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Wednesday 15th
June 6-8pm
Wednesday 31st
August 6-8pm
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Adult Skills & Learning
Evening classes - Short courses - Weekly sessions - Weekend workshops
Evening classes
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Short courses
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Weekly sessions
Dates, times and prices available from June
Courses Leading to
Qualifications
Accounting
Art & Design
Barbering
CAD
Care
Catering
Childcare
Counselling
Dental Nursing
Early Years
Electrical Installations
Engineering
English GCSE
ESOL
Fine Art
Food Hygiene
Health
Humanities
Interior Design
Law
Literacy
Management
Maths GCSE
Media
Music
Numeracy
Personnel
Photographic Make Up
Playwork
Social Sciences
Teaching
Teaching Assistants
TESOL
Web Design
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Weekend workshops
www.northbrook.ac.uk
Courses for Leisure
Adobe Flash
Angels & Unicorns
Aromatherapy
Art
Art History
Cake Decoration
Chakra
Chinese
Colour & Image
Confidence Boosting
Cookery
Creative Writing
Crystal Healing
Cushion Making
Drawing
Dream Analysis
Dressmaking
Emotional Intelligence
Engineering
Family History
French
Gardening
German
History
Hopi Ear Treatment
Italian
Japanese
Jewellery
Life Drawing
Massage
Meditation
Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerPoint
Painting
Pastels
Philosophy
Photography
Photoshop
Phytotherapy
Plumbing
Pottery
Printmaking
Reflexology
Reiki
Relaxation
Sculpture
Sound Healing
Spanish
Stained Glass
Stress Management
Watercolour
Weaving
Willow Lanterns
Woodwork
Yoga
Award winning students Individual support
Industry standard facilities
Matt and Marco Win Again
Two former Design students have designed a game which has won two
prestigious awards in the United States.
Matt Woolven and Marco Marino won the Independent Propeller
Award at SXSW Screenburn in Texas for GLiD, a single player game
which features a gentle insect-type creature, tasked with exploring and
restoring an abandoned world.
The pair collected a winner’s cheque of $50,000 and are now
deciding whether to sign a contract with a publisher or to set up their
own company.
Matt and Marco also won the Student Showcase award at the
Independent Games Festival earlier this year.
Matt said, “It’s been pretty crazy and we’ve had people like Sony
approach us. The picture has been
changing very fast and we are
hoping that GLiD will be available
across all platforms including:
Xbox, PS3, iPhone and iPad.”
Matt is dyslexic and has been
receiving Learning Support during
his studies. He is keen to
encourage other students with
dyslexia to follow their dreams.
PIC IS LOW
RES?
Matt and Marco receiving their award
“I worked with Matt for
the full two years as
his Learning Support
tutor, because he has
dyslexia. I am delighted
for Matt and his exciting
achievements. He works
hard to overcome his
dyslexic difficulties and
is an inspiration to all
other learners.”
Carol Penn – Learning Support
Tutor
Top Designer Visits
Northbrook
Renowned fashion designer Julian Roberts visited Northbrook to teach
fashion students about his innovative pattern cutting method.
Professor Julian Roberts has shown 13 collections at London Fashion
Week since 1999, under label names such as JULIANAND, nothing
nothing and Julian and Sophie - winning a BFC
New Generation Award for each label.
Julian is the inventor of a garment pattern cutting
method called ‘subtraction cutting’, which he
demonstrates live in front of audiences around the
world.
Students studying on Northbrook’s BA and
Diploma Fashion courses crowded into the lecture
theatre to see the lecture and demonstration. Later that
day, Julian helped a group of second year students to
have a go at using the technique themselves.
Julian demonstrating
his technique
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Higher Education
Students Visit the Big Apple
A group of 40 lucky Northbrook students have returned from a trip to
New York City.
The students are studying for BA degree courses in the Fashion and
Textiles department and they were taken on the six day educational trip
by their tutors.
The group stayed in a Times Square hotel and visited several art
and design museums, including the Fashion Institute of Technology,
the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. They also saw the Empire State building
and enjoyed a walk through the snow in Central Park.
New Look for
The University Centre
New signage has been installed at the Durrington campus, in line with
the site’s University Centre branding.
Northbrook provides a wide range of university level courses with a
largely vocational thrust, which will sustain students’ progress into the
world of future employment.
A total of 541 students graduated from Northbrook’s university
level courses last year - a number which has been rising steadily over
the last ten years.
