Published Fortnightly - Issue: 153 Edited by: Jenny Mitchell, Mike Pink, Caroline Ponto & Helen Ward Friday 14th October 2011

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Best of British

Last week, WorldSkills London 2011 saw 1000 young, skilled professionals from over 52 countries compete to be named the best of the best in their chosen skill. The nail-biting competition was watched by 150,000 visitors, and is the largest international skills competition in the world. This was the 41st WorldSkills competition and the third time it has been hosted in the UK. It is also the third time we have had students competing!

The Friday prior to the event, Olympic 100 metre relay gold medallist, Jason Gardener MBE, offered words of wisdom to Team UK as they sailed along the Thames towards ExCeL London. He swapped training techniques with the medal hopefuls who have spent the last eighteen months completing an intensive training programme, aimed at developing their technical skills and preparing them for

the demands of competition. As the Team UK ambassador and former Olympic gold medallist, Jason said, Representing your country on the world stage is an incredibly daunting task. Each member of Team UK has put in the same amount of training and dedication as any athlete taking part in a sporting competition, and I hope that the whole of the UK gets behind them for WorldSkills London 2011 like they would for any big sports event. We are very proud that former Chichester College student Chris Wallis was chosen to be part of Team UK competing in the Cabinet Making competition. Christian Notley, his mentor, can testify to the hours of dedicated training Chris put in to prepare himself for the competition. The competition was tough for all competitors with Chris competing against Chinese, Australian, Korean, German, American and competitors from many other countries. Despite being fully on view and

Chris Wallis in action for Team UK

Chris at the Team UK send off reception

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Forensic Science students showcase at WorldSkills

2being constantly watched by the competition judges and hordes of public visitors Chris remained focussed and composed following his plan. Sadly, Friday was a blip day, which affected Chriss overall score and meant he missed out on the medal but his work was excellent and he was a great Ambassador for the College.

The last WorldSkills competition was held in Calgary, Canada where ex Furniture student and now part-time lecturer, Luke Griffiths, also represented the UK. Luke has remained involved with UK and WorldSkills as an Ambassador and as such was asked to show various people around the event, including Cabinet Ministers, Vince Cable and John Hayes. Luke says: I got a tremendous amount from my experience in Calgary and Chris (Wallis) will never forget his experience here. To be chosen to represent your country and compete at the highest level in your skills is really amazing and Chris has done us proud.

The astonishing venue of ExCel London has over 90,000m2 of space, the equivalent of ten Wembley Stadium pitches, and it was truly amazing to behold so much young talent under one roof across such an array of subject areas. Every community and business in the UK thrives on skills, enterprise and inspiration. Hopefully, WorldSkills London 2011 will be the catalyst that sparks the ambitions of people across the country.

Skills including landscaping gardening, mobile robotics, aircraft maintenance, cabinetmaking,

stonemasonry, bricklaying, cooking and fashion technology, were showcased, with many areas offering have a go workshops. Our own Mark Nason and Elaine Johnston from Science put a huge amount of effort into their have a go showcase when they set up a crime scene (re-using some of the old astro pitch turf as grass) a forensic laboratory, finger printing and digital keyring service. Visitors who successfully had a go were rewarded with keyrings or fuzzy bugs with the words CSI Chi, I solved the crime these went like hot cakes.

Horticulture staff and students reconstructed the Gold medal winning South of England garden as part of the Landscape Gardening area, and Furniture students displayed their work and helped visitors learn the skills needed to make a chair. All in all the College was very well represented with Hair & Beauty, Science, Horticulture and Construction students all visiting during the event.

Brathay Trust, a charity which has mentored and developed Team UK, believes, Competition raises the standard of skills to an international benchmark, improving job prospects for young people. The aggressive nature of competition prepares young people for the real world of work.

This event challenges the sometimes negative image of this age group, particularly following the recent riots, and WorldSkills London 2011 aims to help create a lasting legacy in the UK, where the awareness and perception of vocational education and skills will undergo a positive change.

