Bristol Post-16 Directory. Courses starting Sept 2017

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1 Bristo Post-16 Directory Courses starting Sept 2017

2 Contents Wecome to the Bristo Post-16 Directory You wi soon be making important decisions about your next steps after the end of Year 11. There are many different post-16 options to choose from. Bristo is a great city to ive, study and work in. You have a wide range of opportunities and pathways avaiabe to you. We are ambitious for you and we want to make sure that you make the most of these opportunities. This directory brings detais of the schoos, coeges and training providers in the Bristo Loca Authority area together into one pace. This is a fast moving sector and so other opportunities are ikey to appear during the year. We hope the directory wi provide you with the information you need to choose the best way forward with confidence and show you where to go for more advice and support. I wish you every success with your studies this year and in making your choices for the future. Pau Jacobs Service Director: Education and Skis Bristo City Counci 2

3 Contents Staying in education and training after Year 11 6 Getting support if you have specia educationa needs or a disabiity 9 Genera Further Education Coeges and Sixth Form Coeges City of Bristo Coege 10 St Brendan s Sixth Form Coege 11 Schoo Sixth Forms Ashton Park Schoo 12 Bristo Cathedra Choir Schoo 13 Bristo Free Schoo 14 Cabot Learning Federation Post Coston s Girs Schoo 16 Merchants Academy 17 North Bristo Post-16 Centre 18 St Bede s Cathoic Coege 20 St Mary Redciffe and Tempe Schoo 21 Other Coeges in the oca area Bath Coege 22 Bristo Technoogy and Engineering Academy 23 South Goucestershire and Stroud Coege 24 Weston Coege 25 Work Based Training Providers 3AAA Bristo 26 Access to Music 27 Bristo City Counci 28 British Engineering Manufacturers Association (BEMA Limited) 28 CITB 29 Coachmakers (2nd Chance Group) 30 Creative Youth Network 31 dbs Music 32 Didac Limited 34 Eement Skis Training 35 First 4 Skis 36 HIT Training Limited and Connect 2 Care 37 Hartciffe and Withywood Ventures (Youth provision is caed a2a) 38 Interserve Learning and Empoyment 39 Learndirect 40 Lifetime Training 41 LPW 42 MPCT 43 N-Gaged Training and Recruitment Limited 44 3

4 North Bristo NHS Trust 45 On Site Bristo 46 Refections Training Academy 47 S&B Automotive Academy 48 South West Apprenticeship Company 49 T2 Apprenticeship Academy 50 Tomorrow s Peope 51 The Park Community Centre Ltd 52 The Prince s Trust 53 Other Training Providers 54 Course Avaiabiity A-eves & GCSEs 56 Speciaist and Vocationa Quaifications 59 4

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6 Staying in education and training after Year 11 Do I have to stay on at schoo? A young peope are required to stay in education or training unti their 18th birthday. This is so that every young person gains the right knowedge and skis to move on to a successfu career. What are my options? You can choose from fu-time education at schoo or coege, an Apprenticeship, a Traineeship, fu-time work or vounteering (which is defined as 20 hours or more a week) combined with part-time education or training. Getting support If you are sti at schoo, you shoud meet with your careers advisor who wi provide you with independent advice and guidance about a the post-16 options in your area. You shoud aso speak to your tutors and other staff in schoo who know you we. They wi advise you about the options that fit with your interests and abiities. You can aso contact: an impartia advisor at the Nationa Careers Service on or web-chat onine at nationacareersservice.direct.gov.uk Or ook on: Careerpiot is a great source of oca information and advice at careerpiot.org.uk shoud aso speak to your schoo s specia educationa needs co-ordinator who wi advise you about your next step. Before you make a decision about your next step here are some questions to ask yoursef: What am I good at? How we do I expect to do in Year 11? What are my interests? What skis do I have? What do I ike doing? When considering a particuar quaification or programme to foow next year, ask yoursef: What is it? What is the quaification (eg A Leve, GCSE, BTEC)? Is it at the right eve for me? What is the subject? Wi it hep me do the things I want to do in the future? What is the progression from this quaification (eg is there something simiar avaiabe at the next eve)? Is it something that I enjoy and I m good at? Am I prepared to put in the hard work to get a good Grade? What wi the subject actuay cover? Potr offers information on different empoyment sectors at potr.co.uk If you have specia educationa needs or receive additiona support at schoo then you 6

7 How wi I earn? Wi there be ots of practica sessions, hands-on work, essays? Wi my earning be assessed through exams, portfoio or on the job? Where wi I earn? In a cassroom, in a ab, in the workpace? At a schoo sixth form, at a sixth form coege, at a further education coege, with a work-based training provider? Why shoud I study for this quaification? Does it fit with my other choices and compement them? Wi this course hep me to deveop skis for the future? Am I eigibe? Do I need particuar quaifications to be aowed to study at a particuar institution? Am I ikey to achieve the right Grades to get onto the course? Apprenticeships and Traineeships With an apprenticeship you can enter empoyment and start buiding a career from the age of 16. As an apprentice you wi work for an empoyer, earning a wage and deveoping job specific skis. Most of the training is deivered in the workpace and you wi aso be supported by a speciaist earning provider to study towards a nationay recognised quaification. This coud be with a training provider or a coege. Find out more at apprenticeships.gov.uk or visit apprenticeshiphubwest.co.uk for impartia and independent advice on this and much more, incuding our ive apprenticeship vacancies map. A Traineeship is an education and training programme with work experience. It provides the essentia work preparation training, Engish, maths and a work experience pacement needed to move on to secure an apprenticeship or empoyment. Education and Training: The pathway you choose wi be based on the foowing: What GCSE Grades you achieve How you ike to earn What you want to do in the future (remember you are ikey to change jobs many times in your working ife). Remember that if you do not get a Grade C in maths and/or Engish GCSE in the summer then you wi need to continue studying unti you get the equivaent of a Grade C in these subjects. This option wi be avaiabe to you at your schoo, coege or training provider so pease ask for information. Remember that GCSEs are changing and a new grading structure using numbers is being introduced. 7

