We’ve just been visited by a global superstar!!!
Today our music students received a surprise visit from the one and only
@edsheeran
!⭐
An incredibly inspiring opportunity all involved, as Ed spoke to our students about his journey in the industry and career so far!
@fivefootrima
@MarvelousRakan
The Sheffield College does not tolerate abuse of any kind. Please send us more details to safeguarding
@sheffcol
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📸 📸
@harriet_massey1
has been studying photography with us and heading down to
@swfc
for every home game with her camera for the last 3 years.
We love this photo, Lee Bullen loves this photo and loads of you Wednesday fans love this photo 😍
Amazing experience for Harriet!
We are delighted to announce that the overall effectiveness of The Sheffield College has been officially graded by
@Ofstednews
as ‘good’ following our inspection just before Christmas! 🎉🎉
Find out more and read the full report here:
What on earth has just happened 🎸
@Edsheeran
has just visited Hillsborough Campus and spent the afternoon with our music students, performing and collabing on a few tracks and talking industry and career experience.
A life changing afternoon.
Read more
We're proud to share that Chief Executive and Principal
@sheffcolangela
has been named in the New Year Honours List 2024.
Angela has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to further education.
Read more:
Thank you very much to the Shadow Secretary of State for Education
@AngelaRayner
for calling in to see us this afternoon to find out why we
#LoveOurColleges
so much!
Our Apprentice Florists have been showing their support at
@The_RHS
Flower Show at
@ChatsworthHouse
for British flower growers.
They used 7,000 of
@LoveOrchidsUK
orchids in their display which you can see in the Great Conservatory Orchid Dome!
For any of you have been glued to the new series of MasterChef: The Professionals, keep a close eye one of the contestants 👨🍳
Luke who is a Senior Sous-chef at Halifax Hall in Sheffield, trained with us nearly 8 years ago and is competing in tonight's heat on
@BBCOne
! Good luck!
Working and learning remotely meant a lot of leftover food in our refectories.
So it didn't go to waste, we delivered it to
@TheFoodWorksSHF
to help out people in Sheffield.
Please remember to order your food for delivery/get it dropped off if you display any symptoms ❤️
We were thrilled to welcome the newly appointed Secretary of State for Education,
@bphillipsonMP
, for her first visit to a further education college after being appointed to her new role following the change of government earlier this month.
(1/4)
@SheffColAngela
And we’re live with
@BBCr4today
and
@MishalHusain
!
Good morning everyone, thank you all for joining us today.
Later in the programme we’ll hear from
@SheffColAngela
, some of our construction apprentices and much more!
It's a big week in our catering department, starting with an announcement tomorrow!
Then, on Thursday evening, we find out whether Chef Len has won the Chef Lectuter Award at this year's
@Craft_Guild
Awards.
It's going to be some week!
Read more here
To help with the coronavirus pandemic, Engineering Tutor, Nick, has been using college 3D printers to create parts for urgently needed face masks.
Today he dropped off his first batch of mask frames for the
@NHSuk
.
Congratulations to this young lady collecting her A Level results today! 🎉 From September Phoenix is going on to study Marketing Communication and Advertising at Sheffield Hallam University 😁
#ALevelsResultsDay
We've achieved an international Google accolade for developing teaching staff’s digital skills.
We're now an accredited Google for Education Reference College for our use of Google tools in the classroom!
Find out more:
#CollegesWeek2021
@s_spence10
Big thanks to Ash-Jaya, Hope and Andrew (students from our film and journalism courses at Hillsborough) for discussing their futures with
@MishalHusain
on
@BBCr4today
this morning.
They also spoke wonderfully on the issue of climate change. Well done, guys!
#LoveOurColleges
Delivering essential IT devices to staff and students during lockdown presented a bit of a challenge.
Thankfully, our IT Systems team partnered with
@citytaxis_
for contactless deliveries, delivering 85 devices today.
Top stuff and a big thank you to
@citytaxis_
for their help!
