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On behalf of all the Academic and Business support staff we would like to welcome you to
Brooksby Melton College.
Our aim is to provide you with an excellent service and to make your studies with us as rewarding and enjoyable as possible. If you feel there is anything we should change to enhance your learning experience, we would welcome your suggestions.
We expect you to attend all relevant classes and enter into the spirit of College life so that you develop yourself and help develop others whilst here. You can do this by making sure you participate fully in all learning activities and join in with everything the College has to offer.
The college is a strong believer in equality of treatment and opportunity and thus expects all staff and students to treat each other with respect, consideration, and dignity (as you would expect them to treat you). In this context, we would welcome any comments which help us to maintain our equality policy.
Our 3 Core values are:
 We believe that our students and customers should enjoy, benefit and be successful from the time they spend with us.
 We believe that all staff should contribute to improving the experience of our students and customers.
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We believe the College should be an open and respectful place to work and study that promotes and rewards achievement
Each of these values we look to embrace each year with ALL staff and students alike which we hope will support you and your studies.
Finally I would like to take this opportunity to wish you every success in your programme of study.
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Your Course team contact details
The Programme Team Manager for your area is: Carol Barker
The Course tutor for your course is: Emma Pymm
Brooksby Melton College Switchboard: 01664 850850
STAFF NAME
Jackie Passey
Rachel Lewan
Carol Barker
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: jpassey@brooksbymelton.ac.uk
Telephone: 01664 855460
Internal Extension: 134
Email: rlewan@brooksbymelton.ac.uk
Telephone: 01664 855460
Internal Extension: 134
Email: cbarker@brooksbymelton.ac.uk
Telephone: 01664 855453
Internal Extension: 174
Respect campaign
Respect for All
The College is committed to providing opportunities for all, and respects that each person is different with regard to ethnic origin, gender, disability, mental health, sexual orientation, age, religion and belief and economic and social need.
The College wishes to help students and staff understand and celebrate diversity by creating a culture of inclusivity, where all are valued. It will do this through a campaign known as:
“Respect for All”.
As part of the Respect for All campaign, the college will:
 deliver a structured group tutorial programme that promotes respect, diversity and inclusion,
 embed respect for all within the college curriculum and showcase student projects that promote Respect for All,
 Carry out other cross-college campaigns that will support the Respect for All agenda.
Further information can be found on Moodle.
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Term dates & Course timetable
At the start of your course you will be given a timetable that shows the sessions you have each week, who teaches them and where they are. This may change through the year as modules or units are completed and your course tutor will issue your with any changes. The dates of the terms for your course are:
Autumn Term
2014
Spring Term
2015
Summer Term
2015
Monday 22nd September 2014 – Friday 12 th December 2014
Half Term/Reading Break: Monday 20 to Friday 24 October
Monday 5 th January 2015 - Friday 27 th March 2015
Half Term/Reading Break: Monday 16 to Friday 20 February
Monday 13th April 2015 - Friday 3 rd July 2015
(May Day: Monday 4 th May)
Spring Bank Holiday: Monday 25 May – Friday 29 May
Your Course Design & Delivery
To make sure you are ‘work ready’ or equipped to go on to further study we have built your course up from a series of elements. The following section shows you how your course is made up. Your Course Tutor will spend time in induction week going through this with you.
Main qualification
Course Title: NVQ level 2 Beauty Therapy General route[minimum 54 credits required]
Awarding Body: VTCT
Year 1
Module /
Unit No.
Module Title
G22
G18
Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety
Promote additional services and products to customers
G8
B4
Develop and maintain effectiveness at work
Provide facial skin care treatment
Value/ credits
4
6
3
8
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B5
B6
N2
N3
Enhance the appearance of eyebrows and eyelashes
Carry out waxing treatment
Provide manicure services
Provide pedicure services
B8
B34
Provide makeup services
Provide threading Services
Employability and additional qualifications
Short qualification title: Level 2 Award in Prevention of Contact Dermatitis
Awarding Body: VTCT
Description:
This course will enable you with the knowledge to prevent contact dermatitis in your career
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4
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Additional qualification title: L2 Customer Services
Awarding Body: VTCT
Description:
This qualification will provide you with the skills and knowledge to provide the customer service skills required to work in beauty therapy
Functional Skills Design & Delivery
Being able to communicate and carry out basic numeracy is a vital skill that we all need if we are going to be able to work or complete further study. Your course has built into it timetabled sessions giving you an opportunity to develop these essential skills. These sessions will be staffed by a specialist tutor who will work with you to develop the skills you need to be able to achieve the functional skills qualifications that are part of your programme. For some students it may be more appropriate to be studying towards a GCSE in English and/or maths. This will be determined following your diagnostic assessment process.