8 Quaification Leves Entry Leve (for young peope with no quaifications) For exampe: Study programme Leve 1 (for young peope with entry eve quaifications) For exampe: Study programme Traineeship Leve 2 (for young peope with 3 5 GCSEs mosty at D E Grade) For exampe: GCSEs, BTEC First Dipoma/Certificate/Award OCR Nationa Intermediate Leve Apprenticeship Leve 3 (for young peope with 5 or more GCSEs at Grade A* to C, incuding Engish and maths) For exampe: GCE AS and A eves IB/Pre-U/AQA Bacc BTEC Nationa Advanced Leve Apprenticeship The foowing pages show you what is avaiabe in the Bristo Loca Authority area. Remember that there are many other schoos, coeges and training providers within easyreach of the city shoud you wish to trave further away. We hope you find this directory usefu. 8

9 Getting support if you have specia educationa needs or a disabiity AIM for the Stars can hep you fnd out: How physicay accessibe the buiding is (Accessibe Paces). How the setting makes sure young peope with specia educationa needs or a disabiity are incuded.(incusive Practice). How young peope hep to make decisions about the way the setting deveops (Meaningfu Participation). You can find out the AIM for the Stars information for each coege by going to findabiitybristo.org.uk and searching for either the name of the coege or by cicking on the age range 14 to 25 years/preparing for Aduthood. There are ots of things that you can do after you eave schoo if you have specia educationa needs or a disabiity. Findabiity is a website fu of information for young peope with specia educationa needs or a disabiity: findabiitybristo.org.uk On Findabiity you can find out more about what you can do and what support. Post 16 education support If you have a disabiity or a specia educationa need you might ike to check what extras different coeges can offer you. On Findabiity you can see what different educationa settings can offer you through our AIM for the Stars framework. Remember, you can aways tak to your schoo s specia educationa needs coordinator about your next steps. 9

10 Further Education Coeges and Sixth Form Coeges City of Bristo Coege Senior Leader for Post-16 Juian Newberry Emai Website cityofbristo.ac.uk Phone Our comprehensive curricuum offer means that our students are abe to deveop the skis, knowedge and quaifications they need to get a job, start a career, progress to university or improve their independence. We offer a wide range of vocationa courses for young peope who want to deveop practica skis. For those who want to work and gain quaifications at the same time, we have the argest apprenticeship offer in Bristo with strong inks with the city s major empoyers, incuding Airbus and DAF. For those who are ooking for a more academic route, we offer a wide range of A Leves and aso a variety of our own higher education courses provided in partnership with eading universities. Our comprehensive curricuum offer means that our students are abe to deveop skis, knowedge and quaifications they need to get a job, start a career, progress to university or improve their independence. Our campuses are situated in convenient ocations throughout the city, with great transport inks. We offer free bus passes to eigibe students too, supporting them in accessing our coege where they can earn in an adut environment deveoping independence, confidence and skis for their future careers and ambitions. Genera entry requirements Vocationa eve 1 Range of quaifications which shoud incude at east 3 GCSEs at Grade E or above, incuding Engish and maths (or equivaent) or successfu competion of an Entry 3 vocationa quaification. Vocationa eve 2 A appicants wi need a minimum of 4 GCSEs at Grade D incuding maths and/or Engish, a Foundation Dipoma, NVQ Leve 1 or satisfactory competion of a earning programme at Leve 1 with a minimum of 37 credits. Vocationa eve 3 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above which must incude Engish and/or maths or equivaent (Leve 2 Functiona Skis), a Higher Dipoma (which is equivaent to 7 GCSEs at Grade A*-C), NVQ Leve 2 or Leve 2 Dipoma at merit Grade with ideay GCSE Engish and/or maths at minimum Grade C or equivaent (Leve 2 Functiona Skis). A LEVELS: 6 GCSEs at Grade C or above which must incude Engish and/or maths. Some subjects have additiona requirements pease see our website for further information. Open events Tuesday 4 October pm 7.30pm, Coege Green Centre Wednesday 19 October pm 7.30pm Ashey Down Centre Thursday 3 November pm 7.30pm AEC Parkway Saturday 26 November am 1pm Coege Green Centre Thursday 8 December pm 7.30pm South Bristo Skis Academy For a 2016/17 open events, visit cityofbristo.ac.uk 10

11 St Brendan s Sixth Form Coege Senior Leader for Post-16 Madeine Woofenden Emai mwn@stbrn.ac.uk Website stbrn.ac.uk Phone St Brendan s Sixth Form Coege is the ony speciaist eve 3 provider in the Bristo-Bath area. Home to around 1750 students, the Coege provides a diverse range of over 70 A-eves and eve 3 vocationa quaifications pus Leve 2 options to post-16 students. Students are encouraged to design bespoke courses to suit individua aims, with any combination of subjects being possibe for each student. As an educationa institution for year ods, teachers are experts in their fieds and the one-site campus is designed for young aduts to enjoy. Inspired by University-stye earning, post- 16 students can find a they need and more on the one Brisington campus. From state of the art science abs and inspirationa art spaces, to County-standard sports faciities and vibrant socia spaces; St Brendan s aims to ensure a students enjoy an enriched post-16 education. Genera entry requirements 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above, incuding GCSE Engish Language. Open events Saturday 8 October am 2.30pm Thursday 20 October pm 8pm Wednesday 16 November pm 8pm Wednesday 8 February pm 8pm Saturday 10 June am 3pm For further information visit stbrn.ac.uk Exceent careers advice and guidance is a particuar strength at the coege. 11

