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YOUR GUIDE TO ONLINE ENROLMENT AT PRESTON’S COLLEGE

THE BEST PERFORMING COLLEGE IN CENTRAL LANCASHIRE CONTENTS Enrolment WELCOME TO ENROLMENT – Step by Step...... 4-5 Campus Map...... 6-7 On receipt and activation of your personal Bursary...... 8 PRESTON’S COLLEGE enrolment account, you will able to start your enrolment process, and this will allow Bus Information Despite these restrictive times, us to confirm your grades and determine the – how to get here...... 9-11 Preston’s College is continually correct level of programme to enrol you onto. Code of Conduct...... 12 committed to providing you with an You will be able to upload your results on any ID Badges...... 13 outstanding educational experience of the dates below and we will have a range by delivering high quality teaching of staff on hand to support you on these days Learner Support (SEND)...... 14 and learning in order that you if needed. succeed on your chosen course. Work Experience...... 15 • GCSE Results Day As a new learner at Preston’s College Frequently Asked – Thursday 12th August, 9am-7pm we want to make sure that you get the • Friday 13th August, 9am-5pm Questions...... 16-17 best start and this guide will help you College News...... 18-19 to prepare for the online enrolment • Saturday 14th August, 9am-1pm process and make it as smooth as • Monday 16th August, 9am-5pm Term Dates...... 20 possible. In this guide you’ll find • Tuesday 17th August, 9am-5pm details on how to apply for a bursary online, information on buses, as well If you are unable to enrol online on any of the dates given, or do not have as answers to some of our most Internet access please email [email protected] or call 01772 225774 and frequently asked questions. we will look at an alternative way of enrolling you. On GCSE results day, Thursday 12th to carry out some processes before August, we will be enrolling you As part of your virtual enrolment process you will need: the 12th August, such as how to remotely. You will have received your apply for your bursary, bus routes • Your GCSE results to upload these to our enrolment portal. link to your enrolment account via and information, and also how to • If applying for bursary you will need your own bank account and evidence of email. If you are unable to upload your update your personal details. Whilst household income to support your bursary application. GCSE results please see the page enrolment this year will be remote, we opposite for additional information will still have on hand careers advisors on how we can enrol you. After WHAT CAN I DO BEFORE ENROLMENT? and curriculum tutors who can help completing the enrolment process, you Bursary Applications Check Bus Information you with your next steps. Please be will receive your learner ID badge and If you are applying for a bursary, you Take a look at our guide to the bus assured that we will do everything to details of your induction programme. don’t need to wait until enrolment! You ensure you are ready for starting life at services on pages 9, 10 and 11. On the page opposite you will find can apply now by visiting Preston’s College. www.preston. a checklist covering what you need ac.uk/bursary You’ll need to submit Questions on hand to enable you to complete I am delighted that you have chosen recent evidence of your household If you have any questions about your enrolment process. To make Preston’s College and look forward to income. If you need any support to enrolment or the information in this your enrolment as smooth as possible welcoming you to the College. complete your application please call guide call us on 01772 225774. this guide contains pre enrolment Student Services on 01772 225656 or Simon Nixon information which will enable you email [email protected]. Interim Principal & Chief Executive Bursary available for households with For more information see page 8. income less than £25,000.

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If you have applied, attended your interview and been offered a place this 3 is the step by step process you will go SUPPORT through for enrolment. If you haven’t had AREAS an interview and been offered a place please email [email protected] and we will arrange a suitable time to call you. CHECK2 i IN You are now a Preston’s College student. We will send out your start date, ID badge and 3 induction information out to you via post, once your enrolment YOUR1 has been completed online. ENROLMENT JOURNEY Before you enrol if you STARTS need any support or further information on buses, HERE uniforms, kit or the bursary process you can visit www. preston.ac.uk or call Student Services on 01772 225656.

On Thursday 12th August GCSE results day you will be able to upload your results to the link we have sent to you. We will resend this link by email in the week VISIT PAGES leading up to GCSE results day. 6 - 7 For 17 and 18 year old learners, On the 29th March you will have received a link by email, you will be prompted to upload FOR THE and this will allow you to have logged into your enrolment your GCSE results on receipt of CAMPUS account and checked that all your personal details are up your enrolment account. to date and correct, and that you are happy with the course MAP you were offered at interview. You will need to accept your chosen course within the first section of your account. We will have staff on hand from all our curriculum areas If you wish to change the course you want to enrol onto and support staff to assist you please email us at and we will [email protected] throughout your enrolment amend your chosen course. journey.

