm - 4pm.  Just go along and see the staff for your induction. 

Student Jobs Board

There is a Student Jobs Board located outside J034.  It is updated every Monday with full and part time vacancies.  There are also job files available in the GST office, one with Apprenticeship vacancies and one with other vacancies. 

• Find out about the latest job vacancies
• Search for jobs and apprenticeships
• Get help to apply

Just drop in the Work Placement office and talk to Rebecca James.

Do You Need Some Financial Help?

Selby College has bursary funds available to help students with the cost of travel, kit, uniforms, meals at college and equipment.  Further information and application forms are on the Student Services page (click on Student Info then Student Services at the top of this page).  OR, you can talk to Student Services or your GST to get help with your application.

Travel for Half Price on Arriva Buses - Application Forms Available in Student Services