Weekly Update
Directorate: Skills, Support and Standards - June 15th 2015
Croeso! Welcome to our weekly directorate update of news and information.
There's just four weeks of this academic term left. Have you booked onto CPD for July and August? If not, click on to the Passport to Success icon on your desktop (username and password as for EBS) and have a look at the courses on offer...
Also, this week the new management structure 2015-2016 will be out on the intranet.
Have a great week!
We won again! Well done to the Basic Skills Team and Success at the NIACE Awards
Four of the twelve learners who won NIACE Adult Learner awards this year were learners at Coleg Cambria. A tremendous achievement for our adult community learning tutors. Well done all, and to Amanda Morgan and Kevern Kerswell for collating the stories and submitting the entries.
Promonitor
Now's the time to get up to date with how Promonitor works. Go into it (using your EBS username and password), search for groups and students, have a play. In September we will be using this for:
- setting targets, including literacy and numeracy following BKSB assessments
- concerns and comments about learners to send to other tutors
- record of absences and attendance
- recording one to one meetings
- UCAS references
- parent reports
- recording additional learning needs that tutors need to know about
Confidential notes will stay on EBS.
Promonitor brings learning together for learners and tutors. It also enables personalised learning, which is about learners developing their own individual skills at their own pace via effective target setting, which enables them to understand what they need to do next to improve. Estyn will be very keen to see how we're doing this, and we need to be embedding this consistently across all learning, including all English and Maths classes.
If you need help using Promonitor, ask your Deputy Director/ Manager to arrange a training session.
New UCAS Process
Induction September 2015
- Thursday September 3rd - all Level 3s
- Friday September 4th - all Level 2 and below
Inductions will be one day sessions, focussing on getting to know learners, developing their aspiration about where their course could lead them and settling them into College. Only AS Level learners will do a two day induction, with the Friday given over to BKSB assessments.
Induction Arrangements for Full Time Learners 2015-2016
Initial assessments will be BKSB (not WEST) for September and these will take place in Maths and English classes for those undertaking them, and in vocational classes where there is no set Maths or English class planned in.
Team Updates
Quality Team Update
Next year we will be inspected, so the hard work of Clwyd Jones, Quality Manager, and his team of analysts and data developers is greatly appreciated!
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Carys Davies
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