Report 2015-2016 Contents

ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 CONTENTS

Introduction 4 Our Curriculum 5 Our Students 13 Our Finances 15 Our Success Rates 17 Personal Successes 18 Our Community 21 Our Technology 23 Our Staff 23 Our Estate 25 Our Highlights 27 INTRODUCTION

It gives me great pleasure to The final example which I would like to highlight is introduce the College’s Annual report the recent Ofsted inspection of the college which took place in November 2016. The report said of us: for 2015/16. “Your leadership team and governors set high The year as usual has presented many challenges expectations for your learners and staff, with and opportunities for the college and I would like clear priorities to improve the quality of provision, to highlight three examples which characterize the develop the skills of teaching staff, improve the spirit of the college, its staff and learners. college estate and maintain a strong financial In December 2015, the college had to respond to position. the extraordinary circumstances of severe flooding “Governors have a good understanding of the in Rochdale Town Centre. Despite significant college’s key priorities and areas for improvement damage to the infrastructure of the Rochdale and provide challenge to you and your leadership campus, of the order of £1.5m, we recovered in a team.” short period of time thus allowing continuity and The highly positive inspection also highlighted that: minimal disruption for our learners. • Staff share an ambitious strategy to provide the Throughout 2015/16 the college was involved highest quality vocational provision which meets in the Greater Manchester Area Review of post the needs and is responsive to national priorities. 16 provision. We took this opportunity to raise Staff development is a key priority of the college. the profile of our local post 16 system, a highly performing, highly efficient system, with no • Ensuring high-quality teaching and learning is duplication or competition. A system which the highest priority and continues to be a strong demonstrates some of the highest Key Stage 5 focus of the college’s work. performances nationally. • Study programmes provide learners aged 16-19 Through this review we highlight Hopwood Hall with high quality work-related activities and College’s unparalleled record of collaborative purposeful work experience which link to their working both within Rochdale and across Greater longer-term employment aspirations. Manchester. We also reaffirm our commitment to • Teachers have high aspirations for their learners realising Greater Manchester’s skills ambitions in and use a variety of challenging and interesting tandem with an unwavering focus of delivering on activities to motivate them. Rochdale’s priorities. • The college works effectively with local businesses and other partners to ensure that the curriculum is current, supports learner’s employability prospects and provides opportunities for learners to progress to higher level technical skill programmes. • A wide range of enrichment activities help Derek O’Toole learners to develop their personal, social and Principal work skills. The strength and character of Hopwood Hall College starts with people; governors, staff and students and I thank you all for your contributions to our success in 2015/16.

4 In April 2015, Hopwood Hall College was named again as having the highest FE college success rates across Greater Manchester. To achieve this for a second year was a huge achievement and we continue to build on our reputation of innovation offering courses that meet learner demand. We are continuing to offer an expanding range of programmes from pre-entry to degree level for both full and part-time learners. Courses are delivered on both our college campuses and externally in community venues, local schools, professional football clubs and on employer premises. The key curriculum developments in 2015/16 were:

Apprenticeships Training@Hopwood manage all In 2015/16 over 255 work-based learning provision on apprenticeship jobs were created behalf of the College, including with around 130 apprentices apprenticeships, traineeships and successfully completing their other workforce development frameworks. programmes. Training@Hopwood is currently During the year the department working with around 200 has developed its customer local employers covering an base by establishing new extensive range of sectors. The apprenticeship frameworks new Employer Engagement and such as plumbing and, where Recruitment Team are working possible, growing other closely with all our partners and frameworks for example employers to continue to expand engineering. The ESF Skills our offer. Support for the Unemployed The Employer Satisfaction (SSU) programme has had a Study carried out by the Skills successful start with the team Funding Agency for 2016/17 delivering Level 1 accredited found that just under 80% of our qualifications in English, Maths, employers would recommend ESOL, Health & Social Care, our services to another Business Administration, Catering employer seeking similar training & Hospitality and Employability. because we understand their Around 90 learners from the organisation’s training needs. borough have successfully They also praised our quality progressed through this and the professionalism of our programme to date. delivery. Additionally it was also found that we offer our training in a flexible way and we are efficient and effective in our communication. OUR CURRICULUM