Professor Lorna Unwin, chair in vocational education and deputy director of the ESRC research centre, evaluated, Emphasis on

HE has distracted from vocational education, but university fees have returned the focus to apprenticeships, of which the government are very supportive, according to the National Apprenticeship Service. Many of those chosen to compete in this years competition are apprentices.

16,000 people attended the Closing Ceremony at O2, Sunday evening, 9th October, including Chris family, lecturers and representatives from our own senior management team. The Big Farewell party, to send all competitors home in style, followed this spectacular celebration.

Principal Shelagh Legrave said, It was a huge honour to have a student representing the UK from Chichester and he did fantastically well. This is a fantastic way to boost the confidence of our students, as well as show the world what a quality institution we are a part of. I urge any department that can compete to find out about local feeder competitions and get involved!

Chris did us proud, proclaimed lecturer and mentor, Christian Notley, he narrowly missed out on a Medallion of Excellence, which he was very disappointed about. He did really well just to get into Team UK, and despite his disappointment it has been of huge personal benefit. Well done, Chris!

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The reconstructed South of England Show garden

The Forensic Science CSI Chi WorldSkills showcase team

Visitors have a go at the Furniture stand at WorldSkills

The crime scene

3After seeing one of my machines at the college Bike Show in June, I was contacted by a journalist from Classic Bike magazine, the largest selling magazine of its type, who wanted to do an article on one of my bikes. Its going to be the lead story in the magazine, so will cover five pages and the front cover, and I brought the bike in from Southampton to prepare it.

The motorcycle is a British made Rickman, built in 1976, fitted with a supercharged Kawasaki engine, producing about 280hp. I used to drag race the bike throughout Europe and held the No 2 plate in the British Championship on two occasions.

The bike can go from 0-60mph in about 3 seconds and approaches 160mph in 9 seconds, recording a top speed at the

Bruntingthorpe test track in Leicester of 205mph. The bike has now been returned to a road-legal state, although it is still in the same state of tune as when raced!

The photographer covering the story drove all the way down from Peterborough and the reporter came from Brighton on an original

Kawasaki Z1 motorcycle. They wanted to see the workshops and took photos of some Level 3 students working on classic bikes.

It all took a lot longer than I thought; 1.5 hours to get the bike from all angles, but when I took the bodywork off so they could see the works, they were open-mouthed and it took over another hour to photograph that!

The reporter and photographer were at the college all afternoon, which also included a staged street scene session in West Street. They also took motion shots on the college approach road, which we hope didnt annoy too many people with the noise, as the bike did keep setting all the car alarms off in the visitors car park! The article will probably be in the January issue of Classic Bike so look for it. Its great publicity for the Motorcycle area at the college.

Peter Scott Lecturer in Motorcycle

Kawasy Riding

Open Evening is a Massive SuccessTuesday evening saw the busiest Open Evening we have ever had. This followed an equally successful evening at Brinsbury last week.

This year a number of areas included have a go sessions and had most, if not all, of their staff on duty reflecting a huge effort and the importance staff now attach to Open Evenings.

Hospitality students cooked up a delicious stir fry for visitors to try and although not a visitor I did have to try it when offered a pot and it was yummy! One member of staff commented on how the smell wafted deliciously down the corridor drawing you to it.

Engineering ran a couple of have a go sessions in welding and soldering, CAD/CAM rooms were in full operation too. These proved so popular as did the motor vehicle and motor cycle workshops that some of these staff didnt have time to use their refreshment vouchers.

Other activities included sketchbook making in Art and painting and decorating demos.

A-levels had huge queues of people waiting for Helen Loftuss talks which ran continuously through the evening. Lisa Humphries offered a Life outside the classroom talk based in the SU to show off the new facilities.