12 Schoo Sixth Forms Ashton Park Schoo Senior Leaders for Post-16 Steve Moseey Emai Website ashtonpark.net/sixth-form Phone Ashton Park 6th form is situated in a picturesque setting on the edge of the Aston Court Estate. Ashton Park 6th form is run using the same cooperative principes that the main schoo is we known for. Our provision is fuy incusive and we provide opportunities for the fu range of abiities. We vaue student voice and students pay a significant roe in the day to day running of the 6th form. September 2016 saw a new suite of study programmes being made avaiabe for students to foow. Ashton Park Is committed to providing individuaised support for a students on both academic and vocationa study programmes. Exceent UCAS support systems ensure our students make successfu appications to their chosen universities. Equay, the 6th form s empoyabiity programme is successfu in heping students gain access to empoyment and high eve apprenticeships. Genera entry requirements Each appication wi be considered on an individua basis however the key entry requirements are: A eve Study Programmes require students to possess 5 A*-C at GCSE incuding Engish and Maths. For a number of subjects there is the additiona requirement of at east a GCSE B Grade in that subject. Detais are avaiabe in the 6th form prospectus. Leve 3 Professiona vocationa programmes require student to be in possession of 5+A*-C at GCSE with at east D Grades in Engish and Maths. Leve 2 professiona vocationa quaifications require student to possess 5 A*-G at GCSE eve incuding Grades in Engish and Maths. Open evening Thursday 10 November pm 8pm Ashton Park Is committed to providing individuaised support for a students on both academic and vocationa study programmes. Exceent UCAS support systems ensure our students make successfu appications to their chosen universities. Equay, the 6th form s empoyabiity programme is successfu in heping students gain access to empoyment and high eve apprenticeships. 12

13 Bristo Cathedra Choir Schoo Senior Leader for Post-16 Stephen Fuer Emai Website bccs.bristo.sch.uk Phone Bristo Cathedra Choir Schoo has approximatey 250 students in the Sixth Form. The Sixth Form occupies some historic buidings and exceent faciities on our campus in the centre of the city. Genera entry requirements 5 GCSE Grades at B or above Open evening: Tuesday 18 October pm 8pm Tuesday 8 November 5.30pm 8pm The schoo has cose inks with the Cathedra and wecomes students from a faiths or none. A arge number of students join us at Post- 16, where we speciaise in A Leve teaching. In % of a A2 Grades were at A*-B and the majority of our students progress to read a wide range of subjects at university, incuding the Russe Group, Oxbridge and prestigious music coeges. The schoo has Music as its speciaism and there are is an exceptiona offer of academic and co-curricuar musica activities. In addition there are is an extensive range of other opportunities incuding team sports, Duke of Edinburgh and inks with oca businesses and universities. 13

14 Bristo Free Schoo Senior Leader for Post-16 Richard Waker Emai Website bristofreeschoo.org.uk Phone Bristo Free Schoo wi provide a new centre of exceence for post-16 education from September We wi be the newest 6th form in the city with a high quaity curricuum offer in brand new faciities. Our first cohort of Year 12 students wi have the priviege of founding the Sixth Form in one of the most popuar schoos in Bristo. Our sixth form wi have a student centred approach providing a range of experiences and opportunities within the curricuum and through an extensive extra-curricuar programme, which wi aow a students to progress on to University, Apprenticeships or Empoyment. We wi be offering 18 A eve courses and 3 BTEC eve 3 courses in order to provide a fexibe curricuum enabing our students to achieve their goas. We understand that Leve 3 courses are demanding, so we reguary put on events to ensure a great sense of community, fun and contribute to our Sixth Form Charity, decided upon by the Sixth Form Counci each year. From the Bristo Chaenge to a range of sporting teams, from Further Maths to the Duke of Edinburgh s Award, students at Bristo Free Schoo s 6th form wi not just achieve but wi exce in a areas. Genera entry requirements The minimum academic entry requirements for both BFS students and appicants from other educationa estabishments is 5 GCSEs Graded A*-C with A*-B GCSEs to access A Leve courses. Open evening: Thursday 10 November pm 7.30pm Not ony wi we offer a rich extra-curricuar programme for our students throughout the year we wi give every student the opportunity to ensure that they can reay se themseves to a prospective empoyer or university. For exampe, a students wi take part in vounteering, have the opportunity to take on eadership roes, gain work experience and ensure that they contribute to the ife of the schoo. 14

