9th August 2021
New College Student wins Bronze award at the 2021 Pearson BTEC Awards
We are delighted for New College student, Harmandeep Kaur, who won a bronze award in the BTEC Business and Enterprise Learner of the Year category at the 2021 BTEC Awards. The BTEC Awards is an annual competition where the outstanding achievements of BTEC learners, tutors, teachers, schools and colleges around the world are recognised...
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6th July 2021
Important Information Regarding Induction
What you need to know about upcoming induction...
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6th July 2021
Music students to take part in music festival
3 New College bands are to appear at the Long Division Festival in...
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25th June 2021
National Honours for New College’s Inspirational P.E. Department
New College Pontefract’s PE and Sports Studies department have won the Silver Award as FE Team of the Year from the Pearson National Teaching Awards, following their outstanding commitment to changing the lives of the students they work with every day. The award means they go on to a short list of a handful...
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22nd June 2021
Music students to take part in music festival
The music students at New College Pontefract are certainly looking to the future post lockdown restrictions. 3 of our bands have applied and been successful in securing a booking for Wakefield’s famous Long Division festival in September! Look out for the release of the schedule and confirmed acts on June 30th! Blue Chandelier are...
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21st June 2021
Y13 Leavers’ Celebration Arrangements
Dear Y13 students, Due to the recent increase in Covid cases, we will now be holding our leavers’ celebration on Friday 25 June at 4pm as LIVE STREAM ONLY. We are deeply disappointed to not be able to see you in person for this wonderful celebration of your 2 years with us. We hope...
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17th June 2021
Important Information Regarding Induction
We are looking forward to welcoming you this week for one of our induction days. Please attend the day you have been invited to so we can keep numbers down and make sure you have a subject session that is running on that day. The day will give you a flavour of what New...
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9th June 2021
New College Pontefract student benefits from support of college in joining prestigious summer school
New College Pontefract tries to ensure it provides full support to students throughout their time at college, encouraging them when considering progression onto university, apprenticeships and employment. A recent example of a student who has benefitted from this is Thomas Shorthouse, a Year 13 student who has just finished two years at New College....
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24th May 2021
May Revision Workshops
Below is the schedule of May half term revision workshops that will be running at college. Click to...
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21st May 2021
New College students complete self-defence course as part of expanding enrichment programme
New College Pontefract have a wide range of extra-curricular activities on offer, which is expanding every year. One recent addition has been a self-defence class, encouraging students to think about their own personal safety. The course, provided by Chuldow Martial Arts in Royston, assessed students on their technical competence and then required them to...
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