We fully support
@AndyBurnhamGM
and
@JamesFrith
in their fight to save
#BuryFC
which has such an amazing community presence. We are all rooting for a positive outcome today.
College update, Thursday 1st March. The college is open today to support those who have already set off. However if you haven’t already started your journey or it is unsafe to travel please remain at home.
Spotted anything new at the Frigate in
#Whitefield
? Our
#Art
and
#Design
students have been hard at work creating a mural to celebrate the pub reopening. This was digitally designed by Molly Barton, and painted onto the wall by a group of students over three days. Well done!
We're so proud of all our current & former Health Cadets who have completed their training and secured careers within the NHS and other care related roles.
We appreciate the work you do & that’s why the Bury College community will be clapping for our carers again this evening.👏
Oh deer! We had an early enroller at Bury College this morning!
A beautiful deer was discovered by staff in one of our car parks earlier today! We are pleased to report that they were well looked after and safely released back into the wild.
Our Dental Nursing Apprenticeship is helping to train the Dental practitioners of the future.
Today, our apprentices had the opportunity to speak with
@Keir_Starmer
about what inspired them to get into this industry and their overall career aspirations.
@UKLabour
A huge thank you to Manchester City commentator, podcaster and author
@IanCheeseman
for visiting our Sports students and providing them with a unique insight into the industry. A special thanks to
@CharlesLouisHomes
for supporting.
It's
#999day
! The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service have arrived on campus to visit our Public Services students. These Manchester firefighters are offering students a tour of the fire engine and talking to them about the importance of the emergency services.
#999DayUK
Phoebe McEwen
Former School: Bury Church of England High School
Results: English Language A*, French A*, History A*
Destination:
@LancasterUni
to study French and German Studies
We are so proud of you Phoebe!
#ResultsDay2019
#PostiveFutures
Taking a moment to give special thanks to the
@Bury_College
Moving On Group (Foundation Studies). These students have been volunteering with us since September and have been instrumental to supporting the ELR's activities.
Thanks once again, your support has been invaluable!
Today our Sports students were visited by legendary Manchester City commentator, podcaster and author, Ian Cheeseman, who provided our learners with a unique insight into the different career opportunities available within the industry.
Thanks for visiting
@IanCheeseman
!
It’s not only us who are extremely proud of our talented and hard-working students! Thanks to
@JamesFrith
for this letter of recognition to one of our top Carpentry and Joinery students who achieved second place in this year’s Skill Build competition.
It was wonderful to welcome
@SalfordUni
to Bury College today to talk all things Adult Nursing! It was also great to welcome back former Bury College and University of Salford students Rob and Lucy, who are now fully qualified and working in industry. We are so proud of you!
Yesterday,
@SalfordUni
Nursing students had their first session at the Bury College Health and Digital Centre.
They are undertaking the first year of their Degrees here and will be utilising our state-of-the-art facilities that includes a simulated hospital ward.
The staff at Bury College are right behind our carers!
We are so proud to show our support every week as we
#ClapForOurCarers
and thank all the amazing NHS staff, frontline and key workers and all those in supporting roles.
We are so grateful!
Our first year School of Performance have been asked to sing
#Christmas
songs as part of a Santa train experience at the East Lancashire Railway in
#Bury
.
We're loving the Christmas jumpers! 🎅🤶
We are so proud of so many of our former students who have secured meaningful careers working within our National Health Service.
So staff and students, please join us at 8pm tonight as we take to our doorsteps, gardens, windows and balconies to clap for the NHS.
👏👏👏
Juliette Pemberton from Stretford Fire Station visited our Public Services Department today, to give a talk on firefighting and rescue as a career for women. Our students even got to try on some of her kit!
Our first year Performing Arts students went to
@53two
for a workshop & performance. The workshop was run by the Actor & Director, Simon Naylor and Daniel Brennan (Director of “Little Boxes). Joann Condon (Actor) & Leonie Rachel (Producer) were also there to offer their insights.
Our Plastering students have been hard at work helping to restore the East Lancs Paper Mill Cricket Club following recent fire damage.
A huge thank you to the Construction department for generously donating their time, tools and materials to such a worthy community initiative!
