13th June 2016
Pauline Hagen awarded an OBE
Pauline Hagen, Principal of New College Pontefract, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. “I am very proud and grateful for this recognition of work in the field of education,” commented Pauline. “Over the course of a career in the education system I have been reminded daily of just how...
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25th May 2016
Sports Awards a great success
An array of awards were handed out to New College Pontefract students at this year’s Sports Awards ball. The event, hosted by the A1 Football Factory in Pontefract, saw students winning prizes for sports team of the year, including rugby, football and netball. Sports personality of the year went to Lois Whitaker and Coach...
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19th May 2016
Best in the North of England for the second year running!
The latest set of figures from the DfE’s Skills Funding Agency have been released this month, revealing that New College Pontefract has the third highest achievement rate of any sixth form college in the country. This means that for the second year running, the college is the best sixth form college in the North...
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9th May 2016
Party candidates face New College students in political debate
New College Pontefract will host a question time debate on Friday 13 May, ahead of the European Union Referendum in June. Labour MP Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford), Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood), Labour MEP Richard Corbett (Yorkshire and Humber) and UKIP MP Toby Horton (Thirsk and Malton) will be the...
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27th April 2016
New College students compete in the AoC Championships
New College Pontefract once again successfully competed in the national championships for the Association of Colleges in Newcastle this month. The outstanding sixth form provided students in 9 out of the 13 events possible including badminton, basketball and cricket. This meant there were no other college with a greater number of competitions covered. For...
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20th April 2016
The sweet sound of success – grade 8 exam perfection for New College students
New College has seen three students achieve Grade 8 in their respective disciplines this term. Myvany Smith achieved top marks in her Grade 8 flute exam with a distinction. An accomplished musician, Myvany has already achieved Grade 8 in the saxophone, Grade 8 with distinction in the recorder, along with Grade 6 in bassoon,...
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22nd March 2016
Media students nominated by the British Universities Film and Video Council
Media students from New College Pontefract are celebrating after their work was nominated in the Learning on Screen Awards by the British Universities Film and Video Council. Anna Levick, Head of Media at New College will be joined by some of the students at the British Film Institute, Southbank in London for the award...
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16th March 2016
New student president elected for Sept 2016
New College Pontefract have elected the next student president for September 2016. Current Student President Thomas Talbot officially handed over the reins to the new Student President Jack Varley last week. The elected Student Executive President and Vice President sit on the College governing body and attend meetings. They also speak at college functions...
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15th March 2016
Sport Relief at New College
Staff and students are putting on their most ambitious week of events yet to raise money for Sport Relief. In the build up to Friday, multiple events are taking place including staff vs student sports matches, a bake sale, pie the teacher and sponge the teacher. There will be staff vs students’ netball, a...
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15th March 2016
Successful revision campaign launch week
A special week of activities to launch the college’s revision campaign took place at New College Pontefract last week. Staff wore revision shirts highlighting how crucial the time leading up to the exam season and all students watched a film about revision recorded by some of the college teachers. Students got in on the...
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