Newbury College hair and beauty students recently took part in locally run event Prom Day' at Donnington Grove Hotel. An event specialising in Prom and Wedding suppliers including dresses, hair and make-up and transport.
Hair and Beauty students attending the event were involved in providing the hair and make-up to the catwalk models and also offered hair-ups, make-up and nails to visitors at the event.
Curriculum Manager for Services, Rachael Elsey said, The event was a fantastic opportunity for our Hair and Beauty students to demonstrate their skills. With a constant stream of models it provided great work experience for the students and enlightened them into what could be expected of them in the industry. The students all thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
As part of their skills project Newbury College Art students set up an exhibition at The Green Park Conference Centre, Reading, where employers are voting for the pieces they would like to see displayed permanently on site.
Each year students at Newbury College carry out a skills project that meets the needs of a local organisation. The project is aimed to build students' knowledge and skills and develop their confidence in leadership, communication and teamwork. Students had been asked to produce art work on the theme of Spring' to refresh the corridors of the conference centre, Reading.
Art Lecturer Jackie Heggs said, This creative project has given students an amazing opportunity to showcase their work whilst gaining invaluable employability skills in working to a real brief. Students have really grown in confidence as a result of the experience and we hope that this project will become part of a cycle of opportunities to produce art work for the site.
Newbury College hosted the West Berkshire heat of the Rotary Young Chef Competition on Saturday 16 January in the College's excellent teaching kitchens.
A number of local schools in West Berkshire took part in the contest in which entrants, between the ages of 11 to 17, were required to prepare a healthy three course meal for two people costing no more than £15.
Curriculum Manager for Services at Newbury College Rachael Elsey said, We were delighted to host the West Berkshire round of the nationally run Young Chef of the Year Competition. There was a real buzz amongst the young competitors who enjoyed the chance to test their skills in a commercial kitchen.
The winner of the local heat was Newbury College student Martin Fisher who will go on to compete at the Regional Final in February.
Newbury College students were given the opportunity to take part in a writing competition with almost 70 students taking part from a variety of different courses. Students were invited to submit either a short story, poem, review of a book or film, or a play.
The annual writing competition provides real benefits to student. For some it develops their confidence in writing, while others use the competition as an extension of their curriculum work. Taking part in the competition also encourages students from different course areas to socialise with each other and become better acquainted with the College library.
Library Manager Fiona Lees who organised the competition said, We were very impressed with the standard of work submitted. As well as our outstanding winning entries, we had a large number of very highly commended' certificates to give out this year.
The pieces of writing were judged on originality, content and style. There were winners from a range of different courses and abilities who were; Eleanor Read, Lucia Miralles Valdivia, Chloe Goulding, Olga Helyar and Robert Marcinek.