One group of people who made an enormous contribution to the evening who must be

mentioned are the student helpers. Students were in almost every area from Performing Arts to Sport & PS from Construction & Engineering to Hair & Beauty. I could go on but essentially we really value their input. Particular thanks to Juliet Littlechilds Tourisms students and Dianne Jacksons Hospitality students as well as Woodlands residents and four Art & Design students who were fantastic at guiding students across college demonstrating excellent customer service skills and being great ambassadors for their courses and the college. Thanks also to our Tour Guide Co-ordinators this was the first time we had used this method of organising the Guides and it worked fantastically well thanks to the enthusiasm and help given by Nicola Evans, Sophie Murray (Student Tutoring), Elaine Myers and Helen Manuel (Admissions), Trudy Baxter (Exec office) and Jenny Mitchell, Jane Sumner and Cherise Loveday (Marketing) and Lisa Humphries for keeping a base in the Union and Juliet Littlechild for her help from College Travel.

We have had feedback from members of staff who have visited other colleges open evenings and although our evening was brilliant it does appear there are some things we can still improve on. Please tell us your stories, whether they are things we did well or things that we can do better as we always seek to give our

prospective students and their parents the best possible experience we can so we are their number one choice.

Thank you to all who helped during the two open evenings at Chichester and Brinsbury campuses.

Helen Ward Head of Marketing & Admissions

Alumni Gardener VisitLocal garden designer, Alex Bell, visited the IF Horticulture students last week to run a workshop on garden design. Alex, who is a former student of Chichester College, has won a host of medals for his work, including gold at the Malvern Show.

Alex spent the morning working with the students to come up with a design for a new garden they are creating on the Brinsbury Campus. The students investigated different types of materials and plants and incorporated these into a final design for the project. They now plan to spend the next six months constructing and planting up the garden.

Steve Millam CTM Horticulture

Travel & Tourism Customer Service students ready to guide at Open Evening

Peter shows off his vintage bike

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Chichester is now a Peter Jones Enterprise Academy (PJEA) approved college partner. This is the UKs first non-profit educational institution dedicated to teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship and is based on the Dragons Den stars vision of a centre of excellence for developing enterprise skills.

Following events held over the summer by our business lecturers and special guests which offered prospective students a platform to Pitch for a Place on the exciting new course, a team of lucky students are now studying for a pioneering BTEC Diploma in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. The course is backed nationally by top companies including Orange and Grant Thornton, who will provide coaches and mentors.

Theyll work on real life business challenges such as the Enterprising Emsworth project, and take part in master-classes and workshops as they study for either a Level 2 or Level 3 qualification. Part of the Level 3 qualification will see students setting up their own real businesses and pitching for investment from local business angels.

Peter Jones CBE said, 2011 marks a very important year for our Enterprise Academy. Not only does this really begin to expand our nationwide presence, I am delighted that it will also enable hundreds of budding entrepreneurs across the UK to develop the skills and hands-on experience needed to embark on a successful entrepreneurial future.

We are in what the Prime Minister has called the UKs most entrepreneurial decade. I believe that now is a critical time to engage and inspire our future entrepreneurs. To ensure this, we must nurture and support entrepreneurial talent in our young people and the National Enterprise Academy, with the support of our commissioned college partners, is at the heart of this endeavour.

College principal, Shelagh Legrave, says, Developing entrepreneurs and enterprise skills in young people is critical to the future success of the local economy. This course enables us to offer young people a unique opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial skills.

Chichester College met with the Emsworth Business Association recently to identify how they can help improve Emsworths competitiveness and increase visitor numbers.

Tara Lovejoy, business enterprise manager, coincidently an Emsworth resident, and course leader, Sandy Hood, will be developing a strategy to identify how Emsworth can promote itself as an excellent place to live, visit and conduct business.

In September, the Peter Jones Enterprise Academys (PJEA) new entrepreneurs carried out surveys and interviews with local businesses, visitors and residents to find out what they think about Emsworths potential.