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B Campus Key 1 Reception , In-Zone, Learning C 8 Zone & Chill Zone 7 2 Hartley 3 Rigby (Print room) 4 Earnshaw (Student Services, SEND office and Safeguarding) 5 Hirst 6 Tate (Work Experience office, Buses Only Student Mentor office and Starbucks) 7 Brogden 8 Dunn 9 iSTEM Centre 10 Lockwood (Sports Hall and Gym) 11 Vincent’s 12 Food Court (Campus Cohesion CAMPUS MAP office) A The High Street St Vincent’s Rd B Astroturf Pitch Main Entrance C St Vincent’s Car Park D Sharoe Green Car Park (Student 06 07 Entrance) BURSARY BUS INFORMATION

Learners are able to apply for further meals if they or their parents are in 2021/22 help towards the cost of equipment, receipt of the following benefits or have uniform and travel from the College a household income less than £16,190: Bursary funds, unless you are on an > Income Support Preston’s College is easily accessible Apprenticeship or HE programme. > Income based Jobseekers Allowance by bus, via operators Preston Bus, (JSA) Stagecoach and Transdev (East The details of the bursaries available Lancs). 16-18 year old learners > Income based Employment and are: studying with us in the academic year Support Allowance (ESA) 2021/22 can purchase bus passes for Vulnerable Bursary > Child Tax Credit (16-18 Years Only) the days that they attend college. > Working Tax Credit Learners from the following categories > Universal Credit The following buses are direct – this are entitled to this bursary: > Child Tax Credit (provided they are means that they drop off and pick up > in Care (including unaccompanied not entitled to Working Tax Credit from the Fulwood Campus. Asylum Seekers) and have an annual gross income of 125C Chorley > a Care Leaver no more than £16,190) 61C Wrea Green (via Kirkham) > in receipt of Income Support/ > Working Tax Credit run-on Universal Credit 40A Lancaster > Universal Credit with net earnings > in receipt of Employment Support not exceeding the equivalent of 59C Blackburn Allowance AND Disability Living £7,400 pa 68C Blackpool Allowance/Personal Independence Payment. Other bus routes go via Preston Bus If you are aged 19 and continuing on the station, where learners can catch the 16-18 Discretionary Learner same study programme that you started Stagecoach 125 service to college. Support Fund before you turned 19, or are aged 19-24 Preston Bus also provide a number of Provides financial help towards the cost and have a current Education Health services which run regularly in close of essential equipment, kit (uniform) and and Care Plan (EHCP), you could also proximity to the College. These services travel. be eligible. include 19, 23 and 15. 16-19 Childcare Preston Bus timetables and routes can Eligibility for the bursary fund is Funded through the Government’s be found at based on a household income of Care to Learn scheme, with a maximum www.prestonbus.co.uk less than £25,000. Evidence of weekly threshold of £160 per child. See TURN OVER income needs to be uploaded or Stagecoach bus timetables and routes www.gov.uk/care-to-learn for more FOR OUR emailed to Student Services at can be found at details. [email protected]. www.stagecoachbus.com BUS GUIDE Free College Meals Learners will also need access to Learners aged between 16–18 years old their own bank accounts. (excluding apprentices) at the start of Applicants with large families their course can access free college will need to see a welfare officer.

8 9 Details correct at time of 40A going to print. Please check 45 bus company websites for bus times (see page 9) BUS GUIDE Lancaster Bus Station [Stand 5] Blackbur The College also provides bus passes Galgate Crossroads Bus Station Wilpshire for the following routes: Knowsley Rd n Cabus Station Ln Salesbury Bonny Inn Stagecoach: 280 Ribchester Covers Preston to Skipton via Whalley and Clitheroe Garstang Bridge St Black Bull Longridge (opp. Post Office) Transdev: 152 Catterall Stubbins Ln Whittingham Preston BusHospital Gates Burnley - Blackburn - Preston via Padiham, Goosnargh Green Clayton-le-Moors and Feniscowles Bilsborrow Roebuck Broughton Willow Tree Ave Broughton Post Office Grapes Hotel 19 Royal Lane Ends Preston Tudor Ave Hospital

Lea Ashton KirkhamRail Statio & WeshaCliftonn m Stanagate Fulwood Plough Inn Wrea Green Direct Sion Hill opp. Post Office Services pp Post West End 68C 61C Tickled Trout Branch Rd ffice Bus Station Bus Station

61C 68C 59C 125C 40A War Memorial Lea RibbletonGrimsarghLongridge Tudor Ave Main Entrance 1 Freckleton SamlesburBAEy Mellor BrooBillingek Blackburn Road EnOswaldtwistled Accrington Great HarwoodRishton Towngate War Memorial Preston Bus Station 59C BAE Pickwick Tavern, Warton S Lytham Square [Stand 1] BlackpoolMarket St Square t Annes On Sea 59C 125C 45 Penwortham

