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National Careers Week 2021

It is National Careers Week 2021 and to celebrate we wanted to showcase some of the opportunities available through our WorkStart courses. All our courses provide opportunities for students to gain work experience in their chosen area, while gaining employability …
4th March 2021

Donations to the local food bank

Staff and students have been donating food to centres over the past few weeks. Last week, students Daniel and Kyle from VPC went to the Merton Food Bank and delivered all the food donations. Daniel said “it is great to …
15th February 2021

Happy National Apprenticeship Week

We are thrilled to be celebrating National Apprenticeship Week this week with some exciting news from some of our apprentices. We were pleased to have a new apprentice who joined us this month and is working at Bedelsford School. Joe’s …
12th February 2021

Great work from our sixth form students

Sixth Form students from Wyvern House have been working hard on their weekly topic of Mental Health. The theme was to coincide with the “Walking to Mecca” challenge that staff and students are taking part in across the college, and …
9th February 2021

Alexa helping out at home

Student, Evie from Wyvern House is able to use Alexa at college and home as part of her independent living skills. She has benefited by setting Alexa for alarms to encourage her to drink her milkshake within a time period …
8th February 2021

Transferring skills from college to home

Lauren, a student from VPC has been working really hard this term on her independent living skills within the college, such as staying safe in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning. Unfortunately Lauren has had to self-isolate at home due to …
3rd February 2021

Students and staff get moving for Ramadan

Students and staff continue to find innovative ways to keep their spirits up and stay connected with each other and their community during lockdown. This term we have a cross-college competition to walk enough steps to make it all the …
1st February 2021

OHC making it possible for Joseph to access his local community!

One of our students from VPC is now able to access his local community safely and with social restrictions in place. Staff are meeting Joseph at home, walking to his local park and engaging in a health and wellbeing session. …
26th January 2021

Virtual Open Events

This week, we have our Virtual Open Events coming up. In the interests of safety all Open Events this term will be virtual. These offer a flexible, hassle-free way to view the college. These will include an overview of the …
25th January 2021

Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

We are pleased to announce that all of our students who signed up for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, have now completed this and received their Bronze Award. Unfortunately, students were not able to take part in an expedition, however …
14th January 2021

Care packages for bursary students

We were thrilled to be able to give Christmas hampers to all our bursary students this year and hope the students and their families enjoyed the packages. If you need information or advice on financial support, bursaries, enrichment activities, benefits …
7th January 2021

Christmas Card Competition

Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust held their annual Christmas card competition and were thrilled to have some many entries from the college. Sophie at VPC won first prize for the college. Well done, Sophie!
4th January 2021