Exciting news 🎉
We are exceptionally proud to announce that we have scooped the Silver Award in BTEC College of the Year 2020!
These inspirational awards celebrate outstanding achievements and we are delighted to have been recognised.
#BTECAwards2020
The Mayor of Bury visited Bury College Public Services students at The Rock yesterday as they raised money for the 2019 Poppy Appeal.
Well done to our committed Public Services students who have taken part in a range of community and college-wide fundraising initiatives!
Congratulations to our former student
@ImLewisEllis
who has made it through to the final 5 on
#TheApprentice
2019!
Our students and budding entrepreneurs have been left feeling so inspired since your visit.
We’re all routing for you to make the final!
This Friday is
#WellbeingDay
for all Bury College staff and students!
College is closing and we are asking everyone to use that day to practice self-care – Self-care is an important way to boost and maintain both emotional and physical health and wellbeing.
We are proud to share an amazing story of Business student Anuj Puri who during the lockdown has been volunteering at ‘Feed My City - Feedline Manchester’, an organisation which has been providing fresh hot meals to those in need.
Wow – fantastic work Anuj!
Congratulations to former Bury College Engineering student Sam Ellithorn who has accepted a Higher Level Civil Engineering Apprenticeship at the University of Salford and will be completing this with Cheetham Hill Construction Limited.
Congratulations Sam!
We were delighted to welcome Michelle Donelan, Minister for Higher and Further Education, and James Daly MP to Bury College last week.
Find out more about their visit here:
From Bury College to The Boardroom!
We were delighted to welcome current BBC
#TheApprentice
star Lewis Ellis to Bury College where he chatted to Business students about his career success.
Read all about the visit here:
Huge congratulations to A Level student Jake Cardwell who is off to the University of York to study a Masters in Physics after achieving:
Physics – A
Mathematics – A
Further Mathematics – A
Well done Jake!
We were delighted to welcome Bury MPs James Daly MP and Christian Wakeford, along with Gillian Keegan MP, Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, to talk about all the exciting developments regarding the brand-new T Levels at Bury College.
A huge well done to the Bury College community for doing their bit to raise money and awareness for important national events over recent weeks!
Read our round-up story here:
Six ambitious individuals have signed apprenticeship contracts with leading Manchester-based brewery JW Lees!
Good luck to our student chefs who will now be working towards fulfilling their career ambitions.
Read the full story here:
Our
#Travel
and
#Tourism
students have received glowing reviews on Trip Advisor after impressing members of the general public who were on-board the East Lancashire Railway Santa Specials train.
Great work guys! Read the full story here:
We were so proud to attend the Parliamentary Reception following our award win at the Festival of Learning ceremony! Parliamentarians from both the House of Commons and House of Lords and many people who work in the adult learning and skills sector enjoyed the special event.
As part of LGBT History month our Bury College Pride Club are selling cakes in the upper vista of the Millennium centre with all proceeds going to '
@Mermaids_Gender
' a charity that supports trans youth.
Happy
#InternationalNursesDay
Today we show our appreciation and celebrate the resilience, dedication and tireless efforts of our nurses.
We are extremely proud of all our students who have progressed onto further training or achieved ambitions of a career in nursing.
Good luck to everyone collecting their
#GCSE
results this morning! We are looking forward to seeing everyone at their enrolment appointments over the next few days.
Congratulations to Lilian Anderson who has achieved:
Biology A*
Psychology A*
Chemistry A
The former Mount St Joseph pupil is now off to The University of Manchester to study Zoology.
Amazing news! We are so proud of you.
Our student governors visited Bury town centre to place a wreath on behalf of all of us at Bury College to remember and honour all of our those who were affected by war.
#lestweforget2020
A huge thank you to all our wonderful staff and students for making the first week back at College such a success!
This week we have completed over 3800 COVID-19 tests and it has been great to see everyone wearing their masks and keeping each other safe.
We had an fantastic time hosting the
#Health
and
#Childcare
GMCG Skills event yesterday! We're so proud of the amazing work done by each and every student involved. Congratulations!
