We proud to announce that our Principal and CEO, Simon Pirotte, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List 2021 for his services to Further and Higher education.
Congratulations to Simon on this wonderful achievement! 🎉
Read more here:
Simply the Best!
#FECollegeoftheYear
Thank you to each and everyone of our learners, staff & Governors who have made this award possible!
🎉🎉🎉 3 cheers to the....
BEST UK FE College 2019 🥳🥳🥳
🎖️ Our Principal and CEO Simon Pirotte's OBE for services to further and higher education was recently bestowed by HRH The Princess Royal at a ceremony in Windsor Castle.
Wonderful recognition of
@spirotte
's exceptional leadership of the College since 2013!
Rydym yn hynod o falch o’n Pennaeth y Gymraeg, Carys Swain.
🏆 Mae hi wedi ennill gwobr am Gyfraniad Arbennig yng Ngwobrau Blynyddol
@colegcymraeg
. Mae'r wobr hon oherwydd ei phenderfyniad, ei gwaith caled a’i hymrwymiad i’r Gymraeg.
Da iawn Carys! 🌟
HOT OF THE PRESS: Our very people centred and inspirational Deputy Principal
@Vivbuckley
has been crowned the winner of the Leadership in Public Sector Award this afternoon at
@leadersinwales
Awards. Congratulations Viv, we are very proud of you!
#LWA2018
Congratulations to our Deputy Principal
@Vivbuckley
on winning ‘Outstanding Educator’ at the
@wfcp2022
Awards of Excellence.
What an incredible international achievement, recognising your dedication, commitment and impact on the lives of so many.
⭐⭐What an achievement - Bridgend College have gained 24th place in the
@bestcompanies
Top 100 Not For Profit Organisations to Work For category! We are absolutely delighted to have achieved such an accolade, based on our commitment to workplace engagement.⭐⭐
#BestCompanies2020
It was our great pleasure to welcome Jeremy Miles MS, Minister for Education and Welsh Language, to officially open our new state-of-the-art STEAM Academy for students on our
#Pencoed
Campus 🎀
Read more:
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
Congratulations to our CEO and Principal for winning The Director of the Year Award category for Public/Third Sector at the
@The_IoD
Awards tonight!! Well deserved
#DotYA
@IoDWales
#LoveOurColleges
At 12.15 today students & staff downed tools & came together for 30 mins to support action against
#climatechange
If we all make small changes to how we live, we can make a huge difference together!
Thanks
@GretaThunberg
for inspiring us
#ClimateStrike
#GreenAt1215
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
We have been shortlisted in THREE categories for the
@tesfenews
awards 2020!
✅Apprenticeship programme of the year
✅FE leader of the year
@spirotte
✅Specialist provider of the year
@TyWestonHouse
What a fantastic start to 2020!
I'm Luke, I went to Heronsbridge School before I started Bridgend College. Thanks to the support I received at college, I now study Foundation Degree Film & dream of becoming an actor. The college has enabled me to achieve the unthinkable!
#AutismAwarenessDay
#BeYourBestVersion
🏗️ An exciting milestone in the construction of our state-of-the-art STEAM Academy in Pencoed.
@spirotte
,
@Vivbuckley
, VP Andrew Gibbs and Chair of Governors Paul Croke have taken part in a Topping Out ceremony, which marks the completion of the main structure. Roll on Sep 2021!
Fantastic launch of our STEAM Academy today.
It was a pleasure to have
@wgmin_education
with us to help ‘break ground’ of the new build.
Take a look at what the STEAM Academy is set to look like as its doors open in September 2021
🥳 Some fantastic news to finish the week
Our incredible Deputy Principal
@VivBuckley
has been shortlisted for the
@WFCPsecretariat
2022 Awards of Excellence 🏆
Viv is nominated in the 'Outstanding Educator' category. We could not agree more! ✨
We are delighted to have received the award for our achievement for being placed 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not For Profit Organisation to Work For 2020!
#beallthatyoucanbe
🌟 We've done it! 🌟
We're so proud to announce that Bridgend College has been awarded Gold status in
@MindCharity
Workplace Wellbeing Index! Follow the link to read more.
#mentalhealth
#mindworkplaceawards
👏 Congratulations Ruth Rowe, our Entrepreneurship Officer for receiving an
@EEUK
Fellowship, an award recognising the work of enterprise educators across the UK.
Ruth is the only Fellow from either a Welsh institution or an FE college 🏴
Read more:
Congratulations to Sport student Cai! Today he received a Triple Distinction in Sport 😱😱
Now off to
@ManMetUni
to study Sports Marketing 🎉🎉🎉
Llongyfarchiadau Cai!!
Lovely to so many happy faces at our virtual gathering of Work-Based Learning staff,
@TyWestonHouse
and
@spirotte
– all nominated for awards at the
#TesFEawards2020
.
Such a good turnout that we couldn't quite fit everyone on one screen! We're so proud of you all ❤️
This morning, 76 year old Albert has enrolled onto a Carpentry course here at
#BridgendCollege
to start in September, proving that you are never too old to learn.
