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Hopwood Hall College Beauty Therapy RIVER Pre-Enrolment SIDE RESTAURANT RIVER SIDE SALON RIVERFollow Us: @riversidesalon theriversidesalon Riverside Salon SIDE SALON Success is closer than you think RIVER www.hopwood.ac.ukSIDE RESTAURANT Hopwood Hall College I Rochdale Road Middleton I M24 6XH www.hopwood.ac.uk t. 0161 643 7560 e. [email protected] Preparing for College: A message from the Principal: Thank you for applying to study at Hopwood Hall College. We look forward to welcoming you soon. We want to help make Our Vision: sure that you are as well prepared as possible so that you feel at home here from day one. Bringing out We understand that the transition from Don’t worry if you get stuck on anything, school to college can be daunting but just try to complete as much as you can. In there’s no need to worry! We have plenty the meantime, if you have any questions, of pre-enrolment activities which will help please contact our Student and College the best in you! to prepare you and make your transition as Services Team on 0161 643 7560 who will smooth as possible. be happy to help. Before you join the College in September, I look forward to welcoming you to your we want you to begin to develop your college very soon. skills. We have brought together some subject-specific information, signposting to helpful reading and relevant websites Julia Heap Our Values and some activities for you to complete. Principal and Chief Executive ENJOYMENT INTEGRITYSUSTAINABILITY NURTURE ENJOYMENT INTEGRITY AMBITION SUSTAINABILITY NURTURE ENJOYMENT INTEGRITY AMBITION AMBITION SUSTAINABILITY NURTURINGNURTURE ENJOYMENT INTEGRITY AMBITION SUSTAINABILITY NURTURE ENJOYMENT INTEGRITY AMBITION SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY NURTURE ENJOYMENT INTEGRITY AMBITION 4 Introduction Staff Bios Career history When I left college, I opened my own Here are our amazing staff who will be Welcome to Beauty Therapy at Hopwood Hall College. We pride salon in a gym and became self-employed helping you through your qualification. ourselves in having high standards in our department. As part of for 18 months. The gym closed so I then went on to work in several hair and beauty your course you will learn lots of different skills and techniques to Zoe salons in the Rochdale area for about eight help you build a fantastic career in the industry. Staniczenko years. I loved my job and the fact that I Programme Manager could make my clients feel happier and This work pack will give you an idea of some of the topics you can expect to learn whilst better about themselves made me more Fact 1 - When I was at you are studying with us. The pack will give you a head start when you begin your passionate about the industry I still work in school I wanted to be studies with us in September. today. My favourite treatments in the salon in the army, and I did were facials and waxing. We look forward to meeting you in September and helping you in your career path into my work experience our industry. at an army airfield I then decided to train as a teacher at working on helicopters. I stayed there Manchester University and I completed my Students’ work for the week and really enjoyed the teaching placement at Oldham College. I The Riverside Salon experience but soon realised I didn’t like then continued to work there for the next At the Riverside we are extremely proud Welcome to the Riverside Hair, Beauty getting my hands dirty as it chipped seventeen years, teaching Beauty Therapy of our students’ work, we regularly post and Make-up salon. This is Hopwood Hall my nail polish and I wouldn’t be able to to level one, two and three students. pictures and videos on social media, just Colleges fully functioning and commercial wear make-up for work which was also a Whilst teaching, I continued to learn and showing how amazing you all are. There salon, that is open to the general public. passion of mine. went back to college a few times to learn This is where you as students will will be lots of experiences where you can new treatments such as semi-permanent Fact 2 - I trained as a student at Hopwood complete practical sessions each week. show your creative side. We fully promote make-up and barbering. Hall College in 1995- 1997 and studied These sessions will consist of lots of fun Equality and Diversity in our salon and NVQ Level Two and Level Three Beauty I then got the opportunity to work and interactive work. Providing treatments celebrate differentiation, we understand Therapy. I returned to HHC in October at Hopwood Hall and to manage the for clients, reception duties and practical that in this industry it’s important for you 2019 as I got the position of Programme department I trained in. I am so happy assessments. to show who you are through your work to have been able to return to the place and creativity. Manager in Hair and Beauty as the tutor We use the latest products and equipment, who taught me retired. It was fantastic where I started my journey as a beauty Finally, we look forward to meeting you and encourage knowledge of the brands to come back where I started my training therapist and to pass on my skills, all in September, as you embark on this and current techniques. You will have a twenty-five years ago and to take over the knowledge and experience to all our amazing course. chance to take part in product education, person that taught me my skills to become students in Hair and Beauty. guest speakers and lots of really a beauty therapist. Some of my previous students have gone interesting extra activities. Continuously Fact 3 – Making mistakes is all part of on to open their own successful salons, developing employability skills. learning. One of the biggest mistakes I one even opened her own laser clinic, made whilst working in a salon was that others have gone onto cruise ships and RIVER I accidently dropped a lash tinting brush, spas. But what is really nice to see are the with black lash tint on, onto my client’s ones that have followed the same path as blonde hair! After the treatment I had to me and have gone into teaching. Today, I SIDE tell her she had a black patch on her hair am really proud to work alongside two of RESTAURANT which will eventually wash out in about my former students here at Hopwood Hall four weeks! After that I always thought College. about the positioning of my brush so it didn’t happen again. RIVER SIDE SALON 5 6 RIVER SIDE SALON RIVER SIDE RESTAURANT Becki Shaw When I became qualified I got a job Clare Jacquie working at Stockport Heaton Moor College Beauty Therapy Tutor where I was the lead tutor for Level 2 Thompson Brockett Fact One – I always Beauty Therapy. Soon I received an offer Beauty Therapy Tutor Salon Instructor wanted to be a to work for Hopwood Hall College. This and Salon Instructor Fact One - I was teacher but my was my chance to go back to where it had Fact One - I enrolled thrown out of all downfall was all started and I couldn’t be happier. to do childcare at my exams in high my spelling and I became a full time lecturer for Hopwood college from school school because I grammar. I decided Hall College. I have been the subject tutor and when I was there became a bit of a to do something for Level One, Two and Three Beauty on my open day my mum persuaded me naughty student in my last year, and it creative and chose to study at Hopwood Therapy as well as Level Two and Three to go and look at the beauty department took some convincing for the school to Hall College. Here I completed me BTEC Media Make Up. I have taught Functional as I was always painting her nails, allow me to sit them. I left school at 15 as National Diploma in Beauty Therapy. Skills English and Maths alongside our begrudgingly I went and looked round and my 16th birthday wasn’t until August. My Fact Two – While studying at the college I vocational courses. I have been working instantly fell in love with the vibe I got and first full time job was folding dishcloths at lived in the Seven Sisters (Rochdale Town for the college now for over 10 years in this that was it bye bye changing dirty nappies Minky’s where I was on peace work which Flats) and worked in a local nightclub time I have had many experiences. I have and hello pampering clients. meant I got paid for how many dishcloths called Nemis. been privileged to win a number of awards Fact Two - Twelve years in industry and I packed. I had no idea what I wanted to Fact Three - I became senior therapist and including Best Use of Its learning and Staff two babies later I found myself wanting do with my life at this point except I knew worked my way up to assistant manager Member of The Year. I have taken on a to help others find the passion in beauty I wanted to start earning money so I could in a prestigious spa in Manchester city number of roles in teaching and coaching that I had found, so went off to gain my leave home. I left home at seventeen and centre.