5 Arts & Performing Arts All Performing Arts students are now registered with an Art & Design students had a busy agency and many secured acting year which included a successful parts during 2015/16 which we exhibition at Touchstones Gallery hope will give them valuable and our Graphics students being experience and lead to further responsible for the redesign work in the future. of their café logo. Zain Zia’s design came out on top and Employer engagement and he attended the unveiling at an strong links to universities has event alongside the Mayor and enhanced the provision for Mayoress of Rochdale. Fashion & the HND Games Development Textiles students also took part and our Level 3 Creative Media in a fashion show at The Rock courses. Students also undertook shopping centre in Bury entitled a range of ‘live’ work related ‘Style your Summer’ which projects across Graphic Design, Business, Travel Art & Design, Fashion and Media featured in ‘This is Lancashire’ & Accounts online magazine. (Film & TV). Fashion & Textiles and Creative Media were both To improve employability skills Creative Media student Cary- placed in the top 3 at the Greater and meet individual learner’s Lee Walker won the BTEC Manchester Colleges Skills needs Level 3 business students Outstanding Student of the competition, with Performing ran a charity event for a young Year (see page 18 for more Arts winning the Level 2 Acting footballer, Ellis Robinson, on details) and the Performing Arts and Dance categories and Fine behalf of Rochdale Football club. students held a full programme Art winning their section. The event was a success with of successful shows culminating learners actively engaging with in a pantomime at the Hopwood all areas of event management. Theatre and the Rochdale Christmas lights switch on. Student Jack Morrison also secured a placement on the KPMG360 programme which is a highly sought after rotational apprenticeship programme (3 – 6 years) which will allow Jack to work around different areas of the organisation with the potential of leaving with ACA, CA, CTA OR CIMA professionally qualified status. Our Level 2 Business learners also undertook a two week voluntary placement in a national supermarket during the Easter break allowing them to put their classroom learning into practice in a real work environment.

Performing Arts Students

Jack Morrison with poet Lemn Sissay and Principal Derek O’Toole

6 Early Years and Health Hair and Beauty & Social Care Two students who recently The Early Years and Health & completed their Level 3 courses Social Care curriculum offers with us are now travelling the a comprehensive portfolio of world on cruise ships in the competence as well as theoretical On Board Spas by Steiner. Ella based programmes to meet the Danleme who studied Beauty needs of diverse learners, the Therapy and Chloe Williams who community, and local employers studied hairdressing, excelled ranging from Entry level to Level while gaining employability skills 5. through our own Riverside Salon and are now both working on The qualifications are offered luxurious Royal Caribbean cruise both full and part-time across ships across the globe. both our campuses. Our qualifications are offered by the awarding bodies CACHE, BTEC and City & Guilds and designed for learners who wish to undertake either an academic route or more practical study programme. The Early Years Educator qualification is delivered at both Level 2 and 3 and it will enable learners to access higher education or enter E-Learning the workforce as Early Years The e-Learning department Educators. compromises the LRC team, Within Health and Social Care e-Learning development team we are in the second year of and the VLE Coordinator. These delivering the Level 3 Dental three key areas provide a central Nursing qualification. The service to promote, support and qualification focuses on direct facilitate the college’s ambitious chair side work and support e-Learning strategy. during a range of dental The department has a significant treatments and is suitable for impact on several aspects of the anyone who wants to work as a learner experience including, dental nurse. induction, planning, resources alongside teaching, learning and assessment. The e-Learning department is firmly embedded within the college; providing direction to curriculum staff in the sourcing, development and delivery of engaging and interactive learning content.

Ella Danleme

7 Higher Education (HE) A team of two students also took part in the Regional Seafood During 2015/16, the College competition and won overall continued to offer courses best starter dish progressing in Games Design, Media, through to the National Seafood Engineering, Electrical competition where they dined at Installation, Sport and Early a Michelin starred restaurant. Years. Further pathways at Level 4 and 5 were explored and we are We purchased two new starting a new programme within chocolate machines for our our Life Sciences department as bakery & patisserie kitchen part of our strategy to grow the which produces goods for the higher education provision. commercial outlets. This gives us some of the best training The College received very facilities in Greater Manchester. positive feedback from the QAA We’ve also continued to develop reviewers during the successful our portfolio of qualifications in Higher Education quality review conjunction with industry experts which took place in June 2016. and our new Level 3 technical They acknowledged that the diplomas are awarded UCAS college has been on a significant points thus providing a direct journey since the previous route onto higher education. review and taken notable steps to develop a strategic approach to the enhancement of learning Information opportunities. Three areas of Communication good practice that enhance Technology student learning opportunities In 2015/16, to improve were identified, including employability skills and meet curriculum development of individual learner needs, students employability, staff development on our Level 3 programmes to gain new experience and worked on a live website project bring back best practice to the for a local charity called Rochdale college and engagement of Connections Trust. A new site industry employers in programme was developed and uploaded to development and delivery. Hospitality & Catering the web www.r-c-t.co.uk. In 2015 the Hospitality & Catering The knowledge gained gave department was awarded Gold students the vocational skills to from The Hospitality Guild and be successful in the workplace People 1st in recognition for its and has helped two students gain good practice and excellence an advanced apprenticeship in in the delivery of industry Software Engineering with the qualifications and training. BBC. Our involvement in cookery competitions continues apace. We successfully hosted the regional finals for the district Rotary Clubs for the second year running with a plan to make this an annual event. We also supported the annual Deckers’ cuisine supreme chef challenge, of which three of the five finalists were trained at Hopwood Hall and two were overall winners.

