4th March 2022
A Night at the Musicals
New College Pontefract os proud to present ‘A Night at the Musicals’, a celebration of west end and Broadway songs. The three performances will see a return of our annual college production in the fantastic John Godber Thatre after the disruption caused by the pandemic. The dates of the shows are as follows: Thursday...
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3rd March 2022
New College PE and Sport girls take referee course
Six girls from the PE and Sport courses at New College have joined the iCanRef campaign by West Riding FA by enrolling on a refereeing course. The girls attended a session at A1 Football Factory, took an in-depth online course and undertook practical sessions at the brand new 4G facility at Aspire @ the...
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17th February 2022
Revision Evening Thursday 17th February 6-7pm
New College Pontefract’s Revision Evening will be taking place in person on the top of the LRC at 6pm on Thursday 17th February. The evening will last about an hour. This event is fully booked but don’t worry if you didn’t get a place as it is being recorded and the recording of the...
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17th February 2022
Spanish Visit to Prestigious Language House in London
On the 8th and 9th of February, our A-Level Spanish students attended a Spanish Language Day at the International House Language School in London. This is a very prestigious school in the language learning world! To make the most of their time down there, they also fitted in a visit to Covent Garden Market,...
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9th February 2022
New College’s Talented Athletes Program Sees More Success
New College Pontefract is leading the way with supporting talented athletes in education in England, having been accredited by an innovative Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) initiative. We recently caught up with two of our TASS students; Asia Harris, Year 12 who is taking the world of squash by storm, and Harrison Lee, also...
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24th January 2022
New College Sport and PE department feature in FE Week
Our Sport and PE department have featured in the latest edition of FE week. See the article below or open as a pdf using the button. Scroll to page 19 to see the story: Sport is often forgotten in discussions of FE. But with Ofsted looking hard at ‘personal development’, the award-winning PE team...
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19th January 2022
Final Open Evening of the year – Monday 7 Feb
Visit us for our final Open Evening of the year on Monday 7 February from 5pm-7pm. This is the last chance to look around the college and visit all of our subjects before the application deadline of 1 March 2022. Our results of 2021 saw us achieve record breaking high grades and we were...
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New College PE department win national FE Team of the Year Gold Award
The Sports and PE department of New College Pontefract have been presented with the Pearson National Teaching Award’s FE Team of the Year by the Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi. The Pearson National Teaching Awards, which feature on the BBC’s One Show every year, represent the highest award available for a teaching department and the Gold Award reflects a decade’s worth...
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Art Foundation given private audience with Joana Vasconcelos
The Art Foundation students at New College Pontefract were given a private audience with the internationally renowned Portuguese artist, Joana Vasconcelos, who is presently exhibiting at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Having flown in from Portugal Friday morning she kindly gave 2 hours of her time to take the students on a tour of her...
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