Archive for February, 2010

The 10 Peaks College Challenge

Anyone interested in taking part in this year’s `10 Peaks College Challenge’, both staff and students please attend one of the following briefings in B227:
Tuesday 23rd February 4.30-5.15
Thursday 25th February 12.00-12.45
The 10 Peaks College Challenge has been co-ordinated by the College’s Sports Department, who have organised different challenges as an annual event for the past [...]

We’re going to Wembley!

On Thursday 11th February the BTEC Level 1 / E2E Sports group organised a trip to Wembley Stadium. Students prepared transport, identified the hazards of the trip, and learnt all about England’s National Stadium. The tour included a visit to England’s changing rooms ( and being able to sit on their favourite player spot was [...]

Apprenticeships in NNC workplace

North Notts College are more aware than most of the advantages of employing apprentices, currently they represents 2.5% of its workforce and these work in a variety of areas across College.
They include Jo and Kelly who work in Registry, Andrew who works in Student Services, Ellie who works in Work Based Learning, Naomi who works [...]

Auschwitz Shock

North Nottinghamshire College Modern Apprentices Ryan Wawrzyniak and Ashley Campbell, both 17 and from Worksop, were among 200 students from across the East Midlands who visited Poland for a day as part of the Lesson From Auschwitz Project run by the Holocaust Education Trust.
Before the visit, they heard from Kitty Hart-Moxom who grew up in [...]

‘Stomp’ Comes to Worksop

A member of the band ‘Stomp’ is coming to North Notts College on the 10th February. ‘Stomp’ are a group of artists who use bins, pots and pans etc to make music, they have toured all over the world and will be in Sheffield this week.
Billy Hickling (band member) will be coming to Worksop to do [...]

Citizenship Event

The  College ESOL dept teamed up with Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust to organise a special event for students whose first language is not English and other students and members of the local community who need to find out about the community services available to them.
The Citizenship Event was held at the College’s Fluid Power Centre [...]