End of year Bulletin

Thank- you.
Your hard work has enabled us to come together to develop a consistent and planned way forward.
We have identified ways of working, priorities and key actions for the short, medium and long term.
In order provide a consistent service for you, our students and wider stakeholders.
We are committed to these shared values for the way we will work.
If we are not demonstrating the following values with a focus on students we want to be challenged.
(In no particular order)

Openness
Flexibility
Honesty
Integrity
Professionalism
Commitment
Being respectful
Accountability
Collegiate view
Supporting

Staff Development
In order to assist us all in creating our successful organisation there will be a rolling programme of
support and development.
This will include diarised dates and times (via Outlook) for the following aspects of everyday life at
College. Every learning opportunity will include a Good Practice Guide (GPG). Dates will be available
by September 1st.
Pro Monitor Updates

Pro Solution Updates

Attendance processes
updates

How do I know if a
student is high risk?

Self-evaluation :
everybodys business
IAG, what does that
mean
ILT Expert to excellent
in 4 easy steps
Safe guarding
New qualification .
what do I do

Data what data?

Maths top ups
Action Research
what is it all about
then?
BTEC assessment
rules
Efficiency ideas

Mindfulness
How do I improve my
customer service
skills?
Talking targets:
students

Attendance register
marks
Destinations, why its
important
Talking targets: staff

English top ups

ILT novice to expert

in 4 easy steps

Coaching
conversations

Beyond behaviour

BTEC innovation ideas

Relaxation workshop

C&G tracking and

assessment sharing
Management
development

Ideas Bank
Where can you contribute?
An opportunity to identify where your expertise can contribute towards moving the college forward.
See day 1 bulletin for more details..
MDP
A Management Development Programme delivered in bite size chunks.
Further information to follow if youre interested in signing up for this programme. It will be a
combination of online seminars and face to face sessions. Covering everything from SAP, to having a
challenging conversation and rewarding skills. A programme focussed on enabling people to shine.
Operations
Results day
Level 3 Results: August 13
Members of the Senior Team will be in College preparing our overall success rates and being
prepared to meet and greet students collecting their results.
Level 2 Results: August 20
A representative from the Senior Team will be present at each High School offering IAG.
There will also be a team at the Coutanchez helping to advise students and their families of their
options please contact Louise if you would be able to support this initiative.

Enrolment
Full time students: August 27
A letter will go out to prospective students identifying the time they need to arrive at LOC.
The process will involve enrolment onto ProSolution, booking for Diagnostics and Initial
Assessments, Results ratified and a transition meeting with the Learning Support Team.
Part time students and apprentices: September 1
This will follow the format as in previous years and take place between 5.30 8pm at LOC.
Summer Work :
Technical, Estates and IT support teams will be working hard over the summer break to develop and
implement a programme of maintenance and improvement.
T&L
Thank- you to all those who attended the meeting on OTL and Coaches on Tuesday. 32 colleagues
attended to hear more about how we are leading the way in ungraded observations and how our
amazing approach to supporting professionals through coaching and professional learning
communities has been positively received in the UK.
Thank you to all those who have said they are interested in being part of these trailblazing teams.
The T&L coach and OTL team development programme will commence in September.

NEWS:
Course Developments and Recruitment
There will be a recruitment round for potential students to some new part time provision over the
summer we will be recruiting to a new enterprise course in retail starting in the autumn. This
exciting development is a joint initiative with the Co-op and other retail organisations to enable
people to see the amazing potential in this industry.
The Certificate in Education will be recruiting potential students for the next cohort and there will
also be a range of additional part time courses.

A College Identity has been targeted as one of our areas for improvement and September 1st will be the
first opportunity to become engaged as part of the future college.
Watch this space!!
QIP the new Quality Improvement plan draft 1 has been written. It takes forward the areas of

Quality Improvement Plan

We have been working on this in the last two days and you will be pleased to know it clearly
identifies the areas we all need to prioritise at this point in the year.
The self-evaluation process will confirm this and identify further areas for improvement.
The link in Engage takes you to the draft QIP, this is a live document to guide us all.
Please contribute your thoughts and evaluations...
Calendar
The central calendar will be available on mycfe and the website for September 1