Tara Lovejoy said, This is an excellent opportunity for local businesses to benefit from creative ideas and identify how Emsworth can

become more competitive in the long-term. Emsworth is a fantastic place to live, and as a resident I would strongly like to retain and build upon its character in a positive way for the community. This is an exciting real-life project where our students can apply their entrepreneurial skills towards an important community project over the coming year.

Emsworth is a vibrant small town with many family run specialist retail shops, a thriving food economy exemplified by the many successful restaurants, cafes and public houses as well as a range of service and manufacturing businesses.

The outcomes of the Enterprising Emsworth project will not be known until later in the year, but it is anticipated that the work of the students from Chichester College will provide invaluable help in developing the associations aims of supporting businesses and promoting Emsworth.

Earlier this month, the students presented their feedback to the Emsworth Business Association regarding the Enterprising Emsworth project and there was a strong turnout from local businesses.

Key findings were that residents and visitors loved Emsworth, particularly its scenery and character. There was strong demand to re-introduce the Emsworth Food Festival, but on a smaller scale, and a more proactive presence of the Emsworth Business Association in supporting and networking with local Emsworth businesses.

Tara added, The demographic has changed in Emsworth over the last few years, with younger families increasing, providing good opportunities to target this newer market. The PJEA students presented and debated in a professional manner, with genuine appreciation for all their hard work from the Emsworth business community.

Get to Know Peter Jones Enterprise Academy at Chichester College

Enterprising Emsworth

The PJEAs first three guest speakers offered some good tips and advice for our potential entrepreneurs that the Business team would like to share with all our enterprising students and staff:

Mark Barber, business incubation manager, University of Chichester

Mark is a specialist in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and has extensive experience advising SMEs (small and medium enterprises). Mark is now managing the universitys new business incubation centre where business start-ups can occupy small business space while getting specialist support to grow their businesses. Mark discussed what our entrepreneurs should protect and how to go about it ie copyright, patents, trademarks etc. Marks top tips include:

Identify early on what protection you need to secure patents take time and money Use a confidentiality agreement for your first business meeting with a client or supplier (see IPR website for templates) Search the www.ipr.com website for patents

(innovation), registered designs (shape), trademarks (graphics), domain names (no infringement on trademarks), copyright Date and time ALL work and save within a secure online site Use a Patent Attorney to complete patent applications Consider whether you want a global patent or in a specific country Start the patent process once youve developed your product as you only have 1 year to realise the product once your patent is filed

Ali Golds, founder, Operation Enterprise

Ali has set up a number of businesses and was keen to discuss how to stay motivated with pushing your business ideas forward. She gave advice on how to be successful and what to avoid. Ali provides Enterprise Clubs to young students who have business ideas, but need mentoring to implement them. Alis top tips include:

Look for gaps in the market Be brave and dont be afraid to try something Failure is part of being successful Plan and do your market research

Look after your customers Building a network can help develop your business ideas Be conservative with your financial estimates Motivation is key to driving your business idea forward

Helen Pattinson, co-founder, Montezumas

Helen discussed how Montezuma has been successful and the entrepreneurial journey to their successful chain of chocolate outlets. Montezuma is a family run business that manufactures high quality chocolate, is innovative in its flavours and creative in its branding. Helens top tips include:

Position yourself in the marketplace where do you fit amongst your competitors? Identify how youre going to target your market Be passionate about your business and core values make it personal Manage your cash-flow Choose supply chains that complement your USP (unique selling point) and core values Experiment with your products and services

Top Tips for Biz from Recent Guests

Getting the local residents viewsPeter Jones students working on the Enterprising Emsworth project

PJEA students in their new base room

6Calling all aspiring photographers, graphic designers, journalists and bloggers! DJS will be meeting weekly to work on the Student Voice Blog. Join us and be part of this exciting new venture.

