This year’s Weston College Creative Arts Festival took place from 23rd May until the 21st June 2018 and provided our Offender Learning students with a fantastic opportunity to showcase their talents. The Summer Showcase took place at the College’s Loxton Campus, which ran for 8 days and was met with great reviews. There was a wide range of work on …
On Friday 15th July, Guys Marsh held a special event to celebrate their success in winning the 3/5 Maths Challenge for 2017/18. The shield was presented by representatives from the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) to Weston College management team Daniel Skelton and Isabella Franco in a special event held in the library and was attended by many of the …
HMP Guys Marsh team were delighted to be shortlisted for the final of this year’s BBC Points West Cookery Team of the Year. Nominated for their fantastic daily contributions as well as the variety of projects they are involved in, the team were visited by the BBC cameras in early June to film a slot for BBC Points West news …
Weston College recognise the need to continually promote literacy within all our education departments, particularly in light of the often low levels of reading ability that we encounter in prisons. At HMP Guys Marsh the team continue to lead the way under the stewardship of ACM Isabella Franco, promoting the literacy opportunities for prisoners through the Library and Learning Resource …
Following the huge success of the inaugural literary festival at HMP Erlestoke in 2017, planning began almost instantly to provide an even bigger and better version the following year. So it was after months of preparation from our prisoner co-ordination council, support from the prison team and the Arts Council and lots of hard work from the Weston staff, our …
Weston College continue to expand their delivery in prison education by now embracing the principles of mindfulness to support learners and staff. Recognising the importance of well-being for learners, particularly in helping enable them to engage with learning, Weston College has developed a unique pilot programme at HMP Dartmoor. Following research by The Association for Mindfulness in Education which found …
Weston College expands offender learning delivery to include teacher training. Having successfully delivered teacher training qualifications for our own staff teaching in prisons, Weston College OLS has now expanded its delivery to include both prison service instructors and prisoners. Having secured funding from the Education training Foundation, Weston first piloted delivery of the Award in Education and Training to prison …
A great success On March 20th, Weston College organised another successful employers day at HMP Channings Wood. The objective of this full day event was to help men in custody back into employment upon their release. This is the fourth such event at Channings Wood and it was the most successful to date with both the men and the companies …
Weston College has received the Association of Colleges’ Beacon Award for Widening Participation in Learning, sponsored by Gateway Qualifications, at a ceremony in HMYOI Portland. Guests were welcomed by Dr Paul Phillips CBE, Principal and Chief Executive of the Weston College Group and Steve Hodson, Governor, HMYOI Portland. The Beacon Award for Widening Participation in Education is open to all …
Offploy is a Community Interest Company with a social mission to help radically alter the perceptions of UK Industry about what it means to employ people with convictions. Already operating in a multi-regional capacity around the UK, Offploy have recently entered into partnership with Weston College Offender Learning Services, with the intention to make a sizeable impact on the reduction …