15 Cabot Learning Federation Post-16 Senior Leader for Post-16 Kath Cooper Emai Website cfpost16.org Phone Cabot Learning Federation Post 16 prides itsef on engaging with young peope in the community of Bristo; to inspire personaised journeys by preparing them for the future chaenges of the 21st century. The federation s motto embedding exceence is at the core of everything we do as we constanty strive to deiver the highest standards of teaching and earning and pastora care. As we as an extensive curricuum at Leve 3, we provide a transitiona curricuum in the areas isted beow to aow earners access to eve 3 study. Art and Design Business Catering Creative Media Heath and Socia Care Sport. A of these Leve 2 courses wi progress to eve 3 study as soon as tutors fee students are ready. Genera entry requirements Pathway 1 Entry criteria 5+A*-C Grades, studying 3 or 4 A Leves chosen from over 53 different courses found on our website. Pathway 2 Entry criteria 5+A*-C Grades, studying a combination of 3 A Leves and/or Leve 3 BTEC courses found on our website. Pathway 3 Entry criteria 2+D Grades, studying a singe subject from one of our 6 vocationa pathways as a Leve 2 into Leve 3 progression route. Open evening: John Cabot Academy Wednesday 12 October 2016 Wednesday 22 February 2017 Cabot Learning Federation Post 16 courses are taught at a number of sites in the Bristo area. Bristo Brune Academy, Bristo Metropoitan Academy, City Academy, Hanham Woods Academy, John Cabot Academy and King s Oak Academy are a part of the CLF. Any students wishing to study at these academies wi be a part of the CLF Post 16 programme and so a appications shoud be made via CLF Post 16 as described above. We offer an extensive extra-curricuar and pastora support programme of additiona quaifications, visits and sports performance teams with activities incuding EPQ, Duke of Edinburgh, Eite sport, Oxbridge/Russe Group/ University visits, and many more. 15

16 Coston s Girs Schoo Senior Leader Kerry McCuagh Emai inewman@costonsgirs.bristo.sch.uk Website costonsgirs.bristo.sch.uk Phone Genera entry requirements 6A*- C (incuding a 5 in GCSE Engish and a 5 in GCSE Maths). Open evening: Life for a Sixth Form student here at Coston s Girs Schoo is both enjoyabe and stimuating. The atmosphere is more reaxed and informa as is the reationship with subject staff. We are a diverse community where everyone is vaued and our reativey sma size means that we can provide individuaised academic and pastora support. The emphasis is on sef-motivated, independent earning, deveoping new skis and taking a greater responsibiity for your own work. These are a quaities that you wi find invauabe for university study and your future career. Our aim is that every student wi eave with a range of skis, interests and academic achievements which wi form the basis of a happy and fufied ife. At Coston s Girs Schoo we beieve you can be anything you want to be and you wi be encouraged to pursue your dreams and ambitions. As part of a sma cose knit community you wi earn confidence and the vaue of sef-beief in the pursuit of success and fufiment in whatever career you wish to foow. Thursday 20 October pm 8pm 16

17 Merchants Academy Senior Leader Ivor Brittan Emai Website merchantsacademy.org Phone We are proud to be an ambitious Academy and have high expectations for our students as they study a wide seection of A eve subjects and BTEC L3 courses. More and more students from across Bristo are choosing to join our growing sixth form which offers a newy refurbished and dedicated study centre, state of the art IT faciities, extensive co-curricuar programmes, as we as outstanding teaching and pastora support to hep shape your future. Genera entry requirements 5 A*- C incuding Engish and mathematics, with advisory guidance for some subjects. Open evening Thursday 6 October pm 8pm (interna and externa students) Thursday 17 November pm 8pm (externa students ony) Merchants Academy offers unique opportunities made possibe by the practica support of our sponsors The Society of Merchant Venturers and the University of Bristo. These incude a generous schoarship programme, excusive work experience pacements, academic and business mentors from some of the word s eading business sectors, aongside invauabe eadership opportunities through Duke of Edinburgh and Young Enterprise. Our ambition is to ensure that each of our students achieves more than they ever thought possibe. 17

18 North Bristo Post-16 Centre Senior Leader for Post-16 Marian Curran Emai or Website nbp16c.org.uk Phone or The North Bristo Post 16 Centre is a centre of exceence, with a history of success for Post 16 provision. Our coaboration between two highy successfu schoos means that we are abe to offer a wide choice of A eves, BTEC Pathways as we as the Cambridge Pre U. We aso offer a BTEC eve 2 Pathway and a Foundation GCSE retake programme. Genera entry requirements 5A*-C (incuding a 5 in GCSE Engish and a 5 in GCSE Maths). Open evening: Thursday 13 October pm 9pm Main Open Evening Cotham Schoo Thursday 3 November pm 9pm Informa Information Evening Redand Green Schoo There is more to education, in the broadest sense than simpe examination resuts. We endeavour to give you a weath of other opportunities and experiences that wi hep you throughout your ife and career. You wi earn to take more responsibiity for your own wefare and progress. You wi earn how to earn and start to become an independent earner, you wi aso be supported to become the person you want to be. The North Bristo Post 16 Centre is as much about persona growth as it is about exam success In addition to your main programme you wi take part in a range of recreationa enrichment studies this year we have over 80 enrichment choices on offer. Our students are ambitious; they embrace the chaenge to be the best they can be, inside and outside of the cassroom. 18

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20 St Bede s Cathoic Coege Senior Leader for Post-16 Macom Strange Emai sixthform@stbcc.org Website stbedescc.org Phone At St Bede s we strive for academic exceence by enabing students to achieve their potentia. Combining academic courses with an extensive co-curricuar programme wi equip each individua for a fu and rewarding ife. Genera entry requirements Minimum of 5 A*- B (or equivaent) and at east a 5 in Mathematics and Engish. Open evening Monday 7 November pm The cimate of earning within the coege is exceent. Our teachers strive to promote a ove of earning and inteectua curiosity. A young peope are vaued, stimuated and chaenged to deveop their taents to the fu whatever their abiity within this cam and industrious environment. We expect high standards from our students so that they become active, enquiring, critica and open-minded thinkers. This is a pace where achievement and effort are vaued and ceebrated. At St. Bede s, students are encouraged to take ownership of their earning and to track their own progress against chaenging targets. We expect to witness good conduct and industry throughout these important years. 20