#resultsday2018
#OpenDay
We are extremely proud to announce that we are officially a
#GoogleReferenceCollege
The first college in Wales to be given this esteemed title
Thanks to
@Aspire2Be
for their incredible support along this journey of cultural change at the College
🎥
We are delighted to launch our brand new innovated digital space
@_den_01
A fantastic evening to showcase our exciting digital curriculum and help student, staff and the wider community to learn new digital skills
Thanks to
@Aspire2Be
for sponsoring the event
#den01
We are very pleased to announce that our Principal & CEO Simon Pirotte is one of the finalists for
@IoDWales
'Director of the Year' (Public/Third Sector) Pob Lwc / Good luck Simon from everyone at Bridgend College!
HOT OFF THE PRESS 🎉
We have been crowned the winners of the Embedding a Culture of Workplace Wellbeing 2019 at the
@CIPDWales
Awards
#CIPDWalesAwards2019
We are proud to announce a pilot scheme in partnership with
@coleggwent
and
@UniSouthWales
that will form a new qualification in cyber-security, designed to create new routes into tech careers for a new generation of digital students
#NDECShowcase
We are delighted that the daughter of our
#BridgendCollege
Nursery Nurse has won the ‘Child of Courage’ Award at tonight’s
@bridgefmradio
Young Achiever Awards tonight 🥳
Llongyfarchiadau i ti Amira
#BFMYA19
Snowdon ✅
Cadair Idris ✅
Penyfan ✅
Well done to staff and learners who walked the 3 Welsh Peaks today.
First walk started 4am... done and dusted by 8.30pm this evening.
Fantastic effort by all and a well done to everyone for raising money for
@2wishupon
We are so thrilled and honoured to be crowned winners of the FE College category
@Whatuni
Student Choice Awards 2018. We were up against some fantastic FE Colleges from around the UK! Take a look at how we won...
⚽Unfortunately it wasn’t our night but we’re incredibly proud of our fantastic Football Academy for reaching the ECFA Premier Cup final match.
Well done to all the players, substitutes, staff and families for supporting our learners to reach this incredible achievement.
We are incredibly proud of our Head of Welsh, Carys Swain.
🏆 She has won an award for Special Contribution at the
@colegcymraeg
Annual Awards. This award is for her determination, hard work and commitment towards the Welsh Language.
Da iawn Carys! 🌟
👏 Huge congratulations to Dr Gwenllian Lansdown Davies
@MudiadMeithrin
! A very worthy winner of
@chwaraeteg
's
#Womenspire
Leader award
@Vivbuckley
is such an incredible role model to our students and we're chuffed to bits to see her shortlisted and recognised for her work 🎉
STAFF SUCCESS!!
We're pleased to announce that Animal Care lecturer, Pete Dunford, has recently been accepted onto Google for Education's Certified Innovator Program! Pete will be bringing fresh ideas and skills for leading innovation in education to
#BridgendCollege
WOW... what a day we have had!
The
#BCPossibilities
CPD day was just fantastic!
Thank you everybody including our guest speakers who have helped make today possible 👍
Diolch yn fawr
We were even trending on twitter!!! 🎉🎉
Today we say farewell to Hannah in marketing! Hannah studied Creative Media with us before becoming a full time member of staff over 4 years ago! We wish her all the best
#GreatThingsStartatBridgendCollege
BREAKING NEWS: Today we have won the FE Week & AELP Apprenticeship Provider of the Year Award! We're very delighted to have won this prestigious award
#feweek
#apprenticeship
#ApprenticeshipWeek
Thank you for coming back to see us Jac! It’s always great to have Bridgend College alumni visiting our new cohort of students to share stories and experiences!
You’re an inspiration to our staff and students
@JosephMusical
#BeAllThatYouCanBe
Lovely to get back to the old stomping ground
@BridgendCollege
today to chat to the new generation of Musical Theatre students! Great questions & a lot of talent! Thank you
@GraceWarner
😘
#BridgendCollege
We're thrilled to have achieved 2 star 'outstanding' status in the
@bestcompanies
Sunday Times Top 100 Best Not For Profit Organisations To Work For 2020! We're so proud of our staff and governors who make Bridgend College such an outstanding place to work
#BestCompanies2020
Huge congratulations to 3 of our learners who have recently signed a professional contract with
@ospreys
Over the last two years they have worked extremely hard on and off the pitch at our first class
#RugbyAcademy
Well done to everyone!
#BeYourBestVersion
We couldn't be prouder of our inspirational Health & Social Care staff and learners who are out supporting our communities and the NHS.
You are our heroes 💙
We have also been crowned the winners of the ‘Best Organisational Design / Learning and Development Initiative’ category
We are super chuffed 🥳🥳👏👏
#CIPDWalesAwards2019
#yourtimetoshine
We are committed to every student and staff member’s mental health and wellbeing here at Bridgend College. That’s why we’ve signed up to
@AoC_info
Mental Health & Wellbeing Charter
#LoveOurColleges
#BeYourBestVersion
Congratulations to our Honorary Fellow
@UzoIwobi
on being awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s birthday honours, for services to racial equality and to championing diversity and inclusion - we are so proud of you!