8 Life Sciences Higher Education at the end of Our Science students had visits their Level 3 programme, with from a number of specialised The Animal Care and Veterinary Nursing and Wildlife external organisations during Management provision continued and Conservation being popular 2015/16 to enhance their to grow in numbers and has choices. learning. benefitted from the introduction of a City and Guilds course at Horticulture has expanded with These included Manchester Level 2 to support practical a dynamic new member of University and the Royal learners into employment. The staff who is forging links with Society of Chemistry who ABC Level 2 Animal Nursing local organisations such as ran spectroscopy workshops, Assistant qualification was Incredible Edible and the Greater which is the study of the introduced and is now a popular Manchester Food Growing interaction between matter and choice for those wishing Group, and the curriculum has electromagnetic radiation. to progress into Veterinary developed to focus on current First year Applied Science Nursing. The introduction of a industry practices such as students enjoyed a day at local HND in Animal Management organic food production and chemical plant Quatchem to has provided a progression sustainable living. The area is understand the production of route for our Level 3 learners starting to grow and this year biochemical and laboratory who expressed an interest in saw the introduction of a Level 3 workings in industry. remaining at college at the end programme of study. of their programme of study. We had 19 learners progress into

9 Skills for Life Also in 2015/16, the Skills for Sport Life department introduced a In 2015/16 the Skills for Life Our full-time sports curriculum residential trip to the Calvert department introduced a in 2015/16 included Sports Trust in the Lake District. This new Supported Internship Studies, Sports Therapy and is an outdoor education centre programme. This programme Sports Science programmes which caters for learners with was designed to help learners with the option of playing an sensory, learning or physical develop their employability skills additional sport in one of our disabilities, including those by undertaking an extended academy teams. The college also with the most complex needs. work placement for two days delivered sport in the community This now means that all of our a week. Learners attended programmes at FC United of learners have the opportunity to placements at a range of Manchester, Manchester City and take part in enrichment activities settings, dependent on their Rochdale Football Club. during their time with us. needs and interests. These This year our Rugby Academy We also re-established our included The Craven Tea Room had a very successful season, links with the Canal and River at Springhill Hospice, Fox Denton winning the Elite Division, the Trust to provide opportunities Riding School, Oldham Cats, North West Colleges Cup and for our learners to carry out B&M, Wilkinson’s and B&Q. the National Cup in a thrilling volunteering work in the local Learners on this programme final against Wigan and Leigh community. also attended College one day College at the Crown Oil Arena, a week to work on their English Spotland. Three of our players, and Maths qualifications. The Lee Registe, Zac Hartley and programme was a great success Matty Ashton were also selected with over half of the cohort to represent England under 19 gaining paid employment at the squad. end of the programme. In addition, our Football Academy enjoyed another successful year with the first team undefeated during the entire season and winning their league. Our second team won the ECFANW Cat 3 league.

10 Sport in the The Technology Centre Uniformed Public Community The centre has continued to Services In 2015/16 our partnerships in the grow the numbers of students Our learners have been on community continued to flourish on its courses following the number of residential trips and grow, particularly the number introduction of programmes this year including two very of enrolments on our Manchester in Security Alarm Installation, successful ‘Army Look at Life’ City in the Community Plumbing, Plastering, Painting courses at Altcar Barracks in partnership. Our learners on and Decorating and Construction Southport, where selected these courses have been able to maintenance courses in 2014/15. groups of learners lived and take advantage of opportunities Four of our apprentices have trained like soldiers for 5 days to coach in the community and successfully secured jobs with and 4 nights. Another group volunteer at events which gives the college and we are seeing went to Lympstone, the home them vital experience for future previous students return to us of the Royal Marines, to conduct employability. We also had visits to undertake apprenticeship Royal Marine style training. from professionals in the industry programmes as they recognise Gemma Knight was the very who delivered enrichment the quality of teaching they had first female college student sessions on areas such as sports during their time here. We have to undertake the course and analysis and nutritional advice. also seen both our staff and she successfully completed Our Rochdale AFC partnership at students accepted onto degrees it too. Selected learners also the Crown Oil Arena at Spotland at universities. attended naval training base HMS is now well established and Collingwood for five days, with learners undertook their Level 1 some learners undertaking and football coaching badge which successfully passing the training enabled them to coach within package. Congratulations to Billy the community and develop Cloran, who scored 110 on his employability skills. naval entrance test, one of the highest in the country.