21 St Mary Redciffe & Tempe Schoo Senior Leader Richard Wheeer Emai Website smrt.bristo.sch.uk Phone Redciffe 6th Form is a arge but very friendy schoo 6th form providing a wide range of 37 A Leve courses and some additiona GCSEs. Most students are abe to start 4 subjects in order to test out which they prefer and amost any combination can be managed. We are based in a separate 6th form buiding, athough use the new speciaist faciities of our main buiding for practica subjects. The 6th form has many enrichment opportunities and a strong tradition of students being active in issues of socia justice and vounteering in order to deveop themseves as we-rounded individuas and to prepare themseves for appications to the fu range of universities and apprenticeships, at home and abroad. Genera entry requirements To do three subjects: 5 in Engish Language, 4 in Maths (you wi need to continue to study GCSE Maths with a 4). Overa we require at east 54BBCCC, which must incude a B or 6 in an Engish/ Humanities subject. (Engish Literature Grades wi be treated as: 7=A, 6=B, 5/4=C). To start four subjects: 6 in Engish Language, 5 in Maths. Overa we require at east 65AABBB. Additiona reqirements appy in specific subjects as detaied in our prospectus. Open evenings Wednesday 9 November see website for timings There is aso an evening targetted mainy towards current Redciffe students on Thursday 20 October but others can attend if they cannot make 9th November. 21

22 Other coeges in the oca area Bath Coege Senior Leader for Post-16 Rob Sibey Emai Website bathcoege.ac.uk Phone At Bath Coege we offer courses in many subjects, both academic and vocationa across different abiity eves. We wi amost certainy offer a course in a subject you are interested in, at a Leve that is appropriate from pre-entry Leve courses that teach independent iving skis, to introductory and advanced courses in practica work skis and training for a number of professions. Bath Coege treats every student as an individua and wi work to produce a study pan that is suitabe for you. We work cosey with empoyers and many of our Higher Education students integrate working with oca businesses as part of their studies. Genera entry requirements Entry requirements depend upon the course being appied for, refer to website information. Open days and evenings Bath City Centre Campus Saturday 15 October am 1pm Higher Education Open Day Thursday 10 November pm 7pm Genera Open Evening Wednesday 8 February pm 7pm Genera Open Evening Thursday 15 June pm 7pm Genera Open Evening Somer Vaey Campus Wednesday 2 November pm 7pm Genera Open Evening Thursday 2 February pm 7pm Genera Open Evening Wednesday 7 June pm 7pm Genera Open Evening 22

23 Bristo Technoogy and Engineering Academy Senior Leader for Post-16 Joseph Muigan Emai Website bteacademy.co.uk Phone The BTE Academy is a University Technica Coege (UTC) for year-ods. UTCs offer a new educationa concept; technicay orientated to deveop highy skied young peope. Students wi be we equipped for a career, before or after university, in engineering or environmenta technoogy. Genera entry requirements 5A* C GCSE Grades incuding Engish and Maths Open evenings See website for further detais The BTE Academy benefits from expertise, speciaist faciities and an extensive engineering, science and computing curricuum. In addition, we receive significant support from a range of organisations incuding Airbus, The Roya Navy, GKN Aerospace and Ros Royce. Learning within Engineering invoves project work, with our Industria partners providing chaenges. Engish, mathematics and science are appied throughout the chaenges, giving a practica context to theoretica earning. These hands-on projects wi engage students. We offer the foowing Leve 3 programmes: Extended Dipoma Engineering, Dipoma Engineering, Extended Certificate Engineering, Dipoma Computer Science, Extended Certificate Appied Science, Extended Certificate Computing. 23

24 South Goucestershire and Stroud Coege Contact Stuart Evans Emai Website sgsco.ac.uk Phone Apprenticeships: South Goucestershire and Stroud Coege (SGS) is the new coege formed by the merger between Stroud Coege and Fiton Coege At SGS, we have four main campuses Stroud, Fiton, WISE and Berkeey Green (Opening 2017) as we as many oca community venues, and we wecome around 15,500 fu-time and parttime students of a ages every year. We aso have centres in the centre of Bristo, at the West of Engand Academy of Art and at the Bristo Zoo and Gardens. Genera entry requirements Entry requirements vary greaty depending on theeve of the course. We offer courses from Entry eve through to Leve 6 (Honours Degree). Open days and evenings Saturday 1 October am 1pm Saturday 5 November am 2pm Thursday 1 December pm - 8pm Saturday 28 January am 1pm Thursday 9 March pm 8pm Thursday 27 Apri pm 8pm Thursday 8 June pm 8pm Our campuses are based in state-of-the-art buidings in great ocations Fiton and WISE are within easy reach of the centre of Bristo. We offer a vast range of courses in an even wider range of subjects from business to sport, and from engineering to media so whatever you want to study, there s bound to be something for you. 24

