GCSE English Language and GCSE Maths Exams

GCSE English Language

• Tuesday 5th June and
• Friday 8th June

GCSE Maths

• Thursday 24th May and
• Thursday 7th June and
• Tuesday 12th June

9.15am in the Sports Hall unless you have been notified otherwise.

The English Department have limited tickets remaining for the live performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream on Tuesday 3rd July (11am) at Clifford's Tower in York, where there will be a pop-up Shakespearean Theatre for the summer!

To buy tickets, contact English Lecturer Wendy Nield on nieldw@selby.ac.uk or head to the first floor of the Academy Building - A1.06. This great deal is open to all our students (and parents too if they want to join them!).
Find out more here: http://www.shakespearesrosetheatre.com/
Please note there is a deadline of Friday 15th June for all payments.

First Year A Level Exams – w/c 14th May 2018

If you have not received your exam times yet, please contact your GST urgently.

All exams will take place in the Sports Hall apart from

• French 1 – Language Lab
• Art - Art block
• Computing 2 – IT room

Ensure you are at the correct location 15 minutes before the exam start time  (9.15am or 1.15pm)

Seating plan will be on the wall outside the Sports Hall

For more information please contact the LRC

 Stay Safe In College: 

How has your awareness and understanding of Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding, Prevent, and British Values been developed at College?
This might include anti-bullying, being safe, IT safety, who to contact, child line, and more …  

We Responded: The number of responses to this survey was amazing, so thank you for your comments. Your views varied greatly with just a few stating their understanding and awareness had not really developed very much whilst at College, with others clearly recognising the shift in how E&D and BV is a real part of everyday life in the UK.
You confirmed the College promotion of E&D and BV via activities, posters, tutorials, and visits to name just a few

Equality and Diversity: The College believes that all forms of prejudice and discrimination are unacceptable and seeks to ensure that no member of the College  or wider community receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, marital status, race, colour, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, transgender, sexual orientation, or any other type of discrimination and the College’s Equality and Diversity Policy will embody the issues specific to discrimination. It’s about far more than where you were born, your gender or your religious beliefs. Our aim is to create an environment in which people treat each other with mutual respect.

Your tutors will embed Equality and Diversity within your lessons.  You will be aware that staff will use real life examples that include males and females often in roles that challenge gender stereotypes; or use examples of different faiths or customs to look at how that might impact upon a service.  The embedding of democracy and British values will be throughout your course and College. You choose who will represent you on the Students Union; you take it in turns when discussing in class.  You are informed about the rules covering College behaviour expectations and are treated according to the rules if you don’t conform to these. All students are given a voice and asked to participate in surveys and student feedback and all students have tutorials with their GSTs to look in depth at all these things and more.

Each month we publish an Equality and Diversity (E&D) calendar which promotes and celebrates E&D events and activities locally, nationally and internationally. Some events and activities may be mapped in to your course. The calendar is available on the College Moodle site at: http://moodle2.selby.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=647. The monthly E&D calendars are posted for you to consider as part of your curriculum studies or PDP tutorial sessions with the GSTs. Hard copies of the E&D calendar are displayed on notice boards around College. The calendar also maps in to cross College events happening around the campus

Selby College has an E&D working group which is attended by staff, students union and community representatives where we discuss activities and events to further promote E&D and British Values to benefit our College Community.

British Values: British Values (BV) are defined as "democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs". We prepare our students for life in modern Britain by developing an understanding of British Values, our students will encounter these principles at College and throughout their everyday lives. British Values are promoted at Selby College and embedded in teaching and learning at all levels, including via pastoral tutorials, and they are reinforced through a variety of different College media including our website, through posters and other published materials.

British Values & Challenging Radicalisation:
Selby College uses the following accepted Governmental definition of extremism which is:
‘Vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs; and/or calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas’. There is no place for extremist views of any kind in our College, whether from internal sources – learners, staff or governors, or external sources - college community, external agencies or individuals. Our learners see our College as a safe place where they can explore controversial issues safely and where our staff encourage and facilitate this – we have a duty to ensure this happens.

Further Equality and Diversity information and guidance can be accessed in your student handbook and on our Moodle site: http://moodle2.selby.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=647. Any prejudice, discrimination or extremist views, including derogatory language, displayed by learners or staff will always be challenged and where appropriate dealt with in line with our Student Disciplinary Policy for learners and the Disciplinary Policy for staff.

FE Student Survey: Term 3: May 2018

Learner Voice: Learner Impact (feedback from learners) is a key part of Selby College’s mission to ensure its quality of provision remains outstanding and responsive to user needs.  Learner feedback forms an important part of the College’s ‘Excellence Strategy’ with the aim to identify issues which need to be addressed or improved as well as to identify good practice to be shared for the benefit of all learners. This year the survey will be undertaken with FE Full Time students, Part Time students, and our Football Partners.
 
Guidance:
• Completion of the FE survey will be facilitated by your course teacher or GST
• You will not be able to access this survey using your student id more than once
• You must complete the survey questionnaire once you log in as it cannot be saved and completed later
• Questions are rated 1 (agree strongly) to 4 (disagree strongly), with option 5 NA (meaning Not Applicable)
• Full Time Students will be directed to access the online surveys via the link: https://qdpservices.co.uk/OnlineQuestionnaire.aspx?sid=10166
• Some Part Time learners will be invited to complete a paper survey, though the survey may be accessed on line if you prefer.

