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...
Read more2nd December 2021
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...
Read more30th November 2021
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...
Read more17th November 2021
Department for Education update regarding the availability of second vaccinations for 16 and 17 year olds
The Department for Education have provided an update about the availability of second vaccinations for 16 and 17 year olds (see below). 16 and 17 year olds will be able to make bookings for a second vaccination at local vaccination centres from Monday 22nd November as long as there is a gap of at least 12 weeks since your...
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3rd November 2021
OPEN EVENING – Tuesday 16 November – 4:30-7:30pm
Our first open event of the academic year for September 2022 entry was a fantastic success. It was great to see so many prospective students checking out the college. If you couldn’t make it, or want to have a second visit to find out even more, then come along on Tuesday 16 November from...
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Y12 Parents’ Welcome Evening Recording
Here you can watch the recording of our Y12 parents’ welcome evening and download the accompanying...
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OPEN SATURDAY – 16 October 2021, 10am-2pm
After what feels like forever, we can once again open our doors for our first open event of the academic year for September 2022 entry. Come along on Saturday 16 October from 10am-2pm to take a look around the TES 2020 Sixth Form College and Overall FE Provider of the Year and find out...
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Welcome back event for Y13
Here you can watch the recording of the Y13 welcome back event that took place on Tuesday 21 September...
Read more20th September 2021
COVID-19 Vaccination Site at New College Pontefract
On Monday 4/10/21 and Friday 8/10/21 between 10am and 2pm there will be an NHS vaccination team at New College Pontefract. They will be offering COVID-19 vaccinations to staff and students who are not yet fully vaccinated (second vaccinations will only be given to individuals 8 weeks after their first vaccination). A team of NHS...
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