“Taking the students to one of the fashion capitals of the world like New York is an
incredibly important part of their global fashion awareness and an enriching cultural
activity. In many cases it’s the first time students have had the chance to travel
across the Atlantic and to experience the excitement of New York, a city so famous,
it feels like you’re in a giant movie set!”
Simon Seivewright – Course Leader of BA (Hons) Fashion Design
Super Vee Back in Action
Motorsport students have helped to put a 1970s Supernova
Formula Vee race car back on its wheels after an extensive
rebuild.
Super Vee, believed to be a factory development car, came
to the Auto Department as a total restoration project. In the
USA Formula Super Vee was the feeder class for drivers to
move on to Indy car racing and the car was raced in the USA,
reportedly lapping the oval tracks at over 170 mph.
On its return to the UK, Super Vee was used for several
years up to the early 90s in sprints and hill climbs. It was
until very recently the fastest 1600cc race car at the Brighton
Speed Trials and it is the College’s intention to take it back to
the Brighton event.
“This has been a long and drawn out process as undertaken by FdEng Motorsport
Degree students, in conjunction with several subject experts from around the
country. However we will now soon be in a position to present the fruit of our labours
to an eager Motorsport community who have high regard for this vehicle and the
work we have undertaken on it, as an interesting piece of World Motorsport heritage.
It is testament to our staff and students who have had to design and build most of
the car from scratch. I would like to personally thank them for their efforts.”
David Tucker – Course Leader FdEng Motorsport Engineering
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Students Jet off to Barcelona
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Students
Install the
Unexpected
in Gallery
Fine Art degree students
have displayed their work in
‘Interventions’, an exhibition
of site specific work at Pallant
House Gallery in Chichester.
The work is the result of a
year-long project in which
students and their tutors met
at Pallant House to discuss
ideas for making daring and
unexpected art works that
could be situated anywhere in
Pallant House except where
you might expect to see them,
on the walls of the gallery.
From the surreal humour of
Maureen Hagger’s giant
soft-sculpture clubs made from
men’s ties, to the exquisitely
detailed miniature photographs
by Yasmin Raphael, the
‘Interventions’ exhibition takes
the visitor on a journey of
discovery which will help them
to see the building and its
contents through fresh eyes.
BA Photo Arts and Foundation
students took an exciting trip to
Barcelona in January to take in the
cultural sights of the City.
The students took a Gaudi tour,
visited a number of art galleries
and viewed an art school and
an artist’s studio. They also took
photographs of their trip and
made them into Polaroid-style
shots as part of their creative-lens
art practice.
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14-19 Education
Sussex Spring Award Winners
Student
Success in
Wella Awards
A budding hairdresser from the
Hair & Beauty department has
been successful in winning a
place in a Regional Heat of the
prestigious Wella Professionals
XPOSURE 2011 Competition.
Two Northbrook students have won prizes at the annual awards for
Sussex Colleges held in Brighton. Simon Browne was named West
Sussex Apprentice of the Year and Ibrahim Wario was named City
& Guilds Sussex Learner of the Year. The Sussex Spring Awards
ceremony, organised by FE Sussex, was held at the Brighton Hilton
Metropole. Several Northbrook students helped out at the event, with
Cabin Crew students in their uniforms meeting and greeting the guests
and Games Design students offering an interactive demonstration.
Award winner Ibrahim Wario is 21 and from Hove. He has been
studying for a City & Guilds qualification in Aeronautical Engineering.
Ibrahim was a refugee who came to England with only a primary
school certificate and an ambition to one day work on aeroplanes.
After taking classes in Maths, Physics and English, he was able to
join an aircraft maintenance course at Northbrook College. Andrew
Bellinger, Head of Aeronautical Engineering, said, “Ibrahim Wario is a
hard working and diligent student with excellent attendance and solid
achievement, who has had to overcome many disadvantages in life to
get to where he is today.”
Simon Browne, 28, from Littlehampton, has been studying on a
Northbrook Apprenticeship leading to a Certificate in Property, while
employed by estate agent Molica Franklin. Selina Bishop, Apprenticeship
Assessor, said, “Simon pushed the boundaries by insisting that his
targets were in line with the more experienced senior staff.”
Momma Cherri Comes to
Northbrook
Charlotte Golby, an NVQ
Level 2 student, cut and
coloured a model’s hair and
then organised a photo-shoot in
collaboration with the College’s
Photography students. In
addition to thinking about
hairstyles, make-up and clothing
were considered to help
complete the overall look.