🤞We are wishing our Deputy Principal,
@Vivbuckley
, the very best of luck at the
@Wfcp2022
Awards of Excellence.
Viv is nominated in the 'Outstanding Educator' category, which we already think she is!
#WFCP2022
#TVET
#Excellence
Liam studied with us on the Level 3 IT course and achieved a Triple Distinction
#NailedIt
Now he is off to study an Applied Software Engineering course in
@cardiffuni
Awesome!! Well done Liam 🎉🎉🎉
We are delighted to end the term with news that Jeff Greenidge is our new Chair of the Governing Body 👏
@jeff_jdgee11
is an experienced teacher, coach and leadership mentor who also does exceptional work with
@E_T_Foundation
and
@AoC_info
Read more:
Fantastic to be part of the
@PrideCymru
parade today, celebrating with our LGBTQ+ staff and allies.
We want to be an inclusive place to learn and work, where people can be authentic and be all that they can be.
#UniqueAndUnited
#PrideCymru
As part of
#WorldMentalHealthDay
yesterday, we encouraged our staff to bring their dogs into work. Research has repeatedly shown the positive impact our four-legged friends have on our mental health and wellbeing. Here's a photo of some that came into work with their owners 🐶🐾
🏆 We are delighted to be the winner of the Outstanding Training Provider of the Year 2022 Award with
@cmi_managers
.
This is a huge achievement for us! Thank you to our committed staff and our ambitious students.
Our next award for Outstanding Training Provider of the Year goes to…
@BridgendCollege
👏
Bridgend College has made a huge positive impact on the development and performance of their learners - well done for this great achievement!
#CMIAwards2022
This week, colleges in Wales have reopened. The first set of students are undertaking their practical assessments.
Watch how
@BridgendCollege
prepared for its plumbing students.
Together we’ll keep education safe.
#KeepWalesSafe
@ColegauCymru
Bringing some Easter smiles to children of key workers, teachers and volunteers in hubs across Bridgend today, delivering over 500 donated Easter eggs in partnership with
@BridgeFMradio
and
@BridgendCBC
.
Pasg Hapus 🐣
Congratulations
@peateedee
You are the very first Google Certified Innovator at
#BridgendCollege
What an achievement 👏
We can’t wait to hear all about your adventures ☺️
#SuperProud
We’re packing up here in Sweden now and preparing to fly home. It’s been a thrilling few days and, like many have already said on here, I feel like my family has just grown by 36! Thank you so so much!
#SWE19
#GoogleEI
Roedd yn bleser mawr gennym groesawu Jeremy Miles AS, Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg, i agor ein Academi STEAM newydd sbon i fyfyrwyr ar Gampws
#Pencoed
yn swyddogol 🎀
Darllenwch fwy:
🏗️ We love this fabulous drone photo showing progress on our new STEAM Academy, opening September 2021. 💨 Full steam ahead!
👇
☝️
🏗️ Dyma lun drôn gwych yn dangos y gwaith ar ein Academi STEAM newydd sy'n agor ym mis Medi 2021. 🚂 I fyny ac ymlaen!
We’re all dressed up and ready for
@Whatuni
Student Choice Awards. Fingers crossed for Best FE College HE Award
#wusca
Wedi gwisgo i fyny ar gyfer y Gwobrau heno! Croesi bysedd am y wobr
#addysguwch
#beallthatyoucanbe
Based on the National Weather Warning by Met Office we have decided to close all College campuses tomorrow (1st March) & Friday (2nd March). This decision has been made due to safety of our learners and staff.
BCBC & neighbouring authorities have already advised schools to close
What a fantastic week we've had to celebrate learners' success cross-college. Here's a little taster of our Annual Awards Ceremony that was held on Thursday evening
#BCAwards19
#BeYourBestVersion
🥳 What a result,
@Stevejobs_wales
! 🎉
Joint winner of
@theCDI
's Career Services Manager of the Year award. A huge vindication of the amazing work that you and your
@cyfleoedd
team does for our learners 👏
Congratulations also to Sarah Vaughan
@connectmycareer
#UKCDA21
🥳 What a week. We were delighted to receive the keys to our brand new STEAM Academy on Thursday and we cannot wait to welcome students to this truly world-class facility
This was only possible with the exceptional work and support of
@isglimited
@RioArchitects
and
@WG_Education
Our Football academy offers students the opportunity to develop, both as a player and as a person.
You'll be led by experienced coaches that will fully support your development and help you achieve your goals.
See more:
CONGRATULATIONS! LLONGYFARCHIADAU!
@Vivbuckley
is officially the best! We're very proud of you! Rydym yn falch iawn o'n Dirprwy Bennaeth!
#beallthatyoucanbe
Congratulations to our very own
@JosephBaldwin
for winning this prestigious award!!
Llongyfarchiadau mawr iawn Joe am ennill Arweinydd Ysbrydoledig y Flwyddyn!!
A big thank you to
@ItaliaContiUK
Academy who came to deliver a workshop yesterday to our
@PerformBridgend
students
We are delighted that 3 of our students have gained scholarships for the Academy’s summer school.
#beallthatyoucanbe