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Assignment & Assessment schedule
You will be provided with information on and a plan of how your programme will be assessed. This will be given to you at the start of your course and show you how assessment will take place. It will include information on hand in dates and is planned so as to spread the assessment load out throughout your course.
You will be given feedback on each piece of assessed work as it is handed back to you. If it is a practical activity then initial verbal feedback followed by written feedback will be given so that you are clear of how you have done.
Your Course tutor will also keep an accurate, up-to-date record of your progress in relation to the course and this will be used in your one to one reviews and to inform parents of how you are progressing with the course.
You will be given opportunities to get feedback on how you are progressing prior to having to submit work for final assessment (summative assessment).This is called formative assessment. Formative assessment will be built into all teaching sessions and used to check that learning has taken place and used to give feedback on progress on activities that will form part of final assessed work.
Submitting work for summative assessment
The college has put the following guide lines in place to ensure you are given adequate opportunity to achieve your justified grade in all assessed work. For the purposes of the following guidelines summative assessment is defined as those pieces of assessed work and their associated submission dates identified in the assessment or assignment schedule which meet the awarding body achievement towards identified criteria. It is important that whilst you may want to aspire to achieve the highest possible grades, that is not always realistic. The time and effort you put in to any one assessment needs to not put your ability to pass all at risk. Your tutor will need to guide you on this.
 Your tutor will ensure that you understand the assessment requirements, the nature of evidence you will need to produce and the importance of time management and meeting deadlines.
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All work must be submitted by the submission date which is printed on the assignment brief.
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You should agree with the tutor if merit and distinction criteria are to be attempted as part of an assessed piece of work.
 Merit and distinction criteria may be either set as part of an assessment or as a separate piece of assessed work to that set for pass criteria.
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If for any reason you are unable to meet the specified deadline you should:
Complete a Mitigating Circumstances Form which must be forwarded to the tutor at
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least ONE WEEK before the original date stating the reason(s) why this is the case. If the tutor and Lead IV determine that the reason is valid then a new deadline will be set. An extension will normally only be granted once for any individual assessed piece of work.
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Any unauthorised late submission of work or Mitigating Circumstances Form which is not agreed will result in failure of the unit.
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If you are away from College on sick leave your tutor can, provided they have the agreement of the Lead Verifier, complete the Mitigating Circumstances Form on the your behalf. This can only be done where a valid justified reason for absence from the college has been provided.
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Once you begin work for summative assessment the tutor must not provide specific assessment feedback on the evidence produced by you before it is submitted for assessment, or confirm achievement of specific assessment criteria until the assessment stage.
Some of your work will be sampled by another person (Internal Verifier) who will ensure that standards are being maintained in accordance with the requirements of the awarding body. This may involve someone watching your tutor assess you. Sometimes the awarding body send someone in to the College (External Verifier) and they may want to talk to you or see you being assessed. In both cases your Course tutor will inform you of this.
Appeals against assessment decisions
If you are not happy with how a grading decision is made about an assignment or assessment then you should initially raise this with your tutor to try to have it informally resolved. However if this is not resolved then there is a formal process of appeal in place. A full version of this policy can be found on Moodle.
Plagiarism & malpractice
It is important that in any work you do that is assessed that you don’t break the awarding body guidelines. If you do then this is called ‘Malpractice or Plagiarism’. The following are examples of how this might occur:
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Plagiarism is using another person’s work/research without acknowledging where the information came from. It is very serious and can put your college career at risk.
Sometimes you may want to use an author’s exact words – if so it is essential that you use a quotation. Everything between quotation marks should be exactly as it is in the original source.
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Working together with other students to produce work that is then submitted as all your own work. You should not be discouraged from teamwork, as this is an essential skill, but work submitted for assessment must show where this has happened.
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Pretending to be someone else in order to produce the work for another or arranging for someone else to do the work for you in an assessment/examination/test
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Making up of results and/or evidence
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Failing to abide by the instructions or regulations for an assessment or test.
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Misuse of assessment/examination material
For further detail please refer to the full policy on Assessment Malpractice which can be found on Moodle.
Progression / Career opportunities
Progression & career opportunities after your main qualification.
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Academic routes (Internal)
Level 3 beauty therapy
Academic routes (External)
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Employment routes
Employment in high street beauty salons, department stores, mobile therapist
Unsure still
Why not meet up with your course tutor if you are unsure of the route within your chosen subject area. If you would like more general options/advice then why not book to see Student Services .
Supporting you while you study and listening to what you want
Study skills workshops
Within your timetable we have put in a session where you will be able to work on assignments and receive help and support from your tutor in developing your study skills.
Being able to work on your own and complete tasks to a timescale is an important skill that we need to help you develop.