Emma Kite, head of Hair,
Beauty and Hospitality said,
“It’s fantastic that Charlotte
Golby has been selected to take
part in one of the Regional Heats
and we wish her lots of luck.”
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Celebrity chef Momma Cherri thrilled Northbrook students with a
visit to the College’s Hospitality and Catering department this week.
Momma Cherri rose to fame on TV when her Brighton ‘Soul
Food Shack’ was featured on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’.
She gave a colourful and lively presentation, with pictures, films
and music, during which she spoke about her recipes as well as
offering the students business advice on setting up a restaurant.
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New 14 -19 Centre
Under Construction
Construction work on the new Broadwater 14–19
Centre is now well underway. Phase one of the
building will include the new Hair and Beauty salons, classrooms and College reception area.
It is anticipated that the Reception area will be open in September, with the new teaching rooms
available shortly afterwards. A separate ‘sustainable classroom’ will also be under construction shortly,
allowing sustainable building techniques to be taught and showcased.
The College was awarded a £1 million redevelopment grant by the Skills Funding Agency – one of only
15 colleges nationally to receive this allocation.
Students Perform at
Glyndebourne
Army Helicopter
Visits Northbrook
An army helicopter flew in to visit Northbrook
College students recently.
The Lynx helicopter’s visit was part of an army
careers event held at the College’s Shoreham Airport
campus The Army’s careers service is keen to recruit
aircraft technicians from Northbrook’s aeronautical
engineering courses. The students were shown
around the inside of the helicopter by the pilot and
door gunner, where they got a first hand look at
some of the equipment.
The careers day was organised by the Royal Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers and included a presentation,
a display of the various types of uniforms, seeing
what makes up a soldier’s field kit and the opportunity
to try on body armour, helmets and various webbing.
The students were also split into groups which were
each given a Haynes model four cylinder engine to
build and they were assessed on technical prowess,
the ability to work as a team, organisational skills and
interpretation of technical information.
Students with learning difficulties are taking part
in a choir for young people, which will perform at
Glyndebourne.
James Redwood, renowned composer and choir
master from Glyndebourne, came to Northbrook to
offer taster sessions for the students and to sing
with them.
The project is a joint venture with Carousel, a
learning disabilities performing arts company,
Glyndebourne and Pallant House Gallery, and involves
LLDD students from various colleges in the South.
Rehearsals will be weekly in Brighton, with the
College providing a minibus for our students.
The show premieres at Glyndebourne with
performances in Brighton, Chichester and London,
followed by a tour in late spring. The idea for the
project came from the 2012 Paralympic Games,
which will be the first year that people with learning
disabilities will be able to participate.
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Adult & Community Learning
Paintings Selected
for St Barnabas
ESOL Ladies
that Lunch
Art & Design Lecturer Maggie Tredwell and one
of her students, Andrew Griffiths, have had their
paintings selected for the new St Barnabas
Hospice. Their artwork will hang with nine other
pieces on loan from members of the West Sussex
Art Society.
Maggie is Lead Art Lecturer in Adult and
Community Learning and Andrew, who has
completed the Northbrook Portfolio Programme
in Art & Design is currently attending an Adult and
Community Learning Painting and Drawing course.
Northbrook’s Adult and Community Learning
Department are holding weekly workshops on
English Language Development and Exercise
for Health & Wellbeing, for Black Minority Ethnic
Learners at Broadwater Parish Centre.
The Everyday Beginner’s English class is
regularly attended by eight ladies from the Muslim
community. The learners vary from those who have
just arrived from a fairly rural setting in Bangladesh,
to those who have been here for some years and
whose children speak English fluently. Jo Thatcher,
Skills for Life Lecturer said: “We have great fun
learning the basics and there is much giggling and
laughter. During the session we drop in for coffee/
tea in the Parish Centre where the arrival of the
ladies is eagerly awaited by the fabulous volunteer
coffee shop team. To be in a non-threatening English
speaking environment and interacting with the
community is just what will improve the language
skills of these ethnic minorities - and they do seem
to be enjoying it!”