11 Future Curriculum Developments Hopwood Hall College aims to The college curriculum offer is In response to the introduction provide the widest range of high now aligned to the LEP priorities of 16-18 study programmes, quality education and training identified for Greater Manchester which include mandatory English to learners in the Borough of and has seen growth in learner and/or Maths for learners who Rochdale and beyond. We numbers in Health & Social Care, haven’t previously attained a continually strive to ensure Engineering & Manufacturing, GCSE grade C, the profile of the that all learners achieve their Education & Training and college’s curriculum offer has individual, educational and Business sector areas. This changed significantly over recent employment goals, whilst alignment is set to continue years, with a sharp increase in meeting the skills need of the as the college has a mature the number of English and Maths region. approach to business planning, qualifications being studied. The College acknowledges that involving staff from across the We’ve also just launched a ladies it is important to meet current organisation and a planning football programme with Jill employer demand for skills by cycle that encourages innovative Scott who plays for Manchester planning a curriculum that meets development of new products, City and the England National LEP priorities and the future skills mapping of progression team. pathways and aims to meet both needs of the regional economy A thorough review of the the Greater Manchester skills whilst making the college College’s Higher Education priorities of the future and the sustainable. In 2015/16 significant provision was carried out Higher ambition of the LEP. preparatory work was undertaken Education regulatory body the to ensure that the college is well To help sustain the continued Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) positioned financially to do this. development and improvement throughout 2016 and the final To keep up to date with the of the colleges’ vocational report highlighted a number of needs of the LEP, the College provision, major capital areas of best practice. investment has been made in use labour market intelligence extensively along with research the college estate. Most notably and data analysis conducted by the newly built Technology New Economy. Through this, the Centre at Middleton campus college has been able to re- which has paved the way for engineer its curriculum plan to innovative education and training offer a more sustainable model in engineering and construction including more advanced level sectors along with newly skills that meet both local and refurbished teaching spaces regional priorities, meet skills to deliver the cutting edge gaps and prepare learners of all skills required by employers. ages for the world of work. Our learners benefit greatly from these investments as they provide high-quality work related activities and purposeful work experience which link to their longer term employment aspirations.

12 Our Students

In 2015/16, 16-18 year olds made up the majority of our full-time learners. Significantly, many of our full- time adult learners are 19 year olds now in their third or fourth year at College. Often these are learners who have left school with few GCSEs but have progressed through the levels at Hopwood Hall. The majority of our provision is in the ‘Centre for Lifelong Learning’ which includes qualifications in work and employability skills, literacy, numeracy and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).

Student Numbers (funded from all sources) Full-time Part-time 16-18 Year Olds 2721 14-16 Year Olds 248 19+ FE 1107 16-18 Year Olds 339 19+ HE 75 19+ FE 5146 19+ HE 72 Students by Gender FT PT Total Male 58% 44% 49% Female 42% 56% 51%

Students from ethnic minority groups The proportion of students from ethnic minority groups was 28% compared to the latest published average of 16.5%1 for the population of Rochdale 1. Data from Borough profile for 2011

Students with learning difficulties and disabilities The total number of students with learning difficulties or disabilities was 1879 (678 full-time and 1201 part- time).

13 Student qualification by subject

Business, Administration and Law 2% Level 4+ Pre Entry and Health, Public Services and Care 2.3% Entry Level 10.6% 14.3% Level 3 14.1%

Preparation for Science and Life and Work Mathematics 26.9% 10.9

Agriculture, Horticulture Level 1 and Animal Care STUDENT 2.8 STUDENT 18.9% QUALIFICATION QUALIFICATION Engineering and BY SUBJECT Manufacturing Technologies BY LEVEL 4.9% Education

and Training Construction, Planning and 31. 2.5% the Built Environment 7% 4.4%

Languages, Information and Literature and Culture Communication Technology 10.3% 1.8%

Level 2 Retail and Commercial Enterprise Leisure, Travel and Tourism 15.4% 50.4% 5.1%

Arts, Media and Publishing 0% History, Philosophy and Theology 0.1% Social Sciences 2.2%

Student qualification by level Business, Administration and Law 2% Level 4+ Pre Entry and Yes Health, Public Services and Care 2.3% Entry Level 5% 10.6% 14.3% Level 3 Prefer not 14.1% to say 10%

Preparation for Science and Life and Work Mathematics Male 26.9% 10.9 41%

Agriculture, Horticulture Level 1 STUDENT and Animal Care STUDENT 2.8 18.9% QUALIFICATION QUALIFICATION EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES BY SUBJECT Engineering and BY LEVEL Manufacturing Technologies - GENDER - DISABILITY 4.9% Education and Training Construction, Planning and 31. Female 2.5% the Built Environment 7% 4.4% 59% No Languages, Information and 85% Literature and Culture Communication Technology 10.3% 1.8%

Level 2 Retail and Commercial Enterprise Leisure, Travel and Tourism 15.4% 50.4% 5.1%

Arts, Media and Publishing 0% 14 History, Philosophy and Theology 0.1% Social Sciences 2.2%

Yes 5%

Prefer not to say 10%

Asian or Black or Mixed Male Asian British Black British 2% 41% 5% 1%

Not stated 7%

EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEESOther Ethnic Groups - GENDER -1% DISABILITY

Female 59% EMPLOYEES No - ETHNICITY 85%

White 84%

Asian or Black or Mixed Asian British Black British 2% 5% 1%

Not stated 7%

Other Ethnic Groups 1%

EMPLOYEES - ETHNICITY

White 84% OUR FINANCES

The College’s financial health remains strong and has again been confirmed as ‘Outstanding’ by the Skills Funding Agency. In its first year of reporting under the FRS102 international standards and new FE HE Sorp, the College achieved a £596,000 (2.57%) operating surplus in 2015/16. It continues to drive forward efficiency and productivity improvements, reducing costs and establishing new staffing structures in response to changing funding priorities. Consequently, the College remains profitable and is generating sufficient cash to invest in our staff, students and estate.

