CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE Annual Report 2019
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CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE Annual Report 2019 INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. WELCOME Thank you for taking the time to read our Annual Report. Thank you to all our students, staff, governors and partners The report outlines our performance against our strategic for their hard work, inspiration, innovation and success and plan, 2020 Vision – Leading for Excellence in Education we look forward to developing a new vision for Cambria & Skills, as we continued to focus on building on the from 2020. resounding success of Cambria since its formation. Notable successes in 2019 include the £21m re-development of Cambria’s Yale Site and the community Hub at Llysfasi, taking the investment on modern buildings for learners and apprentices since the merger to almost £60m. We maintained our place amongst the top A Level providers in the UK with an overall 99% pass rate and our HE provision continued to grow rapidly, heavily steered by employers and in partnership with sector leading Universities. WorldSkills was again a source of pride, where at the annual WorldSkills UK Show in Birmingham in November we won seven medals, were highly commended in two categories finishing fourth in the overall league table and number one in Wales. In addition to this success, the 10-strong Wales shortlist for the WorldSkills finals in Shanghai in 2021, features 5 Cambria learners. Chief Executive Chair of the Governors Yana Williams John Clutton Looking forward, we want the college to be seen as one of the best in the UK for its quality, its innovation, its kindness and its understanding of employers and communities. This will drive outstanding quality and support the college to be financially sustainable which in turn we can use to reinvest so that we are strong enough to weather future challenges. 02 | ANNUAL REPORT 2019 INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. PEOPLE People At the beginning of the year, Great Places to Work conducted a staff engagement survey on our behalf. Corporate Strategy Career Great Places to Work benchmark the results against Social and Direction Development other UK public sector organisations as well as against Responsiblity what they define as the UK’s ‘Best Super Large Workplaces’ - companies such as Adobe, Hilton and 77% 82% 85% Britvic. We are very pleased that the overall results show that there are very high levels of staff engagement at Coleg The main areas of strength were identified as follows: Cambria which far exceed the levels in other colleges and public sector organisations across the UK. Strategy and Direction - 77% (+33% above UK national average and +2% above BSLW) In July the college was awarded the eight place in Career Development - 82% the Super-Large category of the Best Workplaces (+26% above UK national average and +6% above BSLW) for Women list, alongside leading companies Gap, Admiral Group and Deloitte. Chosen because Corporate Social Responsiblity - 85% of its support of employees on maternity leave, (+22% above UK national average and +4% above BSLW) commitment to closing the gender pay gap, training schemes, and the number of women in senior leadership positions, Cambria was the only further education institution among the 55 ranked organisations. INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. ANNUAL REPORT 2019 | 03 EMPLOYER OF CHOICE People ACTIVE CAMBRIA ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS (ROSPA) PRESIDENT’S AWARD Active Cambria continued to support the college’s vision to engage all staff and students and encourage them to become active, healthy and mindful. During 2019 Active Cambria offered free fitness, wellness and health activities and advice days to everyone at the college, engaging and supporting our staff and students to change any bad habits into good ones. Both students and staff prospered from the opportunities given to them, such as reduced blood pressure, increased confidence, improved emotional development and weight loss. Once again in 2019 we were awarded the ROSPA President’s Award at gold standard for outstanding Health and Safety Management. The President’s Award recognizes organisations who have achieved the gold standard for 10 consecutive years and not only maintained the standard, but clearly demonstrated year on year improvements. Active Cambria also offered students hands on experience to develop themselves and their CVs through coaching opportunities, Duke of Edinburgh, various coaching awards, volunteering in the community and Erasmus plus projects. 