There's not a great deal that you can say about these photos that they don't say themselves! 🌺🌺🌺
Unbelievably good work from our Level 4 Florists for
@The_RHS
at
@ChatsworthHouse
. If you're going, you're in for a treat!
#LoveOurColleges
Alongside FE colleges across the country, we are celebrating our wonderful college all week to help spread the message and campaign for fairer funding in the sector ✊
Huge thank you to our journalism students Moses and Harrison for representing the college and our support for the
@Channel4
#C4Sheffield
bid earlier.
Also great to see journalism apprentice
@annholmes_jp
reporting on the bid and catching up with the lads too!
@SheffCouncil
We're absolutely made up to let you know that we were crowned College Restaurant of the Year at last night's
@Craft_Guild
Awards 🏆
A huge well done to all of our outstanding catering and hospitality staff and students, we are so proud of everything that you have achieved!
Tomorrow we launch the first of our virtual open days! 🚀
All the same information you would expect to find at one of our open days but from the safety of your home.
We’re starting with business tomorrow with more subjects to follow throughout of May.
We're so proud of Harriet!!
After completing her photography degree with us, she's since started an impressive career path as a Sports Photographer at
@swfc
.
A fantastic story and a real inspiration for any budding photographers! ⭐
We only went and won The Employer Engagement Award – HE/FE Sector
@Educatenorth
Award last night!!
We’re absolutely thrilled to have won this award, especially as it recognises our collaborative work with employers from Sheffield and beyond prior to and during the pandemic.
Thank you very much to
@CAGames
who have very kindly donated a number of brand-new laptops to our
@ngenacademy
students.
The laptops are high performance & allow students to run specialised games industry applications whilst working remotely.
Read more:
Fascinated by the first ever moon landing? You're not going to want to miss new documentary Apollo 11,
Apollo 11 features never-before-seen archived footage, unearthed by one of our former students & Sheffield filmmaker,
@steveslater1987
.
A final huge thank you to our floristry apprentices who helped
@jpmoseley
set up his display at
@The_RHS
Flower Show at
@ChatsworthHouse
which included 7,000 British orchids.
We hope you've all had an amazing time! More photos from our floristry studio coming soon...🌸
We've received some brill updates from our chefs who are currently out in the Philippines, enjoying their prize for being crowned
@zestquestasia
2022 champions! 🌎 🍲
We've put the best bits together so you can live the incredible experiences with them - it all looks so good.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the winner of
@ZestQuestAsia
2021, Chef Oliver Herrington!! 🎉🎉
Oliver's Japanese Nagasaki Champon dish was crowned the competition winner this morning.
Congratulations, Oli, we're delighted for you!
@TildaChef
#ZestQuestAsiaTildaChallenge
Our ESOL students have the most incredible hidden talents! We have students who are doctors, lawyers and therapists who are learning English.
We even have amazing creatives like Hala! Hala makes sustainable decorations out of recycled paper which we absolutely love ❤️
The Sunshine Café 🌞 Here is a group of our inclusion students at Hillsborough campus who run a café every Wednesday. The students prepare, cook and serve soup and cake from the café. Whilst the students are cooking, the other students manage the jobs list for the day 🥕🥙🎂
57% of students at The Sheffield College live in a deprived postcode.
The Laptops For Kids campaign will go some way to ensuring that some of our students are able to access the equipment they need to be able to study from remotely.
Exciting news! Our talented catering & hospitality students are semifinalists in the
@RestaurantYoung
comp!
On March 19th at Gordon Ramsay Academy, they'll compete against 8 other teams of budding chefs.
Learn more at
I am won gold for the National category of My Life 11-18! I am truly blown away and in a state of emotion. I am so so proud of myself and how far I have come and as a journalism student winning something like this is a dream,, I am mind blown 🤩🤯!!!
#BBCYoungReporter
#LoveOurColleges
round-up! ⚡ ⚡
Finally, a big thank you to all our visitors this week for coming down to support us this week, including
@AngelaRayner
, Clive Betts MP and
@PaulBlomfieldMP
- and for supporting the launch of our Polling Station for the student elections!