Income and Expenditure Account For Year Ended 31 July 2016: 2015 2016 £’000 £’000

Funding body income 19,809 19,830 Tuition fees and education contracts 1,776 1,772 Other grants and contracts 68 15 Other income 1,099 1,040 Investment income 819 799 Total income 23,571 23,456

Expenditure Staff costs 13,488 13,151 Exceptional restructuring costs 238 116 Other operating expenses 5,962 4,975 Depreciation 3,051 3,160 Interest and other finance costs 1,559 1,458 Total expenditure 24,298 22,860

Surplus on continuing operations prior (727) 596 to property strategy costs (3.1%) 2.5% Loss on disposal of assets 0 0 Surplus for the year retained within general reserves (727) 596

15 Balance Sheet With over £5.4m in the bank, the College has ample resources to continue its investment in the estate so that all students can have outstanding facilities and resources. The College continues to invest in outstanding learning spaces to support curriculum developments including dedicated workshop space for Technology and Construction; investment in Sports Science at the Middleton Campus and a new refurbished base for Games Development at Rochdale Campus.

Balance sheets as At 31 July 2016 2015 2016 £’000 £’000 Fixed assets 33,448 32,416

Current assets Stocks 37 42 Debtors 412 643 Cash at bank and in hand 3,763 5,409 Total current assets 4,212 6,094

Creditors – amounts falling due within one year (3,150) (3,291)

Net current assets 1,062 2,803 Current ratio 1.3 1.9

Total assets less current liabilities 34,510 35,219 Creditors – amounts falling due after more than one year (7,246) (6,933) Net pension liability (8,934) (10,922)

Net assets including pension liability 18,330 17364

Reserves Income and expenditure account 12,826 12,014 Revaluation reserve 5,504 5,350

Total reserves 18,330 17,364

16 OUR SUCCESS RATES

Headline Success Rate 2015/16 Overall course success rate 84.7% 16-18 80.9% 19+ 89.8% Apprenticeships 61.4%

Our learners said: In 2015/16 our learners survey results showed: • 90.4% said the information, advice and guidance they had received about future options had been helpful • 86.61% said the teaching on the course has been excellent • 82.44% said their course is well planned and organised • 90.43% said they found lessons enjoyable and challenging

Student achievements: 2015/16 2014/15 2013/14 National HHC HHC HHC % Long level 3 vocational 95% 96% 96% 91% Long level 2 vocational 96% 98% 96% 92% Long level 1 vocational 95% 97% 96% 93%

17 PERSONAL SUCCESSES

A number of our students excel on their courses at Hopwood Hall. Here are just a few of their stories.

Art & Design Apprenticeships Cary-Lee is a real success story Tim Whitaker started on a Level 2 having started at Hopwood Hall with Sports Apprenticeship, completing few GCSEs and lacking confidence in all his NVQ & Functional Skills with us her abilities. before progressing onto Level 3. Having achieved Distinctions for her HND in He also obtained various coaching skills and Creative Media Production and passing her GCSE qualifications with us including Metabolic Effect, Maths and English, Cary-Lee has worked tirelessly Circuit Training, Metafit, Suspension Training to get as much out of her time at Hopwood Hall and Football Coaching with specific delivery in College as possible. disability coaching. All this was achieved in addition Keen to pursue a career in Games Development, to his Personal Trainer Award over and above his Cary-Lee was the team leader for the HND game main qualification. Our apprenticeship programmes Primate Planet, which was a live brief run by the are really robust and enable apprentices based at creator of Angry Birds, and also published one of the Sports Arena to be involved in all manner of her completed games on Google Play. activities and additional qualifications. She also won several awards during her time at On completion of his Level 3 apprenticeship, Tim college including College Student of the Year and secured a full-time job as a Teaching Assistant at FE Student of the Year and in 2016 she was named Holden Clough Primary School, working with the the National Outstanding BTEC Media Student of PE department. the Year at an event at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London.

Tim Whitaker

L-R: Tutor Alex Dobson, Cary-Lee Walker, proud dad Gary Walker and Student Support Tutor Eloise Dale

18 Omid Hussini with Principal Derek O’Toole Sport 16 year old James Farmer from Middleton was selected for the England Under 19s Cerebral Palsy Football Team in early 2016. James, who is studying for a Diploma in Sport at Hopwood Hall College, has physical mobility difficulties due to cerebral palsy but has never let this hold him back. Since 2013 he has had a regular place on the Manchester City Cerebral Palsy team who will be playing in Switzerland in 2017 and he was recently made captain. And now, through hard work, training and a big dose of determination, Higher Education he’s managed to get on to the England Under 19s Cerebral Among our graduates this year was 21 year old Palsy squad. Omid Hussini from Bury, who had completed a Tariq Mazharuddin, who is a Foundation Degree in Sport Development. Learning Support Assistant Omid arrived as an asylum seeker aged just 14 and initially studied at the College, said: “He is an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course before a determined and talented moving on Level 1, 2 and 3 sport courses. young man who also supports When he first enrolled, a member of the admission’s staff at the other learners with his great College, Katherine Wilkes, actually went to the Home Office to help experience.” get his paperwork sorted, so he could join the ESOL course. Katherine said: “Omid has progressed from hardly speaking English at all to gaining a Foundation Degree in just 7 years. He’s an inspiration!”