25 Weston Coege Emai Website weston.ac.uk Phone Weston Coege is one of the top-performing coege s in the country. The Further and Genera Education estabishment offers a wide range of courses from entry eve to Master s Degree Leve. Weston Coege hods Ofsted s highest rating Outstanding and in 2015 won the prestigious Times Educationa Suppement Coege of the Year and Overa FE Provider of the Year awards. In 2015 the coege was awarded University Centre status, aowing it to greaty expand its HE provision to run courses on behaf of UWE and Bath Spa University. Genera entry requirements Entry requirements depend on the course(s) being appied for. Pease refer to the coege website for further information. Open evenings Wednesday 12 October pm 8pm Tuesday 8 November pm 8pm Wednesday 11 January pm 8pm Tuesday 14 March pm 8pm Wednesday 14 June pm 8pm Miions of pounds have been invested in creating fantastic faciities and the best possibe educationa environment. The ethos of Weston Coege is to put the earner first, and at the heart of everything it does. The coege works cosey with a growing number of business partners to ensure it equips its earners with the specific skis empoyers are seeking when seecting new staff. 25

26 Work Based Training Providers 3AAA Bristo Contacts Sara Withers and Kiera Evans Emai Website 3aaa.co.uk/bristo/ Phone The Bristo Academy deivers Leve 3 and 4 Apprenticeships for IT, Digita Marketing, Business Administration and Accountancy. The 3AAA Bristo team are focused, driven and passionate about changing the ives of young peope through our Outstanding Apprenticeship programmes and industry eading training provision. Genera entry requirements 5 GCSE s at C or above Leve 3&4 Apprenticeships Open evenings See Bristo Website for updates 26

27 Access to Music Contact Emiy Raston Emai appication accesstomusic.co.uk/appication Enquiries Website accesstomusic.ac.uk Phone Access to Music Bristo is the pace for anyone interested in music and media courses in Bristo, Bath and the South West. We offer speciaist courses from eves 1 4 in areas such as: Music Performance, Voca Artist, Artist Deveopment, Music Production, Sound Engineering, Music Business and Creative Media. A 2 year Leve 3 Dipoma is equivaent to 3 A eves and many of our students progress to university. to become invoved with high profie festivas such as Latitude, nationa music events and competitions promoted by Access to Music and nationa industry partners. The students aso benefit from reguar visits and workshops from a range of successfu music professionas. The staff team comprises professiona musicians and producers with a weath of industry experience and advanced teaching quaifications. The centre has 8 fuy-equipped band rehearsa rooms, a 16-track digita recording studio and a performance space. We have 3 Appe Mac technoogy suites and a media suite. Access To music has everything you need for music making whether in a band, as a singer/songwriter or using a digita audio workstation or mixing desk. It is aso a great pace for those interested in a aspects of creative media reating to music or in being a music industry entrepreneur. With reguar opportunities with oca partners such as Love Saves The Day, Knowe West Media Centre and Bristo Pays Music, work experience and industry engagement is something Access To Music encourages and heps organise for their students. Opportunities incude performing and stage managing and sound engineering at a variety of oca venues. There are opportunities 27

28 Bristo City Counci Contact Heen Sincair-Ross Emai Website bristo.gov.uk Phone Genera entry requirements BKSB testing to ascertain entry eve Open evenings Open Evenings avaiabe on request. At Bristo City Counci, we provide a vast amount of apprenticeships across different ocations throughout the city These incude: business administration customer service finance media horticuture ICT engineering sports coaching cookery heath and socia care You attend coege one day a week and work towards a quaification during your apprenticeship. You can aso go on Bristo City Counci training courses during your apprenticeship to get more experience. We have a mentoring programme that is part of the apprenticeship scheme. You get a mentor who is a former apprentice or an apprentice in the second year of their apprenticeship. They give you advice based on their experience as an apprentice. 28

29 British Engineering Manufacturers Association (BEMA Limited) Contact Ian Mynett Emai Website bema.co.uk Phone BEMA is a Group Training Association and a Trade Association. We have a Training Centre at our Yate Premises to support manufacturing since September The Centre puts apprentices through a we deveoped and broad programme of engineering practices over a nine month period. Genera entry requirements Depending on the apprenticeship that is being appied for generay GCSE Grades A-C in Engish, Maths and Science are required. A potentia apprentices are advised to appy regardess of their potentia Grades. Open evenings Open Evenings avaiabe on request. The skis that the apprentices wi deveop incude the operation of hand toos and extensive training on miing machines, both manua and Digitia Readout, Lathes both manua and CNC as we as Grinding and Driing faciities. A apprentices are tested prior to obtaining an apprenticeship and this determines the eve of apprenticeship that they wi commence on with a suitabe earning pan. We deiver a range of engineering apprenticeships at Intermediate and Advanced Leve in Machining, Maintenance, Weding and Fabrication and Technica Support. We run a Technica Certificate 1 day a week caed the Leve 3 EAL Dipoma in Engineering Technoogy. 29

30 CITB Contact Martin Reay Emai Website citb.co.uk/bconstructive Phone Genera entry requirements None needed Leve 2 quaifications Construction Apprenticeships A Trades CITB is an Ofsted Outstanding nationa provider of Apprenticeships for the Construction Sector. Working with our extensive network of coeges we are abe to offer Apprenticeships in main construction trades such as Site Technicians, Brickaying, Painting and Decorating, Carpentry and Joinery and many more. Leve 3 quaifications Construction Apprenticeships A Trades where Leve 3 programmes of study are avaiabe. From the day you submit your appication form, a dedicated Apprenticeship Officer wi be on hand to co-ordinate your training programme and support you throughout your apprenticeship. The Apprenticeship Officer is the ink between you, the coege (or training provider) and your empoyer. It s their job to monitor your progress on site and in training through reviews of your progress to make sure you achieve your fina goa. We currenty have empoyers seeking apprentices so if you are ooking for an exciting career opportunity in a sector that is rapidy changing and deveoping. Register through our website or ca Martin Reay. 30