Bamber Bridge Withy Trees Berry St Higher Walton Walmer Bridge Library Lostock Hall Lostock Hall Longton Library Library Mill Tavern The Bridge InnBooths Bamber Bridge Clayton-le-Woods Leyland Clayton Brook Poplar Ave Much Hoole Woodsman Moss Side/ Great Greens Ln Lostock Hall Smithy Inn Seven Stars Farington Shore Road/Chapel Rd Leyland Tesco Clayton Green Pines Hotel Indirect Services to Cock & Bottle Jubilee House Hesketh BanTarletok n Leyland Buckshaw Village 111 Seven Stars Preston’s College Lord Street/Duke St Central Ave Chorley Hartwood Hall Eccleston Green via Preston Bus Station The Warings Southport Euxton The Talbot Chorley Wigan 1 Longridge to Preston Chorley Bus Station Interchange [Stand E] 2 Southport to Preston Interchange 113 2A Ormskirk to Preston 109 Lower Burgh Way 45 Blackburn to Preston Ormskirk Bus Station Charnock Richard 109 Chorley to Preston Leeson Ave 111 Leyland to Preston 2 2A 113 Wigan to Preston 125C X2 Southport to Preston (not shown on map) 10 11 THE COLLEGE CODE

PRESTON’S COLLEGE BEHAVIOURS > Only bottled water allowed LISTEN in classrooms TO > Phones on silent and put away > Arrive on time to your lesson EACH ready and equipped OTHER > Coats off and ready to learn > Make sure you are wearing your ID badge at all times + > Try hard and reach your potential USE PROFESSIONAL > Respect each other > Use appropriate language LANGUAGE > Listen carefully, engage and participate > Smoking/e-cigarettes only permitted in designated areas

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IN DESIGNATED AREAS WEAR YOUR ID BADGE ID BADGES ON TIME, COATS OFF AND BE READY TO LEARN For your safety, when on College premises, students, staff and visitors must wear their ID badges at all times. Lanyards and ID badges are provided to learners at enrolment. For occasions when BE POLITE AND you may forget your ID badge, you can obtain up to 3 temporary day passes from Student Services. If you lose your badge, you can RESPECT obtain one free replacement from Student Services. Further replacements must be TRY HARD AND REACH EVERYONE purchased at a cost of £2.00. Please be YOUR POTENTIAL aware that failure to wear your ID badge will result in disciplinary action.

12 13 LEARNER SUPPORT INDUSTRY PLACEMENTS (SEND) AND TASTERS Work experience is an important part > Prepare for the demands and The Learner Support team aim to of your time at Preston’s College and expectations within the workplace provide a supportive platform for all is essential in making you the most > Help you make an informed decision learners to reach their goals. employable. on your career

> Do you have a learning difficulty, The benefits of completing your > Improves your maturity, confidence disability and or medical condition? Industry Placement and Taster include: and self-reliance > Do you have an EHC plan? > Develop employment skills > Have you received exam support The amount of work experience you including extra time, scribe or > Learn new technical skills need to complete depends on your smaller room in exams? > Learn to communicate with employers course and the level of study. Here is a > Improve your CV ready for work snapshot of what you can expect, but Speak with a member of the Learner > Gain employable opportunities remember you need to discuss this with Support teams, before or during your your tutor: enrolment, together we can discuss > Learn to network and create your your support needs and create an own network individual support plan. Level 1 Courses:

> Introduction to employers (site visits, college visits, interview practice) If you have already spoken with a member of our Learner Support team, > Volunteering in the community remember to email any specialist > 1 or 2 days in the workplace (where applicable) and medical reports to transition@ preston.ac.uk prior to your enrolment Level 2 Courses: including: > Required to complete 1 or 2 week taster with an employer

> Volunteering in the community > Medical reports > GP letters Level 3 and T Level Courses: > EHC plans > Required to complete a minimum of 35 hours work placement with an employer > Specialist reports > T-Level Introduction (minimum of 315 hours industry placement in the workplace in year 2) If you have an EHCP, the College If you would like to talk through requires a copy of the plan and time your potential support needs before > Some courses require a minimum of 315 hours of relevant industry experience with an external employer to review the document, before enrolment you can book enrolment, to ensure that we can meet an appointment by calling > Volunteering in the community to improve employability skills your individual needs. 01772 225328 or email [email protected] The Work Experience Team, alongside the Careers team and your tutors, will work with you to ensure you are ready for, and will benefit from, working within a relevant business to supplement your academic studies. Find us on the High Street!

