FILTON CAMPUS Filton Avenue, Bristol, BS34 7AT
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FILTON CAMPUS Filton Avenue, Bristol, BS34 7AT FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS PART-TIME INFORMATION GUIDE Thank you for enrolling with South Gloucestershire and Stroud College. The College aims to provide students with a positive and enjoyable experience with the following information outlining key areas relating to your time with us. We appreciate all feedback so please do not hesitate to contact us on [email protected] with any recommendations or concerns you may have during your time with the College. OPENING TIMES TERM TIME Open Close NON TERM TIME Open Close Monday 08:30 17:30 Monday 08:30 17:30 Tuesday 08:30 21:15 Tuesday 08:30 21:15 Wednesday 08:30 21:15 Wednesday 08:30 21:15 Thursday 08:30 17:30 Thursday 08:30 17:30 Friday 08:30 17:30 Friday 08:30 17:30 CLOSURE DATES All campuses will be closed on bank holidays. 2 TRAVEL Trains Bristol Parkway and Filton Abbey There are lots of ways you can travel Wood railway stations are a short to our Filton Campus:- walk to our Filton Campus. Bicycles A Student Railcard may qualify you There are bicycle pods at the Filton for reduced fares (up to a third on Campus. Students are advised to use most travel). To get one you’ll need to strong and effective locks to secure provide: their bicycles as the College cannot • Evidence of your age if you are 16 accept responsibility for bicycles left to 25 years old or on the premises. • Proof that you are studying 15 hours per week if you are a Buses mature student. SGS College is well served by local • Proof of full time enrolment buses, with our Filton Campus being • A passport-sized photograph accessible from Parkway train station. To search what buses and routes are You will be charged a small fee for available in your area, please go to: the Railcard. It lasts for 12 months http://www.traveline.info/ or call and can be purchased from your local 0871 200 2233. train station. SGS College has invested in Parking providing students from the BS15 At Filton Campus you will have access to & BS16 districts with a subsidised a free car park. However, the parking is bus service. Further details can be managed to reduce the number of cars found at: http://www.sgscol.ac.uk/ on site to encourage students to subsidisedbus/ consider more environmentally friendly forms of travel, in line with sustainable Current bus timetables for your local transport initiatives. To register your car area can be obtained from Reception. you will need to visit our SGS website using your SGS student number, There is also a shuttle bus service otherwise parking charges will apply. between Filton and WISE Campuses, For more information, please contact which runs regularly throughout the reception. Please note car parks can be day in term time. Timetables for the busy at peak times, we strongly service are available at the reception encourage car sharing. All sites with desks. parking have facilities for disabled students. 3 Learning Resource Centre (LRC) FACILITIES Our state of the art Learning Resource Centre (LRC) combines traditional Refreshments library services with outstanding IT There are food outlets on the Campus facilities, such as internet access, which serve a variety of hot and cold online journals and databases to options including a Starbucks Coffee help you learn. It provides a quiet shop. working environment for independent study, as well as group study space. Books covering all course subjects REFECTORY OPEN CLOSES OPENING are available, as well as fiction, HOURS autobiographies, newspapers, magazines, journals and DVDs. Monday 08:00 15:00 Tuesday 08:00 15:00 OPENING HOURS OPEN CLOSES Wednesday 08:00 15:00 Monday 08:30 18:00 Thursday 08:00 15:00 Tuesday 08:30 18:00 Friday 08:15 15:00 Wednesday 08:30 20:00 STARBUCKS OPEN CLOSES Thursday 08:30 20:00 OPENING Friday 08:30 14:00 HOURS Monday 08:30 18:00 Gym There are gyms at our WISE Campus Tuesday 08:30 18:00 and Stroud Campus for all our Wednesday 08:30 20:00 students to use. Both gyms have a range of cardiovascular equipment, Thursday 08:30 20:00 machine and free weights, and group Friday 08:30 14:00 exercise areas. The gyms are used by academic students for practical lessons, If these facilities are not available strength and conditioning sessions then machine based food and drink for the sports academies, with some availability open for all.To book your dispensers will usually be available. gym induction, please email [email protected] or [email protected] 4 SECURITY AND SAFETY Student Cards and Lanyards the wellbeing of our students, particularly Before the course starts, please visit the those considered as vulnerable young front of house Customer Experience Team people