Wednesdays (term-time only) 2 - 2.30pm Mac Media Suite E11

First meeting Wednesday, 26th October, after half-term.

Digital Journalists Society (DJS) Staff IncentiveEarn 25.00 just by bringing in Apprenticeship business to the college!

Become an ambassador for Workforce Skills wherever you go, whoever you speak to. If friends, relatives or colleagues are employers who have 16-18 year olds working for them for 30 hours a week or more, they can become an apprentice and earn while they learn.

There is NO charge to the employer and their young staff will benefit from high quality flexible training, thus increasing the skills of their staff for the future. To find out more call or contact Sue Garman on extension 2153.

Sue Garman Head of Workforce Skills Sales

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Please encourage your students to participate as this is great work experience and showcasing opportunity.

7Moon Bear MagicWendy Swaffer, lecturer in Animal Care, is sponsoring a moon bear this year, and her tutor group, Moon Bears, will be getting involved and learning lots of moon bear facts.

Wendy explains, I have sponsored a moon bear called Banjo from Animals Asia (a Hong Kong-based charity dedicated to ending cruelty and restoring respect for all animals in Asia). All their bears have been rescued from bear bile farms.

Animal Care always name their groups and I thought it would be nice to make the group name meaningful hence befriending Banjo. We have bear info up in our base classroom and every week I tell them a bear fact or bear joke, to remind them about Banjo.

Staff and students attended the South of England Autumn Show at Ardingly on Sunday, October 2nd in the hope of clinching awards in the student assignments category. The team were victorious, taking four prizes.

The successful students were: Natasha Mawson (left), Foundation Programmes, who won 1st prize for her project on adders Joel Packham (right), Foundation Programmes, 2nd prize for his project on barn owls Chris Letchford (left), Level 3 Countryside Management, 2nd prize for his assignment on trees Jenny Lawes (right), Extended Diploma in Equine, 4th prize for her assignment on equine anatomy

Congratulations to all who competed.

Jan Dougharty Brinsbury Campus & Events Co-ordinator

Autumn Achievements

Happy HeifersThe Agriculture show team attended the West Grinstead Show on Saturday, 17th September. The classes we entered were for heifers born on or after 1st April 2010 with two of our animals, which came in 1st and 2nd. The 1st placed animal went on to become reserve champion in all of the dairy classes.

The other class was heifer in calf, where we came 3rd. Well done to George Owen, Level 3, and George Felton, Level 2, Agriculture. The two students showed the cattle with pride and were talking to the public for the whole day about the course they are on, and the other courses that the college offers.

Doug Walters Advanced Practitioner in Horticulture and Countryside & Creative Crafts

For the second year running Lianne Grogan, lecturer in Hospitality (Events), organised a small group of staff and a bigger group of Events & Hospitality students to work at Leefest, a music and arts festival in Essex.

Here are some excerpts from a letter from Andy Denny, operations manager, www.leefest.org.uk, sent to Lianne, who is extremely proud of her students and the example they have set of Chichester College. She should be proud of herself too.

To put it simply, we could not do it without you. It really is the truth, you make it so easy for us, and the help your students offer is priceless. From the very beginning when I came to visit the students, they were all very excited and

really showed great enthusiasm. As soon as you arrived on site, it lifted our spirits, and gave everyone a boost they needed. With spirits raised by yourself and your students, the mood really passed onto our guests, and they got them in the mood for a festival.

Having a front line like Chichester College working with us is invaluable, and we really appreciate everything they do. Seeing the students just once a year means I get a very clear view on how they have developed. The students who came last year have improved so much, and grown in confidence. I can see a number of event staff, and even more event managers in the making!

On behalf of the whole team, we would like to say a MASSIVE MASSIVE thank you to all the students and staff, but in particular to you, Lianne. I know how much hard work it is arranging students to come to the event and you really are a fantastic member of staff. This was mentioned in our team meeting, and we compared you with a teacher which all five of us were taught by, and we really cannot praise you enough. You are an inspiration to the students, and an inspiration to us. We really cannot thank you enough.

