College News
1 week ago
Adult Learners' Week is a national initiative to celebrate and encourage lifelong learning and we share that notion here at Alton College. Between the 20th and 24th May 2013, we're running workshops and taster sessions to inspire you to take up a new hobby or professional course. From Photography to First Aid, Accounting, Childcare, English or Maths, we cater... |
8 weeks ago
The Southern Jazz Centre at Alton College is proud to be offering a series of free of charge Improvisation Workshops with Sam Bullard and free of charge public performances by the Alton College Jazz Collective. The improvisation workshops are taking place on 27th March, 24th April and 22nd May. This is an exciting new partnership project between Alton College and... |
11 weeks ago
Our successful Maths department has yet again proved to be one of the top in the country after coming 11th in the National Final of the UK Maths Trust Senior Team Maths Challenge. Ed Kirkby, Rob Carter (both previously at Amery Hill), James Butcher (Weydon) and Heidi Nicholson (Robert May’s) formed the winning team of the regional heat late last year and have since been preparing... |
Tom, Joe, Kit, Harry and Evie, students who make up College band Slippery Angle, performed live at the Solent Sound Festival and received excellent praise from top judges. The band entered the festival, held at Solent University, and received overwhelmingly positive comments from the panel of professional judges which included radio DJs and ‘shakers and movers’ from the music industry... |
13 weeks ago
A group of our Spanish students have just returned from a week in Spain with Year 10 students from Amery Hill School. The two Spanish departments successfully organised a trip abroad to allow AS level and GCSE students to experience local culture and develop the language they are learning. The students spent a week in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz,... |