See your tutor or GST for further guidance and support

Your views matter!

The Term 3 student survey is now live and students should complete the survey before the end of May 2018

After 26 years at the helm of Selby College, Principal & Chief Executive Allan Stewart OBE has announced his plans to retire at the end of the academic year, after more than 40 years in education.

http://selby.ac.uk/news-events/college-news/news-from-2017-2018/selby-college-principal-announces-retirement/

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

16-19 Bursary Fund Important Updates

Breakfast Vouchers - anyone already getting meal vouchers for lunches can also have breakfast vouchers.  The vouchers are valued at £1.40 and can be used in the Refectory and the Coffee Shop before 11am.  Collect your vouchers from Student Services.

Household Income Increased - the upper limit for 16-19 Bursary Fund has been increased to £27,500 to allow support to be offered to more students.  If you have already applied for support but your household income was too high, it will be reviewed and Student Services will contact you.  If you haven't applied but think that you might now be eligible, please talk to Student Services as soon as you can.

16-19 Bursary Fund can help you with the costs of attending college, e.g. transport, meals, equipment, books, visits, UCAS fees, Work Placement travel costs etc.  All full time students can apply to the fund.

Travelling to Barlby on Arriva Buses

Students who live in Barlby can reduce their journey time going home at the end of the college day by getting on the first bus that is going to the bus station instead of waiting for friends and getting a later bus.  The bus times are:

42 to Wistow - 16.40 outside college

402 to Leeds - 16.40 outside college

476 to Pontefract - 16.44 outside college

All three buses arrive at the bus station in time to catch the 415 Max to Barlby

New in the Refectory

Behaviour Outside of College

Selby College expects the highest standards of behaviour from students, both inside and outside college.  We expect students to be courteous, considerate and to show respect to each other and neighbouring residents.  It can be very upsetting and intimidating for the neighbouring residents to be confronted with poor behaviour by groups of students e.g. throwing bottles and other litter towards them, bad language etc., particularly if they are elderly.

Selby College will not tolerate bad behaviour, as stated in the Student Code of Conduct (page 12 in the student handbook).  Bad behaviour could be deemed gross misconduct, which could lead to temporary suspension or permanent exclusion.

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

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!

Printing Restrictions

Printing restrictions will now be enforced for all students when terms starts again next week, i.e. unless you have paid the £20 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.

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 5 to 10 minutes to complete. It asks how much you know about higher education and what you would like to do in future.

Please click on the link below to access the survey:

http://survey.euro.confirmit.com/wix/p1859401378.aspx?c=7

Student Lanyard Colours 2017/18:

2017-2018 BURSARY FORMS AVAILABLE NOW

Click above on 'Student Info' then Student Services to access information and application forms for 2017-2018.  Don't forget, if you are a returning student, you have to re-apply for help each year.

Help the College keep the Campus Safe for Everyone

In light of the Manchester bombing and heightened security, 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.

Check Out The News On Moodle

Moodle is one of the ways that Selby College uses to communicate with students.  On this front page you will find news items, notices, events and messages. Don't forget to check on a regular basis so that you know what's happening in college.

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.

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

Backup your USB memory stick

Please make sure you have a copy of your assignments and college work.
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.

Please put your rubbish in the bins provided around the college site. DO NOT throw it on the floor or into neighbouring properties.

Student Union & Selby Council create New Youth Wellbeing Fund

Selby District Council is teaming up with Selby College and Students' Union to create a new Youth Wellbeing Fund.

The Fund will offer small grants for local young people between the ages of 16 and 24 from within the Selby district to help them overcome challenges affecting their education and impacting on their mental wellbeing.

Cllr Richard Musgrave, Executive member and lead councillor with responsibility for housing, leisure, health and culture, explained, "This new Fund to improve the mental health of young people in our community has grown from the work we carried out last year focussing on mental health issues.  At the workshops last year mental health provision and support for young people was raised as an issue again and again. Setting up this Fund is the direct result of those workshops and I'm proud to be able to say that we're supporting something that will support young people in our district facing these issues.”

Students can be referred to the Fund from within the education system, for example by their tutors. Young students will also be invited to become trustees of the Fund for a year - something that provides vital additional experience and skills.

Allan Stewart OBE, Principal and Chief Executive of Selby College commented, "We're ambitious about what we can achieve with the Wellbeing Fund. We are aiming to raise £1,000 to kick-start this project. In the longer term discussions are already taking place about a possible live music fundraising event which will help students gain valuable experience of event planning as well as fundraising.

The Fund will offer small grants of up to £100 to help students who need support to overcome challenges affecting their education - this could be buying equipment so a student can join a local sports club or to access a counselling service.

Allan added, "The Fund will help students stay in education and realise their individual potential. A secondary role for it will be to raise awareness of mental health issues for young people.”

A Just Giving page has been set up for the Wellbeing Fund: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/youthwellbeingfund

Name Your Memory Stick

If you lose your memory stick but it is found in college, how can it be returned if there is nothing to identify the owner?  If you name your memory stick it can easily be returned, saving you the problem of losing all your work.

• 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

Easy Peasy !!

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.

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.