Student Zone

Please can all students complete the below survey. The code you need to enter is your student number without the ‘s’.

Make sure you take time out to take care of your Mental Health & Wellbeing. We have the Fika app available to all students.

You can find more information on our Mental Health & Wellbeing page.

Click on the Portal and the Mental Health & Wellbeing link

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We would like to ask you how you use technology to support your learning, so we can support you better. This should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete.

All the questions are optional, but please help us improve by answering as many as you can. Your answers are submitted when you click FINISH on the last page.

In replying to the survey please can you focus on your experiences in the last two weeks.

https://insights2021.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ncg-fe-student-202021-insight-survey

February marks LGBT History month. We have collected together some useful links and resources for your information be sure to check them out!

LGBT History month – The website below has lots of videos and resources on LGBT history, individuals from the past as well as videos from individuals from today.

Why do we use the rainbow as a symbol of LGBT equality?

“Rainbow flags tend to be used as a sign of a new era, of hope, or of social change”. Rainbow flags have been used in many places over the centuries: in the German Peasants’ War in the 16th century, as a symbol of the Cooperative movement; as a symbol of peace, especially in Italy; to represent the Tawantin Suyu, or Inca territory, mainly in Peru and Bolivia; by some Druze communities in the Middle east; by the Jewish Autonomous Oblast; to represent the International Order of Rainbow for Girls since the early 1920s; and as a symbol of gay pride and LGBT social movements since the 1970s.
Today, the flag is flown as a sign of inclusion and welcome. When flown outside businesses, or placed in shop windows, it tells LGBT people they can relax, and feel safe to do what others’ take for granted: to hold hands or kiss their partners, to rent a hotel room together, to book a table for Valentines day, to demonstrate their love without hate. As an image, it reminds us of not only the diversity of sexual orientation but also of the diversity of human characteristics as a whole.

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Stonewall

The Stonewall website has lots of information on LGBT history along with lots and activities and resources.

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-uprising-50-years-lgbt-history

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PiNC – Pride in North Cumbria

https://www.prideinnorthcumbria.org/

PiNC in Cumbria is here to help you. Please visit their website for contact details and information.

Advice and support are always available from our experienced youth workers, as well as other group members.

Our usual 2020 drop-in sessions are currently not running because of the coronavirus pandemic. However new in-person sessions are being developed in-line with COVID Safe guidance.

We are also launching more online projects to keep our services going. Check out our new PiNC Blogs for more details. You can find us on Facebook for the most up-to-date information about what we’ve got planned and when.

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Click the link to the survey you need to complete. The code is your student number/person code without the s in front.

Are you thinking about applying to university? Would you like to find out more about the costs and support available? In this video you can find out more about the financial costs of university study, but also the support available to help you fund your education.

This video will give you 5 top tips to handle a virtual interview, and talk through some common mistakes you can easily avoid.

As an enrichment project, the Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care learners are participating in critical thinking workshops, following the Paideia Method and Socratic questioning. In these workshops they critically explore different dilemmas or topics that make them question their values, beliefs, why and how they think what they think and how their power and relationships influence different situations. These workshops will also work as a way to explore their high order thinking skills and will support to further develop their academic writing skills.

““Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward de Bono”

Check out these articles our Level 3 students have written

Today 12:15pm !

Learner Voice is hosting its very first online skills workshop hosted by the Work Experience Team.

The workshop will cover practical tips to develop your employability skills.

To join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTZiYmI2YjQtNmU1MC00YTA3LTlmN2YtNmQwZWJjZGJlNzEx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229171cead-e8cb-4f40-b001-42b96d1989ae%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223cac04d6-cb39-4e32-b1ab-3d0801828ad6%22%7d