For the past three years Northbrook
College has been allocated funding from central
government to support community and voluntary
Green Cuisine
Scoops Award
“We were shown round by Steven
Stratford, who works at St Barnabas
as the artist in residence. The building
is beautifully designed; the internal
spaces really connect with the natural
landscape of the gardens and courtyards
outside. Steven explained how important
art can be in enhancing the experience
of visitors, patients and staff. Their
aim, at the hospice, is to create an
environment that is in harmony with the
holistic care provided.”
Maggie Tredwell – Art & Design Lecturer
A restaurant opened
by a former hospitality
student has been
awarded ‘Best New
Business’ at the
Splash FM awards.
Clare McIvor
opened ‘Green
Cuisine’ last year, an
environment-friendly
restaurant which
offers home-cooked
vegetarian, vegan,
gluten-free and
healthy meals - all
made using locallysourced ingredients.
Green Cuisine’s
ethical stance
extends throughout
the business with the
use of eco-friendly
packaging, ‘nonanimal tested’ cleaning
products and even
‘ozone-friendly’ squirty
cream.
‘Best Restaurant’
was awarded to ‘Food’
Restaurant, whose
Head Chef is Alberto
Castro, another
Northbrook hospitality
graduate. The Splash
FM awards, held at
the Dome Cinema,
celebrate the best
that Worthing and the
surrounding area has
to offer – recognising
everything from a
successful business,
through to individuals
with a heart of gold.
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Caroline’s Delicious
Offering...
Caroline Hansen, a
Creative Writing student
at Northbrook College,
has published her first
anthology of 21 poems
entitled ‘Raspberries’.
The vibrant pink volume
showcases Caroline’s
talent and the selection
portrays an impressive
range of moods.
‘Raspberries’, the title
poem, narrates the time
when Caroline’s husband,
Derek, discovered he
had cancer. With Derek
now in remission,
Caroline has decided
that all proceeds
from the sale of the
anthology will go to
Macmillan Nurses and
the Church of the Good
Shepherd. The volume
costs £5 - please
contact the Adult and
Community Learning
Department for copies.
Jo’s Malawi Mission
A Skills for Life tutor has spent her summer
holidays delivering training in Community Health
Care and Education in Malawi.
Jo Thatcher visited the country with a church
charity team, going to the northern region of Malawi
as well as the surrounding villages and Area 49, the
sprawling slum district of Lilongwe, Milawi’s capital.
The Village Chief invited the team in to the village
communities, where they carried out needs
assessments and delivered topics that the villagers
themselves identified as priorities. Sessions, such
as building a ‘house’ in the dust using bricks that
had been baking in the sun and working out a
two-day menu based on balanced diet principles,
were taught in an informal atmosphere with much
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“Our organisation and the often
socially isolated learners we represent
are very grateful for this provision.
The classes enable the ladies to build
up their confidence, improve their
language skills, meet new people and
take small steps towards integrating
into the wider community. Thank you
so much.” Henna Chowdhury – Development
and Support Manager at Black and Minority
Ethnic Community Services
sector organisations and agencies in Adur and
Worthing who work with disadvantaged and socially
excluded groups.
improvised
drama and
laughter.
At the end
the different
groups devised
an ‘action plan’
to show how
they intended
to go back
to their communities and teach them about basic
health care.
Jo said, “It has been fantastic and amazing to
see people who felt hopeless and overwhelmed
become revitalised. They had a real sense of
purpose when they realised they could change
their lives themselves without waiting for charity
handouts from the West.”
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Partnership Working & Employers
TQS Celebrations!
Frank Buttle Award
Following successful accreditation of the Training Quality Standard
in August 2010, Northbrook held a celebratory reception for staff,
governors, partners and clients, providing the opportunity to officially
present the recently received plaque and certificate.
Partners, Les Webb from Campus Training and Clare Mangan
representing Adur & Worthing Borough Council, presented the award
and congratulated the College on its outstanding work with local
employers and the high reputation it had developed.
Sue Dare, College Principal, explained how difficult the standard
was to achieve, but due to the strong employer relationships in place,
the College was in a position to successfully go forward with its application.
Jane Claxton, Chair of the Corporate Governing Body, congratulated
the College on its success and was delighted to receive the award on
behalf of the College.
Northbrook has been awarded a quality mark for its
commitment to looked-after children and care leavers.
The Frank Buttle Trust Quality Mark is awarded to
universities and colleges in the UK and Northbrook
is the first Further Education College in the south of
England to receive recognition. In order to qualify,
Northbrook underwent a rigorous assessment and
had to fulfil a number of requirements.