and adults. The College is an active and ask for your student ID badge and member of both the South Gloucestershire lanyard. If you are not able to visit College and Gloucestershire Local Safeguarding prior to the day your course starts, please Children Boards (LSCBs). The College arrive 30 minutes prior to your start time complies with all statutory legislation and and enable you to collect your lanyard. ID guidance under: cards allow you to access certain areas of • The Children Act (1989) – Section 47 the College, such as the Learning Resource • The Education Act (2002) Centre (LRC). Lanyards are worn for your • The Children Act (2004) own safety and security and must be worn • Keeping Children Safe in Education (2015) at all times whilst on site. It is advisable to • Prevent Duty Guidance (2015) liaise with your tutor prior to collecting your card to ensure you are enrolled fully and College staff are Disclosure and Barring that the Campus is accessible on the day Service checked to the required level. you wish to collect your ID card. They also receive safeguarding training at induction as well as regular refresher Safeguarding training so that they know how to respond South Gloucestershire & Stroud College to any safeguarding concerns. The College (SGS) is committed to promoting the designated Safeguarding Officers have well-being of all students and protecting undertaken the appropriate level of safe- them from harm. We fully recognise that guarding training and work closely with it is the responsibility of all staff to ensure curriculum, support staff and external that students are safe within the College agencies to provide the right support for environment and this includes: raising students when needed. awareness of, and a zero tolerance approach to bullying; ensuring students What do I do if I am concerned about the are safe on and around College Campuses; welfare of another student? paying due regard to our responsibilities in Speak to your tutor as they will be best relation to health and safety, child placed to take this forward and address protection issues and risks of radicalisation. your concerns. At SGS, we believe in ensuring students’ time at College is a positive and rewarding What do I do if I have a personal issue that experience, where: is impacted upon my studies? • We respect and value each other Speak to your tutor as they will be best • We respect and value students, parents placed to take this forward and address and employers your concerns. If your concern is of a safe- • We want the best for all our students guarding or child protection nature, then • We change lives the staff member may have to take this • At SGS you succeed forward with the safeguarding team and this can’t always remain confidential due to At SGS we do our very best to make sure the College’s duty of care to all students. that all our students feel safe, valued, respected and are listened to. We also make What if I don’t feel comfortable talking a sure that all new and existing students are concern through with my tutor? made aware of what safeguarding is and If the concern is of a safeguarding or child how we can support them whilst at College. protection nature, then you can ring the SGS College recognises it has a statutory safeguarding team to discuss your concerns duty and responsibility to actively promote on 0117 909 2231 or 07903 894527. 5 • Seek help at the earliest opportunity from the College should you need it; CODE OF CONDUCT • Stay safe and do not put others at risk; This Student Code of Conduct sets • Follow the College’s Health & Safety out the College’s expectations about guidelines and adopt ethical working appropriate student behaviour for an practices; outstanding learning experience. This • Treat College property with care and Code is applied to all Higher Level and follow relevant College guidelines Professional students of the College from when using specialist equipment, enrolment up to the completion of their including IT equipment; and studies. An important principle of this • Adhere to College guidance on the Code is that it promotes a holistic view use of social media, the Internet and of the life as a student; and, that what an mobile devices as outlined in the individual may believe to be an isolated Student Handbook or minor incident could actually have quite serious implications on their course You may: of study. Therefore, the College expects • Only smoke in the designated all students to conduct themselves to the smoking areas whilst on College highest possible standards of behaviour; premises. working in partnership with us and peers to maintain a professional, respectful, You must not: safe, supportive and successful learning • Substantial obstruction or environment for all.