Praise indeed, well done to Lianne and her students and accompanying staff members, Juliet Littlechild and Jamie Bunce.

Leefest Praise

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Following the recent investment in resurfacing the astroturf pitch and improving its floodlighting, Chichester College has renewed its long-term relationship with Chichester Hockey Club.

Hockey Club chairman, Simon Palmer, handed over a cheque for 30,000 to principal, Shelagh Legrave, which has secured the clubs use of the college pitch for their Saturday games over the next 10 years.

Simon said, We are delighted to be forging a long term partnership between the college and the community.

The club and college are looking to further strengthen their links by forming a Hockey Academy, to attract hockey players to Chichester College and develop local hockey talent by sharing resources.

The money was raised by the clubs fundraising event, The Real Ale and Jazz Festival (RAJF), which takes place in Priory Park every July. RAJF chairman, Rob Pywell, commented that it was important for volunteers and customers of the festival to know that there was a tangible outcome from the event, with the local community benefitting from everyones hard work.

The Hockey Club fields teams from under 8s, through to veterans, with nine mens and five ladies sides all playing league hockey on a Saturday, and junior teams playing on Sunday mornings.

Without the colleges support it would be difficult to find all the pitch time we need for these games, Simon continued, It is my aim to see the club develop strongly at top level, while retaining the social side of the game. It is important that we provide the opportunity for everyone to enjoy hockey at their own level.

Chichester Hockey Club is based in Priory Park, with its games played across the city. The Mens 1st XI play in the South Hockey Premier League Division 1, the Ladies 1st XI in the South Clubs Hockey League.

If anyone is interested in joining the Club, further information can be found at:www.chichesterhockey.com

More details of the Real Ale and Jazz Festival can be found at:www.chichester-rajf.com

Mark Bonar Lecturer in Sport

Astro-nomical Contract

Recent Sports Results

Date Fixture Result Coach

Mon 3 Oct Hockey V Chi Uni Won 4-1 Jim Drury

Tue 4 Oct Hockey V PGS (Ladies) Lost 2-1 Jim Drury

Wed 5 Oct Hockey V Barton Peveril Won 5-0 Jim Drury

Football V Brighton (Ladies Academy)

Lost 4-0 Paul Hinshelwood

Football V Horsham (Ladies 1st Team)

Won 4-2 Matt Wright

Football V Bishop Luffa (Mens 2nd Team)

Lost 6-2 Paul Atkinson

Rugby V Steyning Won 24-10 Rob Lawrence & Mark Bonar

Welcome to Our New StartersKerry Dobb Learning Assistant

Colm OGallachoir Lecturer in Blacksmithing

Lucy Curran Apprentice

Ruth Richardson Associate Lecturer

Alexander Todd Technician in Biology

Rose Allaway Functional Skills Coach

VacancyAdministrative Assistant Closes on 11/11/2011

For more information about vacancies at the College, please visit the Staff Intranet or the main College website.

Outlook CalendarIt can be really be useful to let colleagues see your calendar and its very easy to set up:

Open Outlook Go to Tools Select OptionsFrom the Options menu select the Delegates tab. Click on the Add button to find and select your colleague.

The Delegate Permissions window will open. All you then do is select the permissions to give your colleague.

How will they know they have permission?

There is an option to automatically inform the delegate. Just tick the check box at the foot of the Delegate Permissions window.

eSafety Tip of the Week If you need to report an incident or you would like any advice or guidance there is a dedicated email address for any safeguarding issue:

staysafe@chichester.ac.uk

It is continually monitored and is only accessible to authorised members of the safeguarding team.

Is there a number I may call instead?

Yes. For quick attention the extension number is 555. Your call will go through to Reception and they will re-route you on to the duty Safeguarding Officer.

ILT Tip of the Week

Goodbye old astro pitch, hello new