04 | ANNUAL REPORT 2019 INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. CELEBRATING STAFF COMMITMENT People We celebrated and recognised the commitment of staff who have worked at the college for a large number of years as well as staff who have given over and above their job roles to ensure that our students are equipped with the skills and knowledge to succeed. Eleven individual staff awards and two team awards were presented in the categories of Achievement, Customer Service, Diversity, Leadership and Innovation. Seventeen colleagues also received long service awards for 25 years service. CUSTOMER SERVICE The staff at the Toybox Nursery were given a team award for their excellent customer focus both during and following a fire that happened a the nursery in June. They evacuated the children safely and effectively on the day of the fire and worked as a team to establish a temporary nursery at the Deeside 6th during the summer period ensuring that the children were settled and happy. They also worked together after hours and at weekends The Toybox Nursery Team towards the end of the refurbishment project to ensure that the nursery was ready for use in September. LEADERSHIP Angharad Jarvis - Hospitatility and Catering ACHIEVEMENT Sadie Thackaberry - Animal Care INNOVATION Mark Davies - Construction INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. ANNUAL REPORT 2019 | 05 TEACHING & LEARNING Throughout 2019 the college continued to invest in and develop excellent teaching and learning. In July we held a Teaching and Learning Conference for our staff with Geoff Petty, one of the UK’s leading experts on teaching methods as our keynote speaker. We also appointed seventeen Teaching and Learning Mentors to support and develop the quality of teaching and learning within their directorate to share examples, new ideas and strategies relating to best practice. A Higher Education Conference was held aimed at building on the work of last year in developing the HE Ethos for Coleg Cambria. INSPIRE TUTOR AWARD Essential skills tutor Pam Mclean won an Inspire Tutor Award for supporting victims of childhood abuse and domestic violence. Pam Mclean runs an essential skills course with a charity, helping women from all across North Wales to overcome barriers through learning, and says she’s constantly inspired by their stories of survival. 06 | ANNUAL REPORT 2019 INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. Customer STUDENT VOICE PARENT SURVEY In 2019 students were given excellent opportunities to The parent survey in Autumn 2019 shows that develop their citizenship and leadership skills through parents are very satisfied with Coleg Cambria Cambria’s learner voice process, by representing their as an education provider for their children. The classmates, taking part in the student parliament, vast majority, 98%, of parents/carers are satisfied regular campus councils and becoming student overall and 97% would recommend the college. leaders as presidents and student governors. Students worked with tutors and managers to discuss topical issues concerning them and to further develop say their son/daughter the experience for all learners across all sites and all is expected to work hard types of learning, including learners in the community 99% Parents or and do their best and work based learners and learners studying higher Carers education courses. say their son/daughter 97% is learning new skills Parents or STUDENT Carers SURVEYS positive response rate about the high quality of Student surveys in 2019 indicate very strong learner 96% the learning opportunities satisfaction with their course and the college as their provider: 95% 87% 90% satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction Work based FE students School Links learners learners INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. ANNUAL REPORT 2019 | 07 WORLDSKILLS Twenty one students from Cambria were invited to the The college’s strong team of contenders, thanks to its national finals of the annual WorldSkills UK Show in prominent industry links and business partnerships, won Birmingham in November 2019 to represent Wales. seven medals, were highly commended in two categories and finished fourth in the overall league table and number one in Wales. We also had judges and training managers Sam Darby-Moorhouse installed within WorldSkills, plus a growing team of scrutineers in Construction Metalwork, Manufacturing, Electrical Installation, CNC Milling and Beauty. Oliver Artell-Bolland Carwyn Roberts Charles Samson Jessica Bruce Ben Simcox 08 | ANNUAL REPORT 2019 INSPIRE. INNOVATE. SUCCEED. Customer Coleg Cambria Medalists SHANGHAI 2021 Coleg Cambria will compete for places GOLD Jessica Bruce Hairdressing at the ‘Skills Olympics’ in Shanghai next year. Carwyn Roberts SILVER CNC Milling Airbus Six of our learners have made the Long Squad for Worldskills. SILVER Sam Darby-Moorhouse Graphic Design The list is made up of 137 apprentices BRONZE David Duncan Welding who will now join the event’s talent programme to try to secure a place on Charles Samson Manufacturing Team the team that will represent the UK at BRONZE Magellan Aerospace Challenge the prestigious skills contest. James Blackwell Manufacturing