28th June 2024
New College brings together young and old with its summer fayre
New College Pontefract hosted a summer fayre for local care home residents and primary school children this week, with stalls, music, cakes and sweets provided by staff and students from the town’s sixth form college. With the sun smiling down, residents from Vicarage Court, Newfield Lodge, Walton Manor and MHA Communities housing mingled with...
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10th June 2024
Rare flower spotted at New College Pontefract
New College Pontefract has continued to embrace ecological diversity with its “no mow” policy for parts of the site, a policy which has led to an exciting discovery. Nestled amongst the grasses, daisies and poppies, an eagle-eyed member of staff has spotted an example of the bee orchid (Ophrys apifera), a flower rarely seen...
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18th April 2024
Next Steps Evening
See the below details for our Next Steps Evening in college on 24 April...
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1st February 2024
New College Pontefract secures fourteen offers from Oxford and Cambridge
The region’s top provider of A-levels has followed up last year’s outstanding Ofsted report and exceptional exam results with another prestigious achievement: securing fourteen offers from Oxford and Cambridge. Forty-one students applied, all of whom committed significant amounts of time and energy to the demanding application process, before twenty-three were invited for interview. This...
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University of Hull Research
The University of Hull are supporting an important research study aimed at understanding the support available to parents when their children make crucial decisions about their future after leaving school or college. This research is being carried out by Lampada Digital Solutions. We are reaching out to parents of students who are in the...
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12th December 2023
NCLT is officially the second most inclusive employer in the UK
New Collaborative Learning Trust has been ranked second in the National Centre for Diversity’s list of the 100 most inclusive workplaces and has won their “Further Education Provider of the Year” award. This emphatic validation of NCLT’s commitment to inclusivity reflects years of consistent focus on promoting equality and diversity in the workplace. Combined...
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14th November 2023
Open Event Parking
We look forward to seeing everyone attending our open event this evening. Please be aware that parking is limited. We encourage people to use the overflow parking at Pontefract Collieries or alternative parking in Pontefract, avoiding Park Lane which can get extremely busy. We are open from 4:30-7:30pm. See our map below for the...
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1st November 2023
NCLT achieves an outstanding triple
New Collaborative Learning Trust has achieved the remarkable feat of having its three sixth form colleges all achieve outstanding in their respective recent Ofsted inspections. New College Bradford were inspected by Ofsted last month and have had their outstanding report published this week. They join New College Pontefract, who were inspected in May 2023,...
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4th October 2023
Parents Evening – 26th September 2023
Re-watch our Parents’ Welcome Evening that took place on 26 September...
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17th August 2023
New College students achieve excellent results again in line with pre-Covid figures
New College Pontefract students have achieved another set of excellent results this year, meaning that the significant majority have progressed to the university course, job or apprenticeship of their choice. This year, 60% of A-level students achieved an A*, A or B in their results, matching the same figure for 2019, reflecting not only...
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