The Frank Buttle Trust set up the Quality Mark in
2006 in recognition of higher education institutions
who go that extra mile to support students who have
been in public care.
MPs Encourage Employers to take
on Apprentices
During this year’s National Apprenticeship Week,
local MPs Tim Loughton and Peter Bottomley both
paid visits to Northbrook campuses and met with
apprentices and some of their employers.
Minister and local MP Tim Loughton met
apprentices at Northbrook College’s Business
Development Unit, to mark national Apprenticeship
Week. During his visit, Mr Loughton met West
Sussex Apprentice of the Year, Simon Browne
and Tim Franklin, Director and Founder of local
estate agent Molica Franklin, who employed Simon
as an apprentice. Mr Loughton also took a tour
of the Business Development Unit and met two
young apprentices who have joined the Business
Development Team at Northbrook. Mr Loughton
spoke of the important role that apprenticeships
have to play in tackling youth unemployment,
helping the economy and in up-skilling the
workforce.
West Worthing MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, also
visited Northbrook and met a group of young
apprentices at the Broadwater campus, where they
have been employed as trainee electricians working
on the re-building of their own campus. Peter
Bottomley met apprentices who work for Simpson
Electrical, the company contracted to carry out
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electrical work on the eagerly awaited rebuilding
of Northbrook’s Broadwater campus. During the
visit, a plaque was presented to Simpson Electrical
in recognition of their support of apprentices at
Northbrook College over many years.
The government is aiming to create 100,000
more apprenticeship positions by 2014. Apprentices
gain qualifications by attending college one day per
week while they work for an employer for the rest of
the week. During Apprenticeship Week, Northbrook
highlighted the benefits to businesses of employing
an apprentice, which can prove a low cost asset to
businesses in these difficult times.
Apprenticeship Celebrations
The Apprenticeship Team celebrated the success of their apprentices at their fourth annual
Celebration Evening. Certificates were awarded as well as 16 ‘special’ vocational awards for
apprentices who had achieved exceptionally well in
their specific sectors.
Kathy Kelly, a Health and Social Care apprentice
sponsored by Northbrook, was awarded ‘Apprentice
of the Year’.
Rob Stephenson and Paul Tucker from Rolls
Royce Motor Cars Ltd gave a presentation on Rolls
Royce, the Company, and the Apprenticeship Team
showcased their new DVD which will shortly be
available on the College website.
Students Brighten
Up Train Station
Towards Independence students who are currently
studying Community Projects, were asked by
Sussex Community Rail Partnership and Southern
Rail to create three posters to brighten up the
underpass at Worthing Station.
Students took photos of the piers in Brighton,
Worthing and Bognor Regis and made three stunning
mixed media collages.
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Frank Buttle Award
Northbrook has been awarded a quality mark for its
commitment to looked-after children and care leavers.
The Frank Buttle Trust Quality Mark is awarded to
universities and colleges in the UK and Northbrook
is the first Further Education College in the south of
England to receive recognition. In order to qualify,
Northbrook underwent a rigorous assessment and
had to fulfil a number of requirements.
The Frank Buttle Trust set up the Quality Mark in
2006 in recognition of higher education institutions
who go that extra mile to support students who have
been in public care.
Apprenticeship Celebrations
Produced by the Marketing & Communications Department,
The Apprenticeship Team celebrated the success of their apprentices at their fourth annual
Celebration Evening. Certificates were awarded as well as 16 ‘special’ vocational awards for
apprentices who had achieved exceptionally well in
their specific sectors.
Kathy Kelly, a Health and Social Care apprentice
sponsored by Northbrook, was awarded ‘Apprentice
of the Year’.
Rob Stephenson and Paul Tucker from Rolls
Royce Motor Cars Ltd gave a presentation on Rolls
Royce, the Company, and the Apprenticeship Team
showcased their new DVD which will shortly be
available on the College website.
The University Centre Worthing,
Northbrook College Sussex,
Littlehampton Road, West Sussex BN12 6NU
Telephone: 0845 155 60 60
Fax: 01903 606073
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www.northbrook.ac.uk
Students Brighten
Up Train Station
Towards Independence students who are currently
studying Community Projects, were asked by
Sussex Community Rail Partnership and Southern
Rail to create three posters to brighten up the
underpass at Worthing Station.
Students took photos of the piers in Brighton,
Worthing and Bognor Regis and made three stunning
mixed media collages.
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