East Coast College Group Strategic Plan 2020 - 2030 “Growing Talent, Building Communities” OUR PURPOSE: To transform individuals and build communities through education OUR VALUES: ASPIRATIONAL Being supportive, exploring potential and challenging ourselves daily RESPECTFUL Acting with compassion, being inclusive, and welcoming to others in our learning community and to our environment PROFESSIONAL Putting team first, acting with integrity, developing our expertise and having a focused work ethic SUCCESSFUL Determining our ambition, achieving excellence and continually raising standards Our History 1874 1904 1924 1945 1954 1973 2007 2015 The first art classes Grace Musson is The first maritime Evening Institute Lowestoft Technical The school leaving Both Lowestoft The participation held at St John’s appointed as Pupil classes held – classes commence Institute becomes age is raised to16 and Great Yarmouth age for being School, Lowestoft Teacherof Art Navigation for in Great Yarmouth Lowestoft Technical Colleges start a in education or Fishermen College collaboration with training is raised 1976 University College to 18 Suffolk (later 1890 1946 Great Yarmouth University of Suffolk) 1955 College moves to deliver their 2017 County 1933 Grace Musson retires from being part of The first sod is degree courses Great Yarmouth councils are and the Lowestoft the borough council Technical Welfare cut for the new and Lowestoft provided with School of Art is split to join Norfolk Occupational buildings at St Colleges merge to government funding from the Technical County Council to develop technical Centre is opened Institute which is Peter’s Street, 2010 form East Coast education for unemployed renamed Lowestoft Lowestoft College men Technical College The Keir building for one year before 1993 opens at Great reverting to its Yarmouth College 2018 1910 1960 Lowestoft and previous name Lowestoft Sixth Daytime classes start Great Yarmouth 1940 Both Lowestoft Form College inClapham Road Colleges separate and Great Yarmouth merges into East following the Royal Naval from their county Technical Colleges Coast College departure of the School of Cookery is 1947 become Colleges councils and secondary established of Further Education become education to the The school leaving independent new Municipal age is raised to 15 corporations Secondary School in 1891 Yarmouth Road - the 1965 site of the current 1941 1953 1995 The Science Denes High School The St Peter’s 2011 and Art School The Technical Great Yarmouth Street buildings The Church Lowestoft Sixth moves into Regent Institute building Technical College are completed and Road buildings are Form College Road and the Town in Clapham opens in the former opened. The closed and all 1921 opens as a Hall in Lowestoft Road, Lowestoft, Edward Worlledge Lowestoft School of provision is delivered 2019 replacement for The school leaving is destroyed by School buildings in Art merges with the from the main Benjamin Britten, age is raised to 14 bombing Southtown College of Further Southtown campus The Energy Skills Denes and Kirkley Education in Great Yarmouth Centre opens on the 1898 High Schools’ sixth Lowestoft campus forms A new permanent 1923 1954 building for the 1973 2020 Technical and Art Grace Musson is Great Yarmouth 2013 Institute, shared appointed as Technical College Russell Report The college with the new high Principal of expands into recommends the The participation achieved Ofsted school, opens in Lowestoft Technical buildings in Cobholm expansion of age for being in ‘Good’ and a Clapham Road, Institute and School and Church Road, nonvocational adult education or training Financial Health Lowestoft of Art Gorleston education is raised to 17 Good 4. 5. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AoC Beacon Award matrix standard cross Commended East Coast College has college 2019/20 been chosen to offer status 2 years accreditation for running for our T Levels provision of approach to information, advice mental health - and guidance 18/19 & 19/20 Recognised by Received a Lowestoft Sixth Form In January 2020, the new Civil Worked in partnership with Ofsted as a ‘Good Financial Health College rated in the Engineering and Construction Unloc to develop our student provider’ in March rating of good in top 10% nationally Campus in Lound was leaders and consult with 2020 2020 for A level and BTEC launched students on Strategic performance Planning EEEGR Awards 2019 - Winners of the Outstanding Contribution to Wendy Stanger won 2020 Acquired Nexus Skills and EEEGR Member of the Year award Governance Resilient Business of Engineering - Professional of the the Year award providing STEM Year in 2019 winner for 2019 provision for pre-16 In September 2019, the new In December 2018, the Offshore International Educational Centre of Wind Skills Centre was launched at In November 2019, the Energy Skills Centre was Excellence was opened our Great Yarmouth opened at our Lowestoft campus Campus 6. 