Missing the
#ucasdeadline
isn't the end of your September university plans.
We've reviewed and broken down the options you still have open to you. Take a look
We are delighted that Sheffield College student Pamela Horvathova has been found safe.
We'd like to thank everyone who has supported the appeals from ourselves and
@syptweet
.
Statement:
We're joining FE colleges up & down the country to lobby the government in support of the Mind the Skills Gap campaign.
Ahead of today's
#Budget2023
announcement,
@SheffColAngela
has written to
@Jeremy_Hunt
to call for an increase in funding for technical & vocational education.
Huge congratulations to Vanessa who works with our basketball students!
Hardly a surprise they've had such a good season with such an inspirational coach 🥇 🏀
We are delighted to announce that the overall effectiveness of The Sheffield College has been officially graded by
@Ofstednews
as ‘good’ following our inspection just before Christmas! 🎉🎉
Find out more and read the full report here:
Thankfully the worst of floods seem to have passed. We hope you weren't affected too much last night! 🙏
We found these photos in our archive of the 2007 floods, where things were a lot worse than yesterday (ft. Hillsborough & the former Castle site which preceded City Campus!).
We're delighted to announce that Andrew Hartley has been appointed Deputy Chief Executive.
Andrew said: “I am delighted to take up this role and have the opportunity to further contribute to the transformational work of The Sheffield College.”
Read more:
We were crowned champions at the
@ZestQuestAsia
Finals on Friday night!!!! 👑 🥇 🎉
Massive congratulations to all the chefs involved, what an achievement (and not a bad prize to follow, either).
We are very pleased to announce a new partnership with
@UniOfHull
for some of our university level provision.
@SheffColAngela
, said: "We are delighted to be working in partnership with the University of Hull on the validation of some of our degree level qualifications."
Angela Foulkes, Chief Executive and Principal of The Sheffield College spoke to BBC 5Live yesterday about the effects that the pandemic has had on Apprenticeships and employment.
To find out what she had to say listen from 41 minutes onwards -
We’re so proud of our hair and beauty students, who have had the exciting opportunity to see their work displayed at
@SheffMuseums
as part of their new exhibition, Hair: Untold Stories.
Congratulations to all involved – what a fantastic way to celebrate the work of our students!
While we all work from home, we're launching a campaign to stay in touch with each other! We'd love for you to share your pets at home. All you have to do is tweet your photo and tag us at
@sheffcol
or alternatively emailmarketing
@sheffcol
.ac.uk.
#SheffieldStayInTouch
🐾❤️
We are thrilled to announce that our catering students have made us proud at this year's
@RestaurantYoung
Team of the Year Competition! 🎉
Not only did they win the best use of seafood competition but they also came away winners of THE UK YOUNG RESTAURANT TEAM OF THE YEAR! 🏆
HUGE congratulations to our talented catering students who have made it through to the Grand Final of the UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year 2024! What an incredible achievement.
We’ll be keeping everything crossed for team SheffCol on Wednesday 26th June for the final!
Heading to
@The_RHS
at
@ChatsworthHouse
at any point this week? Make sure you head inside the dome and take a look at our floristry Apprentices and
@jpmoseley
beautiful work! 🌸🌺
Congratulations to every single student and member of staff who has worked in
@TheSilverPlate_
this year - they've just found out they've been shortlisted for the AA College Restaurant of the Year!!
If you've been, you'll know it's hugely deserved!
#LoveOurColleges
#CROTY19
Niamh, our journalism student, has won the BBC Young Reporter Award! Niamh wrote about her family struggles and how it has affected her life at college and at home. We're so proud of Niamh for covering such a sensitive but important topic. ❤️
Earlier this year, we had a bit of a think about re-decorating our art and design corridor at Hillsborough 🎨
After talking to the art and design students about it, we couldn't think of anyone better suited to the job than them 👨🎨 👩🎨
Here's what went down...