31 Coachmakers (2nd Chance Group) Senior eader responsibe for post-16 Natasha Mis Emai Website 2ndchancegroup.org Phone Coachmakers work with young peope to provide opportunities to engage in sport and create empoyment pathways into the sport industry through education and apprenticeships. We have a wide range of educationa programmes from foundation earning through to apprenticeships to support young peope into empoyment through Sports Coaching, Fitness Instructing and Leisure. Genera entry requirements Entry requirements depend upon the course being appied for and wi be deat with on an individua basis. Leve 2 quaifications Sports Coaching Programme of Study. Sports Coaching Intermediate Apprenticeship Activity Leadership Apprenticeship. Leve 3 quaifications Sports Coaching Programme of Study. Advanced Apprenticeship in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Physica Education and Schoo Sport. Other activities Dame Key Homes Trust Get on Track Programme Sport sessions Traineeships. 31

32 Creative Youth Network Contact Sandy Hore-Ruthven Emai Website creativeyouthnetwork.org.uk Phone Creative Youth Network runs a programme of youth services offering opportunities and support to young peope, particuary those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Based around youth hubs, our engagement teams run one to one support for individuas and sma groups giving advice and guidance on drugs and acoho, home and housing issues, schoo and careers as we as reationship and sexua heath. The Creative Youth Network s mission is to inspire every young person to do more than they ever thought possibe. We encourage young peope to chaenge the barriers they face by engaging with the arts. Young peope from a backgrounds, incuding those who are financiay deprived or have experienced abuse, and those who ive with a disabiity. We get them invoved, thinking, doing, creating discovering their potentia. We aim high: we work with word cass artists and high quaity youth workers to inspire, chaenge, encourage and support. See website for further detais. 32

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34 dbs Music Contact Emai Rachae Evans Website dbsmusic.co.uk Phone Whether you re just starting out or ooking to buid on your current skis, there s no better way to get your foot in the door of the music industry than studying at dbs Music. Deveop your passion, whether it be music production, djing, sound engineering or music performance and choose from a range of Leve 3 Dipomas. dbs Music provides the very best hands-on, fuy immersive courses that cover a aspects of the music industry, with a ton of opportunities for work experience, rea word earning and working on the very best gear in word-cass studios faciities. A supported by a team of tutors passionate about passing on their years of experience and knowedge. Genera entry requirements Leve 2 4 GCSEs at Grades D F (incuding Engish and maths), however other quaifications and skis wi be considered at interview. Leve 3 4 GCSE s at Grades A C and must incude either Engish or Maths. Or an equivaent quaification such as a Leve 2 Dipoma. Engish and Maths GCSE retakes avaiabe which you can take aongside your Dipoma. Leve 2 quaifications RSL Leve 2 Dipoma Music Production Leve 3 quaifications RSL Extended Dipoma Music Production RSL Extended Dipoma DJ and Eectronic Music Production RSL Extended Dipoma Music Performance Access to HE: Music Production Open evenings Wednesday 12 October pm 8pm Wednesday 16 November pm 8pm 34

35 Didac Limited Contact Eaine Staney Emai Website didac.co.uk Phone Genera entry requirements None required. Open evenings Any time, by appointment. Didac is a speciaist provider for the Furniture, Wood and Joinery sector. Based in Crews Hoe Road, we are abe to provide a range of bespoke programmes, incuding Study Programme (for those who are required to remain in education unti they are 18), Apprenticeships and those who are unempoyed and over 19, ooking to enter into the Furniture, Wood and Joinery sector. Our Woodwise Academy provides an exceent earning environment for a, with equipment and resources that meet those found in industry. Our group sizes remain sma so the earner has a high percentage of contact time with the trainer/assessors. Leve 1 quaifications Furniture Manufacture. Leve 2 quaifications Furniture Making, Joinery, Wood Machining and Apprenticeships in the Furniture, Wood and Joinery Sectors. Leve 3 quaifications Furniture Making, Joinery, Wood Machining and Apprenticeships in the Furniture, Wood and Joinery Sectors. We do not have academic terms or start dates. 35

36 Eement Skis Training Contact Hannah Loyd Emai Website eementskistraining.co.uk Phone We are a training provider operating across the South West predominanty in the Bristo and Somerset areas. We are a facuty of Cardiff and Vae Coege, so have access to the vauabe resources of a arger coege, but maintain the ethos of a sma provider who cares about the future success of every earner. Bespoke training in the workpace for Intermediate and Advanced eve apprentices. We can taior programmes to suit empoyers and earners. Careers advice and appointments can be booked with our team of advisors to suit geographica requirements. Genera entry requirements None at Leve 2. GCSE s Grade D and above for Leve 3 Open evenings One to One appointments with our trained advisors can be made to suit. Leve 2 quaifications Intermediate Apprenticeships in Construction, Business Administration, Customer Service, Saes, Team Leading, Ceaning and Faciities Management, Passenger Carrying Vehices. Leve 3 quaifications Advanced Apprenticeships in Construction, Business Administration, Customer Service, Saes, Management, Ceaning and Faciities Management, Passenger Carrying Vehices. We have fexibe start dates for our programmes, and earners can start and any time of the year. 36