7. SUPPORTING FE FOOD BANK FRIDAY East Coast College joined forces with nine other colleges across the country who signed up to an OUR COMMUNITY initiative aimed at tackling food shortages in their communities throughout the coronavirus crisis. THROUGH With financial hardship and job losses a significant issue amid the pandemic, foodbanks were under pressure to help provide food and essential household items for the increasing number of COVID-19 people requiring their services. In March 2019 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, East Coast College became an The college raised £2,000 for the cause. online community college offering virtual off-campus learning and wellbeing support to students, staff, parents and carers. BAKING-A-DIFFERENCE In addition to its educative role, the college worked to support the wider community Lecturer Kathy Abel joined a team of 20 donating personal protective equipment, supporting its local foodbanks and much bakers who made sweet treats to send out to key more. workers during the coronavirus outbreak. WELLBEING ACTIVITY PACKS The Baking-A-Difference team made thousands of Health and Social Care students helped to spread cupcakes with ingredient donations and some joy throughout Covid-19 by creating sponsorship coming in from a range of local wellbeing activity packs. business, including our catering department. The packs, which included a letter, pictures, craft The cupcakes were delivered from North ideas, jokes, recipes and quizzes were designed by Walsham to Halesworth, with hospital and care students across both campuses. home staff, police and shopkeepers all benefiting. The packs were distibuted to 30 care homes including Stradbroke Court and The Dell in Lowestoft, Decoy Farm and Burgh House in Great STUDENT CREATED FACE Yarmouth and Laurel Lodge in Norwich. MASKS FOR THE COMMUNITY STAFF COMPLETE 668-MILE Jazmine Foster spent lockdown hard at work helping the community. CHALLENGE Jazmine created more than 150 face masks which Eight members of staff completed 668 miles from she distributed to her nursery colleagues, elderly Lowestoft to Mount Snowdon and back again in neighbours and friends. May. Jazmine was in her second year of a Childcare & The team walked, cycled and ran between three Learning Development Level 5 Foundation Degree. to 30 miles a day and completed the challenge in seven days. Donations for their efforts were made towards the In June 2020, East Coast College launched a ‘Retrain, Reskill and Restart college’s foodbank campaign, with over £200 “ Fund’ to offer 1,000 free course places to get adults back into work. raised in that week alone. East Coast College at the heart of supporting The fund was aimed at those who had lost their jobs during lockdown, or those thinking about a change in direction in their work our local community. lives. 8. “ 9. OUR £ £ For every Learners gain Society gains Taxpayers gain COLLEGE £1... £8.30 £5.60 £3.90 in added taxes and in lifetime earnings in added UK revenue and savings public sector 2019/20 savings Cash Income: Balance: 98% We are the ECC largest £28 of learners Borrowing Total Economic have cash ratio as % £4.9 apprenticeship Impact Million progresed to of income: Million provider in positive the region £264 destinations 40% Million Adjusted Financial 74% Health Current 86% of graduates Ratio of learners achieved a successfully 1st or 2:1 ‘GOOD’ achieved their in 2019 1:1 qualifications Apprentice Employers No. of employees Adjusted cash days Norfolk Community College have helped: 400 652 72 832 10. 11. Since our inception three years ago, East Coast College has sought to play a leading role in helping our community develop and grow. We wanted to change the perception that our community has low aspirations. We wanted to stop the past underachievement that has led to too many jobs being low wage, low productivity and viewed as low skill. Our strategy has been built around a clear vision and mission and appropriate and strong values. Our actions have been aimed at winning our market, improving our business, developing our people and fostering student success, progression and wellbeing. We were ambitious. We have achieved a Good Ofsted grade and a Good financial rating, so we are officially a Good College. But what does that mean for our learners, for our staff, and for our community of stakeholders and employers? It means better progression and better life chances, a better place to work. For our community it meant that when we were faced with the impact of Covid-19, our learners and staff worked miracles together to make ECC an online College and to provide help for so many people and organisations. ECC became the ‘go to’ place for help. Despite the unprecedented challenges we now face from climate change and the economic and social upheaval wrought by the virus, we have a team that can meet them head on. I am confident that we can overcome obstacles and take the opportunities full on that will arise from the need to reskill, to retrain and to work in partnership with the key sectors of our local economy.