#GMCGSkillsComps2022
Meet just some of the amazing staff at Bury College who support our students all year round!
We are so proud to be coming together as a community to show our support for World
#NationalAutismWeek
and raising awareness.
On VE Day let’s celebrate the heroes amongst us right now.
We are so proud of our former Health and Social Care Cadets who have progressed onto university and are on their way to achieving life changing careers:
We are delighted to welcome The Manchester College Oldham College Hopwood Hall College Wigan & Leigh College Bolton College Tameside College Pendleton Sixth Form College into Bury College today for the Music & Performing Arts sections of the Greater Manchester Skills Competition.
Congratulations to our amazing Performing Arts students!
From life changing scholarships at some of the top theatre institutions to securing places at leading universities – we are so proud of the class of 2020.
11 Bury College staff members have taken on the challenge of the
#Cycle300
. Each member of staff will be cycling 300 miles in one month to support Cancer Research UK! 🚴♂️
If you would like to show your support please visit their fundraising page here:
Apprentice Ben is making a big impression in a primary school office with his positive ‘can-do-attitude’ and implementing a range of new IT systems.
Amazing work Ben!
#NAW2020
#FireItUp
#LookBeyond
College update, Thursday 1st March, 10.30pm. We anticipate that the college will be open as normal tomorrow (Friday 2nd March), however we will evaluate the situation overnight and further update in the morning.
We can now advise that the student who was taken ill today was treated by paramedics who identified that the student did not have symptoms of coronavirus. (1/2)
A former Bury College A-level student is now a celebrated author and believes his time here played a big part in this journey.
@MattCainWriter
Read about Matt Cain's inspiring journey as an author here -
Thank you to the Festival of Learning for giving us the opportunity to visit the Parliamentary Reception in London!
This provided the college with an opportunity to talk about No Barriers and its impact on the most hard to reach communities in Bury.
#LoveOurCollege
Week 2019 ended with a visit from local MP James Frith who spoke to Bury College staff and School of Performance students about college life!
Thank you for visiting and showing your support
#LoveOurColleges
@aoc_info
@JamesFrith
It’s the first day back after the Easter break and we are looking forward to a positive and
#MotivationalMonday
Let’s look ahead, be productive and continue to work towards achieving our goals!
We would like to say a huge thank you to Councillors Tamoor Tariq & Ummrana Farooq for visiting our Foundation Studies students! The students were delighted that the Councillors were able to share more about what they do in their job roles and answer their questions.
A huge congratulations to all our students receiving their results today! Your hard work and dedication has paid off, and we wish you the best of luck for your next steps.
Our amazing Foundation Studies students have been writing letters to send to residents living at a local nursing home.
Such a thoughtful idea – well done everyone!
Bury MP
@JamesFrith
spent time with the Bury College No Barriers project meeting beneficiaries at The Attic Project, Russell Street in Bury.
It was great to see him meeting so many people who are benefiting from such a worthy project at the Job Club.
We're blown away by the amazing talent on display at todays
#GMCGSkillsComps2022
!
Here is a sneak peek into the Childcare skills test, currently being taken on by
@hopwoodhall
. Good luck!
Falinge Park High School, The Albion Academy and The Co-operative Academy of Manchester attended an
#Art
workshop last week expertly run by our own Art students.
The Bury College End of Year Art Show is now live! 👏
Click the link below to explore our virtual gallery and view the amazing Artwork on display created by our talented students. 🖌
Thank you to everyone at
@openawards
for this amazing video! We are so proud of Access student David Phiri who won a national award which celebrates outstanding academic achievements.
Today should've been
@Bury_College
student David Phiri's award ceremony at The Palace of Westminster but because of the lockdown, it won't be happening. So we have made a little video to say
#Congratulations
to David on his amazing achievement! Well Done & Enjoy!!! 💯 🎉 🏅
Congratulations to Bury Grammar School Girls, Wardle Academy and Oulder Hill Community School for coming within the top 3 today during the Bury College Maths Challenge! Well done!
We've hidden 22 bees on campus today in commemoration of the Manchester Arena bomb last year. If you find one tweet at us with a selfie using the
#bcbees22
! Good luck!