14 15 DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN STUDY AN A-LEVEL ALONGSIDE YOUR LEVEL 3 COURSE? FREQUENTLY ASKED Studying an additional qualification can earn you more UCAS points and strengthen your application for university or career opportunities. QUESTIONS HOW IT WORKS STEP 1: Choose your Level 3 programme (to study a Level 3 course you need to have at least five GCSEs at grade 4 or above). I’ve changed my mind about the What time do classes start and end? STEP 2: Choose your A-Level option and meet the entry criteria detailed in the course I want to study? Classes start at 9.15am and end at table below. During the enrolment process we 4.15pm. There are four periods during will have a number of staff on hand the day. to change your application. Please A-Level Extra Entry Criteria call 01772 225774 and we will have Can I take holidays during term-time? A-Level Maths Five GCSEs at Grade 5 including English. You will also need somebody on hand to assist you. If No. You’ll find the term dates on the Maths at Grade 6. you are unsure on the course you want back of this guide to help you plan the A-Level English Five GCSEs at Grade 5 including Maths. You will also need to study then you can also speak to year. English at Grade 6. one of our careers advisors who will A-Level Biology Five GCSEs at Grade 5 including Maths and English. You be able to advise you on the options When will my first day be? will also need GCSE Biology at Grade 6. available to you. Your first day will be an induction Level 3 Five GCSEs at Grade 5 including Maths and English to the College and will be within the How long does enrolment take? Applied Law week beginning 6th September. Term Over summer you will have the Level 3 Certificate in FIve GCSEs at Grade 4 including Maths and English starts the following day or the first day opportunity to complete processes Performing Arts indicated on your timetable. such as bursary applications and this will save you time on GCSE results When will I get my timetable? day. If you need to speak with Student If you wish to study on the A-Level Extra programme please speak to a member of Services, SEND, or the bus pass team You will get your timetable at staff at enrolment. then you can do this by calling 01772 induction. Your timetable is bespoke 225656. Throughout July and August to you, it is built based on your grades, Preston’s College we are on hand to answer any queries. course of study and enrichment Email [email protected] or call activities. 01772 225774 and we can assist you COUNSELLING SERVICE with any College enquiries. Preston’s College offers a free and confidential counselling service for our students. We offer support on a wide range of issues. If you’re struggling, talking to someone My circumstances have changed since can really help. I applied – who should I tell? To make an appointment with a counsellor call Student Services on Before enrolment get in touch with T: 01772 225656 E: [email protected] Text: 07766 777199 the Application & Enrolment Team Ways to see a counsellor: on 01772 225081 or email > In person > By phone > By video link > By text [email protected].

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16 17 THE BEST PERFORMING COLLEGE COLLEGE NEWS IN CENTRAL LANCASHIRE

The pandemic has meant that students haven’t be able to physically visit and take trips, but there has been a lot of virtual activities going on! Here are some stories from the last year…

Q&A with Neil Mellor Hairdressing & Barbering In February 2021, Preston’s Learner of the Year Centre of Sporting Excellence Competition students attended an exclusive This year 11 students from virtual Q&A session on Hairdressing and Barbering Mental Resilience with former courses made it through to professional footballer and Concept Hair’s Grand Final of current Sky Sports News the Learner of the Year Award Presenter, Neil Mellor. 2021.

Duke of Edinburgh Guest Speakers Award Guest Speakers have been Preston’s College offers the making virtual appearances Duke of Edinburgh Award, talk this year and shared their to your Student Manager to expertise and knowledge find out more! with our learners. Preston’s College Dance have had a full schedule of speakers including workshops from past learners.

Virtual Careers Fair Construction Work Students could access 100s Experience of videos, interactive sessions Cody Robinson started a with universities and lots of work placement with ASG resources in our Virtual Careers Integrated Systems and made Fair. an impression straight away with his employer posting that he thinks Cody was doing it better than most.

18 19 TERM DATES 2021/22

ENROLMENT DATES GCSE Results Day: Thursday 12th August, 9am-7pm Friday 13th August, 9am-5pm Saturday 14th August, 9am-1pm Monday 16th August, 9am-5pm Tuesday 17th August, 9am-5pm

AUTUMN TERM 2021 Monday 6 Sept 2021 – Term Starts Monday 25 Oct – Friday 29 Oct 2021 – Mid Term Break 1 Friday 17 Dec 2021 – End of Term

SPRING TERM 2022 Tuesday 4 Jan 2022 – Term 2 starts Monday 14 Jan – Friday 18 Feb 2022 – Mid Term Break 2 Friday 1 Apr 2022 – End of Term Monday 4 April & Monday 18 April 2022 – Easter Bank Holidays

SUMMER TERM 2022 Tuesday 12 April 2022 – Term 3 starts Monday 2 May 2022 – COLLEGE CLOSED – PUBLIC HOLIDAY Monday 30 May – Friday 3 June 2022 – Mid Term Break 3 Friday 1 July 2022 – End of Term

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