Congratulations to
@s_spence10
for receiving a Certificate of Excellence in the Digital Innovator of the Year category of the Pearson National Teaching Awards 20.
This year, Steve has led on the development of a new innovation centre for staff.
Read more
An open letter to staff and students from Chief Executive and Principal,
@SheffColAngela
:
"I want to thank students and staff for their heroic efforts in these unprecedented circumstances."
Read the letter in full, here
@AoC_info
#LoveOurColleges
Huge thank you to everyone has signed a
#LoveOurColleges
pledge card for us this week 🙏 🙏
We'll be doing the again rounds again next week as we hope to get your support.
If you see us at your campus, your pledge matters ✊
We can't wait for everyone to see just how stunning
@The_RHS
at
@ChatsworthHouse
is going to look this year. Our floristry apprentices were down there yesterday helping set up - and in the sunshine this year!! - get down and have a look 🌺🌺
In England, colleges play a huge role educating and training 1.6m students of all ages!
At
@sheffcol
, we have around 13,500 students and Apprentices, all of whom have amazing stories and ambitions to go further in their careers.
@aoc_info
#collegesweek
#loveourcolleges
When Annette's not working at the college, she's being a absolute superstar as Yorkshire's only femal bloodbiker and delivering vital medical samples around Sheffield to support the NHS 💙 💙
Annette, we salute you!
Read more:
Today we are launching our
#SheffieldStayInTouch
campaign!
The idea is simple. We want staff, students, former students, parents, well…everyone, to come together and create an online community.
A community that shares what they’re doing, that shares recommendations and advice.
We're doing everything we can to keep you safe on campus.
If you've been asked to return to campus before the end of term, please make sure you've watched our safety video.
For the most up to date information on returning and reopening, please visit
Do not worry about the animals at our Hillsborough campus,
they have gone home with members of our animal care team and are being very well cared for.
They have plenty of supplies and we'll keep you in the loop with how they're getting on in their new surroundings 🦎🦔❤️
We’ve received delivery of our amazing badges to raise awareness of mental health amongst our students & staff.
Over the next few days you’ll find out how you can get your hands on one, and we’ll also reveal the third badge in the collection 🤐
@AoC_info
#mentalhealthmatters
Big news! ⚡ ⚡
We are very excited to be launching a
@WANdisco
Data Academy at our City Campus for students starting in September.
If you're someone who enjoys working with technology, you need to get on this!
Full details:
Ramadan Mubarak from all of us at The Sheffield College - with a special message from our ESOL Tutors 🌙
We know that your Ramadan will be very different this year but please stay safe, stay at home and follow public health guidance.
Our second finalist, Chef Oliver, has taken his inspiration from Japan and made a Nagasaki Champon! 🇯🇵
Using
@TildaChef
to make rice noodles, Oliver has tailored his menu to cater for gluten and dairy intolerances.
#zestquestasiachallenge
A super huge well done to all of our staff and students who ran the
@raceforlife
in Sheffield yesterday- you're all bloomin heroes! Nice work reppin that SheffCol swag too! 👚
Congratulations to student Shahzeb Ali Hashmi who has been awarded the Peter Roberts
@collabgrp
Bursary for outstanding achievement.
Shahzeb, who studied ESOL has been awarded a bursary £2,500 which will support him as he progresses to study Law at the University of Sheffield.
@Gei7_
@girlsbiggestfan
The Sheffield College does not tolerate abuse of any kind. Please send us more details to safeguarding
@sheffcol
.ac.uk so that we can look into this further. Thank you
What a crazy busy day for the last day of
#LoveOurColleges
Here's a quick recap of what's gone on:
1⃣ Polling for our
@ShefColSU
student elections launched at our City Campus - keep an eye out for the Polling Station making its way to you campus next week!
Three of our catering students will be heading to Michelin-starred
@NorthcoteUK
as their prize for winning 2 categories in the Young Restaurant Team of the Year competition.
Read the full story here -