37 First 4 Skis Contact Learner Services Team Emai vacancies@first4skis.com Website first4skis.com Phone (option 1) Leve 2 quaifications Retai, Business Administration, Team Leading, Customer Service, Hospitaity, Warehousing, Logistics, Contact Centre, Financia Services. Leve 3 quaifications First4Skis is a nationa training provider that deivers first cass apprenticeships. We speciaise in quaity quaifications and commercia deveopment for business success. Retai, Business Administration, Management, Customer Service, Hospitaity, Warehousing, Logistics, Contact Centre, Financia Services. As experts in the service industry sector, we work in partnership with some of the country s most we-known brands. Our deivery approach is train today s workforce for tomorrow by boosting skis, staff retention and productivity. First4Skis apprenticeships can be taiored to the organisationa needs of a business and we support empoyers to recruit new taent into their business and give an apprentice an empoyment opportunity with training. First4Skis offer a package of dedicated persona support for businesses to attract, recruit and train suitabe candidates from a potentia poo of thousands of appicants. Backed by the City of Liverpoo Coege, earners access the best of a coege through the fexibiity of a provider and benefit from a huge network of over 500 UK empoyers ooking for work ready apprentices. 37

38 HIT Training and Connect 2 Care Contact Christina Gi Emai info@hittraining.co.uk Website hittraining.co.uk Phone At HIT and Connect 2 Care we are passionate about upskiing the industry s workforce, working with businesses to improve their profitabiity and increase repeat business as we as providing career deveopment for existing and new entrants in Hospitaity and Care sectors. HIT is a speciaist training provider providing Hospitaity industry speciaising in quaifications from entry to foundation degree eve. Connect 2 Care is a speciaist training provider providing Heath and Socia quaifications from entry to foundation degree eve. HIT has 45 offices throughout the country. Pease visit our website to find our oca office nearest to you. Genera entry requirements No entry requirements but students wi be expected to at Entry 3 for enroment on the Apprenticeship Programmes. Open evenings Various attendance at oca career events across the county. Leve 2 quaifications Connect 2 Care Heath and Socia Care Care and Hospitaity. Leve 3 quaifications Connect 2 Care Heath and Socia Care Care and Hospitaity. Leve 4 quaifications Connect 2 Care Heath and Socia Care Care and Hospitaity. Leve 5 quaifications Connect 2 Care Heath and Socia Care Management Care and Hospitaity. HIT training HIT Training Professiona Cookery Reception Hospitaity Services Bar and Restaurant Services Hospitaity Supervision and Leadership Customer Service Business Administration Ceaning Supervision Faciities Management Team Leading Licenced Hospitaity Management. 38

39 Hartciffe and Withywood Ventures (Youth provision is caed a2a) Contact Matt Griffin Emai Website hwv.org.uk Phone Ext 217 We have over 25 years experience of successfuy supporting young peope, providing them with opportunities to gain new quaifications and to deveop work skis. We offer a year ong course, but can offer shorter or onger options too. We enro earners throughout the year and keep cass sizes beow 10, where possibe, to ensure as much support as possibe can be offered to each and every earner. Genera entry requirements We work with Entry 1 earners up to and incuding Leve 2 earners. Open evenings We recruit throughout the year so are aways happy to show potentia earners around and carry out an informa interview. Entry 1 to Leve 2 quaifications Functiona Skis Maths and Engish ICT Entry 3 to Leve 1 quaifications Persona Deveopment (Step Up) Dipoma with vocationa tasters. 39

40 Interserve Learning and Empoyment Contact Thomas Hartridge Emai Website interserve.com Phone Interserve Learning and Empoyment is a nationa training provider of a number of apprenticeship pathways. Nationay we have 7000 apprentices in earning. Our apprenticeship courses and training are carried out soey in the workpace. Genera entry requirements GCSE D and above in both Maths and Engish or an equivaent quaification at Entry 3 and above. Leve 2 quaifications Business Administration Customer Service Contact/Ca Centres Retai Hair Barbering IT user Hospitaity Heath and Socia Care Eary years/chidcare Teaching Assistants Leve 3 quaifications Customer Service Contact/Ca Centres Retai Hair Barbering IT user Hospitaity Heath and Socia Care Eary years/chidcare Teaching Assistants 40

41 Learndirect Website earndirect.com Phone Learndirect are the UK s argest provider of skis, training and empoyment services. Since aunching in 2000, we ve heped 4.3 miion across the country peope deveop their skis and quaifications. We provide: Quaifications in everyday skis ike Maths, Engish and IT. Vocationa quaifications and Apprenticeships Traineeships a 6 week to 6 month programme designed to support young peope in deveoping work experience and necessary skis for an apprenticeship YourTime Empoyabiity support for young peope who are not in education, empoyment and training. YourTime is focused on securing ong term sustainabe progressions into Empoyment, back into Education, Apprenticeships or Traineeships. Learndirect has over 400 centres nationwide, with centres in centra Bristo and Bath. Genera entry requirements Course specific. YourTime no prior quaifications are required Apprenticeships dependant on eve, vocationa area and empoyer requirements. Contact us for more information. Traineeships idea for earners who need to deveop their empoyabiity skis and gain work experience, perhaps prior to an apprenticeship. Learners must not have a eve 3 quaification. Leve 1 quaifications Business Administration Retai Customer Service Warehousing Digita Media Heath and Socia Care Functiona Skis in Engish, Maths and ICT Empoyabiity Quaifications Persona and Socia Skis. Leve 2 quaifications Functiona skis in Engish, Maths and ICT Apprenticeships in: Business Administration Chidcare Customer Service Denta Nursing Heath and Socia Care Management and Team Leading Retai Recruitment IT. Leve 3 quaifications Apprenticeships in: Business Administration Chidcare Customer Service Denta Nursing Heath and Socia Care Management and Team Leading Retai Recruitment IT. 41