James Farmer

19 Gemma Knight

Uniformed Public Services 18 year old Gemma from Oldham, not only impressed the Royal Marines training staff, but also Gemma Knight and Natasha Hopkins, the Commanding Officer, when she beat all the were invited to attend the Royal males in the Royal Marines sit-up test and scored Marine Commando Training Centre at higher than the majority of males from the other Colleges. Gemma’s brother Chris, who is now a Lympstone, Devon, and made history Royal Marine and also an ex Hopwood Hall College by becoming the only two females to student, said how proud he was of her. He hopes that she achieves her career goal to become an ever take part in the gruelling five- elite Royal Navy Diver after finishing the course. day ‘Life as a Royal Marine’ course. College staff members Tom Kellaway and Holly Espie said how proud they were of all the students and how they all performed to such a high standard, achieving enough points to start careers in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

20 OUR COMMUNITY

Student Support At Hopwood Hall College, we develop a safe and inclusive environment where the needs of learners are appropriately identified and supported to assist them to meet their full potential.

During 2015/16: • Take up of the college counselling service • Student Support Tutors focused on delivering increased with 109 learners receiving counselling the college tutorial programme as part of every which has had a positive impact on learners learner’s study programme. They supported the staying on programme with a 95.4% retention development of learners, including their personal, rate for learners accessing the service. social and employability skills, and monitored • We successfully continued with a range of learner academic progress. engagement and enrichment programmes • The tutorial programme had a specific focus on including charity events, sport activity through safeguarding, bullying, extremism, promoting the college Sports Maker, focus week activities British Values and developing Social, Moral, and Learner Voice and Parental Engagement Spiritual and Cultural skills. session for our learners with disabilities and learning difficulties. • The Student Support Team worked with a range of disadvantaged learners to ensure they met • The college made significant advances in their learning outcomes. The team tracked and implementing the Prevent duty. 87.1% of students monitored progress and ensured that appropriate said they felt safe in college and 90% said they interventions and challenging targets were put had been introduced to British Values and in place. They were also ranked top across all Prevent through their tutorials. college service areas for 2016. • The team delivered Safeguarding and Prevent • The College supported 62 Looked-After Children, training sessions to all college staff members, 77 safeguarded learners, 11 young carers and governors, student ambassadors and volunteers. 7 young parents to successfully achieve their 100% said they had received training and knew college programme. who to report a concern to. 97.7% of staff said understood their responsibilities with regards to • The Learning Support Team provided in and safeguarding and Prevent. out of class support for learners with learning difficulties and disabilities. Within the team we supported 51 High Needs Learners and supported 93 learners with their Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).

21 Learner Engagement Equality and Diversity At Hopwood Hall College, we value what our The College welcomes and celebrates equality and students have to say and welcome feedback to diversity and strives to ensure that everyone is help shape the future of the College. During the treated with respect and dignity. The College has in year, our learners have again been involved in a place a Single Equality Scheme with six challenging number of activities and projects that have shaped strategic objectives which are monitored and and improved the learner voice at Hopwood Hall. reported to the College’s Equality and Diversity In 2015/16, we have: Steering Group. • Delivered a range of learner voice activities Staff and student feedback showed that 98.2% of including themed focus weeks, Question of the staff stated they understood and supported the Week, Principal’s Question Time and enrichment. colleges’ vision for equality and diversity and 97.6% said that they understood their role in promoting • Continued to extend our enrichment offer to equality, tacking bullying, discrimination and include new and exciting opportunities for harassment. 91.6% of learners said that equality students to get involved in whilst at college. and diversity was promoted in their lessons with The College Sports Maker has attended group 94.4% saying that the college provides a suitable tutorials, successfully engaged students and environment for people with disabilities. developed a range of sporting activities for them to take up. The college participated in a benchmarking exercise with other FE colleges and our employees • Involved the Student Ambassadors and Student rated equality of opportunity being embedded into Governors in various college activities for the culture of the college. Hopwood Hall College example One World Week, NUS event, college ranked 1st place out of 50 FE College with a meetings, annual review, charity events and satisfaction rate of 97%. student disciplinary meetings.