Using Referencing for Assignment writing
Whenever you draw on another writer’s ideas, you should give a clear Reference to their original work. That is, you need to say which particular book or article you are working from. You should also give the page number and the date of publication so that your reader
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can find the same details. The details of the reference can be provided in a full list of references at the end of your assignment.
In an essay you often have to discuss other people’s ideas and when you do so you are expected to use a ‘citation’ that is, a brief reference to where those ideas came from. You could use phrases such as:-
 As Jones argues ……..
 As Smith states…….
 According to Williams……. etc.
Following these statements a reference is required e.g. (Smith 1998), (Jones 2002), or
(Williams 2003).
A much more detailed explanation of the Harvard Referencing system can be found on
Moodle.
Additional learning support
As part of supporting your success you will have taken an Initial Assessment as part of the recruitment process or in induction. We are able to use the results of that to provide additional help to those that are shown to need it.
Additional learning support may take many forms at the College, the nature of which is decided by the Learning Support Team. These include:
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A Learning Support Assistant (LSA) who works with you one to one outside of normal classes.
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Small group workshops, which enable students to work with other students who have a similar literacy and/or numeracy need.
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A Learning Support Assistants (LSA) who will give you in-class support during normal teaching sessions.
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Special support during the examination process which might include additional time, someone to read or write for you.
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Special equipment, including software to help you with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
Full details of the Additional Learning support policy can be found on Moodle.
Tutorials are monitoring your progress
Whilst you are at College you will have a series of Group and individual tutorials. The Group tutorials are sessions where all of your group will be provided with information on a range of topics to help you develop your personal and social skills.
As well as these sessions you will also have regular one to one tutorials. These will be with your Course tutor or in the case of some large groups another key member of the teaching team. This is your opportunity to discuss personal progress as well as setting and monitoring of targets to help make sure you succeed.
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Whilst you are with us these and other important personal information will be built up to form your Personal Learning Plan (PLP).These are accessed through Moodle which is the
College’s Virtual Learning environment. Moodle will also be used to deliver teaching sessions and contains much of the teaching material used in your teaching sessions.
A full explanation of these the PLP’s and how to use them will be given during your induction programme and can be found on Moodle.
Student Voice and College/Course Reps
Your views are important to us. You will automatically become a member of the Student
Union when you join the Collge.Throughout your course we encourage you to give your opinions on a wide range of issues ranging from the quality of teaching to the service in the refectory. We will give you feedback on the Moodle site in the format of ‘You said, we did’ to keep you informed. Each course has course reps that will be involved in organising activities and also to giving feedback on course specific matters.
All students are encouraged to participate in on-line questionnaire surveys held at induction and end of year.
Student Council meetings are held on each campus, on a termly basis, to allow students to raise issues of campus or college-wide concern.
Separate HE/FE Forums, attended by course representatives, are held twice a year to raise campus/college wide issues to senior management and campus staff.
Student focus groups are held with groups of learners (usually course-based) to obtain feedback on specific issues of concern. Students are also invited to participate in working groups of the College, as appropriate.
A Praise and Complaints scheme is available for students to report comments, suggestions, compliments and complaints on any aspect of their learning experience on an on-going basis.
Please support and get involved in this important aspect of College life as it not only helps us to understand what is important to you but also helps you to develop valuable employability skills and for us to make sure that you get the most out of the time you spend with us.
In addition to the above College-wide processes, teaching departments obtain their own student feedback on programme or departmental practice, which is used to support review and development processes.
Enrichment & employability opportunities
An important part of your time here is spent developing your employability skills. To help with this your course has additional visits, trips and guest speakers. You may also get
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involved in offsite work although this will depend on your progress through the year with normal college sessions. For your course these are:
Visits and trips
Trade show
Other trips as planned throughout the year
Guest speakers
Ragdale Hall
Product workshops
Ear piercing
Additional workshops to be planned throughout the year
Off site work
Work experience is optional at level 2
Health and safety on your course
Making sure you stay safe and don’t put others at risk whilst on your course is essential. In order to make sure of this you will receive instruction and guidance on all that you do. The following information is here to supplement information and instruction given out in teaching sessions.
Risk Assessments & Safe systems of work
Salon rules i.e. appearance, uniform etc
Not to use any machinery unless instructed in how to do so
Cleaning and hygiene
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
No uniform = no salon access!
This also includes rules on hair, nails, piercings, tattoos, shoes etc
Uniform and equipment
Kit to be purchased[ order forms available for your tutor]
Uniform to include a tunic and black trousers[ order forms available from your tutor
You will need to purchase a pair of closed in flat black shoes, if wearing socks, need to be black
Evidence File to be purchased : £37.50 to be paid into trip code 1901 at college main reception at enrolment
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Hair to be off the shoulders, make up to be worn, one set of studs in lobes only, no other piercings to be visible, tattoos to be covered
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