This course gives you a great foundation in basic hair and beauty skills to develop your self-confidence, employability and core skills, so you can make informed choices about your further study/career choices.

Here’s just some of the units you may study:
Skincare - you’ll learn to use professional products to perform a skincare routine within a salon environment.
Make-up - you’ll research current trends and learn to prepare products to create a contemporary image.
Salon skills - you’ll develop skills in general salon duties, such as shampooing and conditioning, scalp massage and drying...

With PEZ, you’ll come into college 3 days a week, but sometimes you’ll learn at outside locations. So instead of being in the classroom, you might find yourself behind the scenes at McDonalds or Costa.

Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:
Our Environment - you’ll go on research trips around your local area and community.
Health and Wellbeing - you’ll enjoy some lively discussions on how to keep yourself safe from different types of risk, and live a healthy lifestyle.
Working with Others - you’ll learn how to work successfully in a...

With PEZ Plus you’ll come into college 3 days a week, but sometimes you’ll learn at outside locations too. The main focus is getting to know the workplace, discovering the opportunities out there for you, and what you need to do to get there.

Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

You'll look at various types of jobs in different settings such as hospitals, schools, nurseries, gyms, hotels and care homes. You’ll find out about the skills you need for each, the expected pay, how to go about applying, getting an interview and...

The course gives you a great introduction to skin and body care, including treatments for hands and feet. You’ll also be encouraged to gain valuable work experience through helping with community and college events.

Here’s just some of the units you may study:
Facial Skincare - you’ll learn how to perform a basic routine including cleansing, toning, moisturising, eyebrow tweezing and applying a mask.
Make-Up: you’ll develop skills in basic and day, make-up, as well as learning corrective techniques, such as shading and hi-lighting, to enhance appearance.
Manicure - you’ll learn how to perform...

Students will complete a range of practical projects to increase their independence in life, learning, and work.

Topics covered include:
Investigating the workplace
Travel in the community
Enterprise activity
Completing a work placement

Students will complete a range of practical projects to increase their independence in life, learning, and work.

Topics covered may include:
Basic First Aid Skills
Budgeting your weekly bills and shopping
Being safe in your own home
Building Positive Relationships

Students will develop important skills such as working with others, solving problems, and being effective communicators to help them on their learning journey. Employability skills will be developed through projects allowing students to apply their learning to real-life situations.

Subjects may include:
Computer Basics
Internet Safety and Social Media
Photography
Healthy Eating
Survival Cookery
Money Management

This course focuses on helping students become more enterprising and independent in their learning, life and work. It helps them make the transition from school and become familiar with college life.

The emphasis is on practical skills, rather than academic progress (like Connect to Learning), and students will have a good level of choice within a supported environment.

Here’s just some of what students will be doing:
Learning basic life skills such as cookery, including how to be safe in the kitchen and healthy eating.
Learning how to manage their own...

These are two freestanding units and have been designed for candidates whose first language is not English but who needs to develop their ability to use English in a broad range of personal and social contexts.

While studying these units, candidates will develop their competence in the skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing in English for personal and social purposes.

This course is a mixture of developing practical skills in the garage workshop and learning the theory you’ll need for the motor industry

We’ll help you develop your skills for employment, such as working as part of a team and creating a CV to get you noticed.

You’ll be introduced to all vehicle-related systems, including engines, emissions, exhausts, electrical, brakes, fuel, starting, steering and suspension. You’ll get to know a vehicle inside and out, and learn how to perform a range of routine checks.

You’ll look at the effects of...