22 OUR Our Staff TECHNOLOGY During 2015/16 the College employed 519 people on a variety of contracts. IT Infrastructure The average full-time equivalent headcount was The IT Services team continue to develop their 356 with salaries of £13m equating to 56% of our customer focus and have implemented a number of overall expenditure. processes aimed at providing the highest standard During the year we also: of IT provision at Hopwood Hall College. • Invested £80k to deliver 148 development events Key projects included: as part of the College Training and Development • Enhancement of College wireless internet service Plan. These included 30 role relevant sponsored at Middleton campus. qualifications. The internal delivery of mandatory staff training was delivered through e-Learning. • Hyper-virtualisation of all key services to provide a more flexible environment with increased • Continued the learner employability scheme performance and reduced cost of operations. providing work placements for 21 learners within the College. This included coaching on • Implementation of Disaster Recovery solution to application, CV writing and job interviews, one provide improved resilience to core services. of these learners has progressed to become a • Investment in 250 new Dell Wyse thin clients college employed Apprentice. across both campuses and 60 new high- • Continued to deliver the College Apprenticeship performance PCs installed in the Technology Scheme employing 22 Apprentices in 2015/16; Centre as part of annual College replacement 5% of the workforce. Four of our apprentices cycle. completed their apprenticeship programme • Relocation of the Games Design suite at and secured jobs within the college, six have Rochdale campus which is now equipped with benefitted from their apprenticeship in securing high-end technology. roles externally, for example the Quality Apprentice secured a full time role at Tetrosyl in e-Learning Rochdale as a Marketing Assistant. During 2015/16, the e-Learning department worked • Continued to focus on high performance collaboratively with Quality and Student Support to by delivering two Teaching and Learning develop a cross college programme to build learner conferences and a dual site “Teaching and employability skills. This involved the development Learning Marketplace” for all teaching, learning team creating a system by which learners and assessment employees. completed end tests linked to each employability • Delivered a Business Support Conference skill in order to collect digital badges. focussed on team performance. This was a significant and successful project that • Received continued positive feedback from the provided the basis for the Employability iLearn annual employee survey and compared very well delivery in place for 16/17. As a result of this, the against other FE colleges in an employee survey college was awarded the Itslearning e-learning benchmarking exercise. Centre of Excellence in recognition of the effective • Delivered a comprehensive College Health and use of the Itslearning platform. Wellbeing Plan focusing on improving the health of employees and learners including a full college employee health and wellbeing and activity day in July. • Completed the full cycle of the Performance Management System linked to the performance related bonus. 93% of employees in 2015/16, who were in the performance review cycle, were graded as good or outstanding and have received a performance-related bonus.

23 Business, Administration and Law 2% Level 4+ Pre Entry and Health, Public Services and Care 2.3% Entry Level 10.6% 14.3% Level 3 14.1% Business, Administration and Law Preparation for Science and Mathematics Life and Work 2% Level 4+ Pre Entry and 26.9% Health, Public 10.9 Services and Care 2.3% Entry Level 10.6% 14.3% Level 3 14.1% Agriculture, Horticulture Level 1 and Animal Care STUDENT 2.8 STUDENT 18.9% Preparation for QUALIFICATION Science and QUALIFICATION Mathematics Life and Work BY SUBJECT Engineering and BY LEVEL 26.9% 10.9 Manufacturing Technologies 4.9% Education

and Training Construction, Planning and 31. 2.5% the Built Environment 7% Agriculture, Horticulture Level 1 and4.4% Animal Care STUDENT 2.8 STUDENT 18.9% Languages, QUALIFICATION Information and QUALIFICATION Literature and Culture BY SUBJECT EngineeringCommunication and Technology BY LEVEL 10.3% Manufacturing1.8% Technologies 4.9% Education Level 2 and Training Retail and Commercial Construction, Enterprise Planning and 31. Business, Leisure, Travel the Built Environment 2.5% 15.4% 7% 50.4% Administration and Tourism 4.4% and Law 5.1% 2% Level 4+ Languages, Information and Pre Entry and Health, Public Literature and Culture Communication Technology2.3% Entry Level Services and Care Arts,10.3% Media and Publishing 10.6% 0% 1.8% 14.3% History, Philosophy and Theology Level 3 Level 2 0.1% Retail and14.1% Commercial Enterprise Social Sciences Leisure, Travel 15.4% 50.4% 2.2% and Tourism Preparation for Science and 5.1% Life and Work Mathematics 10.9 26.9% Arts, Media and Publishing 0% History, Philosophy and Theology 0.1% Agriculture, Horticulture Level 1 Social Sciences and Animal Care STUDENT 2.8 STUDENT 18.9% QUALIFICATION 2.2% QUALIFICATION Engineering and BY SUBJECT Manufacturing Technologies BY LEVEL 4.9% Yes Education 5% and Training Construction, Planning and 31. 2.5% the Built Environment 7% Prefer not 4.4% to say 10% Languages, Information and Literature and Culture Communication Technology 10.3% Male 1.8% Yes 41% 5% Level 2 Retail and Commercial Enterprise Leisure, Travel and Tourism 15.4% Demographic50.4% of the 519 staffPrefer not to say 5.1% 10% employed by the college Arts, Media and Publishing EMPLOYEES Male during 2015/16 EMPLOYEES 0% - GENDER - DISABILITY History, Philosophy and Theology 41% 0.1% Social Sciences Female 2.2% 59% No 85% EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES - GENDER - DISABILITY

