14th September 2020
New College’s Leadership Team win a National Teaching Award
New College Pontefract’s senior team have won a silver Pearson National Teaching Award for FE Team of the Year. The award reflects the success that the leadership team have had over the past five years, with the expansion of the college, the creation of two sister colleges and the consistent outstanding success rates of...
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17th August 2020
Statement Regarding A-Level Centre Assessment Grades
Click below to access our statement on Centre Assessment...
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14th August 2020
New College achieves excellent results in the midst of unprecedented difficulties
Students from New College Pontefract have continued their record of excellent outcomes, despite the difficulties of working with a controversial assessment system. This year’s cohort achieved an A-Level pass rate of 99.5% and over 55% of students achieved an A*-B. In BTEC courses, 94% of students achieved a high grade, i.e. a distinction or...
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5th June 2020
New College teacher nominated for Oxford University Inspirational Teacher award
New College teacher, Mark Anderson, has received a nomination for a University of Oxford Inspirational Teachers Award. The University’s Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Office runs the annual award scheme which recognises the crucial role teachers and careers advisors play in encouraging talented students in their schools or colleges. A selection of current first-year Oxford...
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21st May 2020
New College students receive offers from Oxbridge
New College Pontefract has once again seen a healthy number of students gain offers from Oxbridge, with five students receiving the offer of a place to study at one of the two elite universities. Brian Coughlan, Oxbridge Programme, coordinator said “We are delighted that once again our students have successfully received offers of places...
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8th April 2020
New College Pontefract ranked third best sixth form college in the country for achievement
The release of data by the DfE’s Education and Skills Funding Agency has revealed that New College Pontefract has been ranked as the third best sixth form college in the county for achievement. The college has been ranked in the top 5 for the past six years, but this announcement sees New College Pontefract...
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2nd April 2020
Update for Year 11 students – 02/04/20
Click on the letter for information regarding Summer Independent Learning, students awaiting interviews and enrolment/course...
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31st March 2020
Queries about GCSE results / conditional offers / course choice / enrolment
Click to read our letter regarding GCSE results, conditional offers, course choice and...
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30th March 2020
New College top college in Wakefield for student progress
New College Pontefract once again ranked as the top college in Wakefield for student progress. The release of the latest figures from the Department for Education (DfE) once again shows New College’s consistency as a provider of excellent post-16 education. The figures, based on last summer’s A-Level results, show that New College Pontefract has...
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24th March 2020
Bursary Update
Dear Parent/Carer/Student We are unfortunately unable to process any new claims for the College bursary for the current 2019/20 academic year. The amount of funds we are provided with from the ESFA (Funding body) was set at the start of the year and we have made allocations to students based on this sum of...
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