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Our Estate As a result, the start of term in January 2016 at the Rochdale campus was put back by one week so that a thorough clean could be undertaken, the heating and water restored and allow adequate Rochdale Campus time to rebuild/recover IT systems. Staff coped In December 2015, the College suffered significant extremely well with the extreme challenges, many damage following the floods on Boxing Day that of whom many were on site over the holiday completely devastated the centre of Rochdale period. Final works will be complete in early 2017 and many other parts of the north of England. Our with the total cost exceeding £1million for repairs proximity to the River Roch inevitably meant that and replacement equipment. we were affected but we have never experienced The flood repairs included additional investment anything on this scale before. from the College in order to relocate and improve There was no electrical power to the entire the IT server room, relocate the personal care Rochdale Campus for 5 days, the undercroft was room and refurbish the basement space into a completely submerged in water, up to 5ft in places, high quality training facility to support commercial and the contaminated water flowed through the activity and diversify the income base of the new personal care room, into classrooms, the College. A project is also underway to invest in archive store and sadly the crèche, which had to flood defences to protect the College and mitigate relocate into temporary accommodation in the car the risk of flood damage in the future. park for over six months.

25 Middleton Campus The IT infrastructure was also improved to support the College’s improved business The flagship project for Summer 2016 was the continuity programme along with an upgrade of redevelopment of the refectory and social space at the CCTV system. A planned rolling programme the Middleton campus. This included relocating and of “washroom” replacement/upgrades was also completely redesigning the social areas to create a initiated across both campuses. space that is bright, multi- functional and larger to accommodate more students. The refectory had a complete update with new counters that allow for four serving stations, flooring and furniture. A new roof was also installed on Healey building over the summer as it had reached the end of its useful life. Across college, we continue with our commitment to invest in the estate and resources to transform student spaces and create a 21st century college. £1million was invested in new IT kit with the planned replacement of hardware in classrooms and Learning Resource Centre.

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January 2016 May 2016 We’re third in the country for value added at Key Rugby Team wins the National Colleges Cup Stage 5 Hopwood Hall College’s Rugby Academy team For the first time in three years, Hopwood Hall added more silverware to its trophy cabinet in May College’s performance for vocational value added 2016 by winning the National Colleges Cup against was well above the national average and this Wigan & Leigh College. Hopwood Hall started achievement put us in the top three of all colleges strongly, with impressive tries from Zac Hartley, in the country for the achievement of vocational Ciaran Dean and Liam Riley enabling the team to learning at Key Stage 5. The Department for take an early lead. But at 80 minutes, Wigan & Education publish performance tables on an Leigh had fought back and the score was tied at 34 annual basis as a mechanism for publicising and each leading to a tense extra-time. With the golden comparing the performance of schools at Key point rule in place, Hopwood Hall College broke Stages 2 and 4, and the performance of schools through first to take the point and seal the win. and colleges at Key Stage 5. Matt Calland, Rugby Academy Manager and Coach, The performance tables analyse the 2014/15 said, “It’s a fantastic achievement to become the performance of Year 12 and 13 learners (i.e. those best Rugby League College in the country. It was aged 17 and 18) entered on Level 3 qualifications in a great game, and Wigan & Leigh College put up a the given academic year. strong performance to ensure it went to the wire. We’re all incredibly proud of the lads.”

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27 July 2016 August 2016 Three Peaks conquered for charity Ryan is the first apprentice to receive Chief Ten Hopwood Hall College employees completed Constable’s commendation the National Three Peaks Challenge in July, raising Ryan Orme, who studied Uniformed Public over £1,500 for Springhill Hospice. Services at Hopwood Hall, became the first Police The Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing the apprentice to receive a commendation from three highest peaks in England, Wales and Scotland Greater Manchester Police’s Chief Constable. He within 24 hours. The College team, who set out at was nominated for his work supporting the team 5pm on Saturday, climbed the highest mountains tackling modern slavery. in Scotland, England and Wales - Ben Nevis, Scafell Working as an admin support apprentice, Ryan Pike and Snowdon – in an impressive 23 hours and maintained the National Modern Slavery Tracker, 44 minutes. helping to keep an accurate record of the number “It was such a gruelling challenge, both physically of modern slavery crimes reported across Greater and mentally,” said Caroline Street, Executive Manchester. Director “but we achieved it as a team and now feel Ryan, who is from Stalybridge, studied at Hopwood on top of the World!” Hall College for four years before securing his apprenticeship in Greater Manchester Police’s Modern Slavery Unit. He also recently became a Special Constable and now serves the community of Oldham. On his award, Ryan remarked: “I’m really proud to have been recognised for my contribution to the Modern Slavery Unit and in helping save victims from this horrendous crime.”

The three peaks team at the start of the challenge

Ryan Orme receiving his award from Chief Constable Ian Hopkins

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