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Best of British at Derwen College

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Does the classic fish and chips combo float your boat, do you prefer a traditional roast with all the trimmings, or would you love to lift the lid on a crusty pie? Derwen College is celebrating British Food Fortnight from 21st September to 6th October with a restaurant menu brimming with good old British favourites.

The Gobowen college, which provides on-site work placements to students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), will be serving up British specials throughout the fortnight. In the Orangery Restaurant Monday is Pie Day; Thursday is Roast Day; Friday is Fish Day and Sunday will be busy with the restaurant’s popular two and three-course Sunday Lunch menu. The restaurant will also be offering its classic favourites including home-cooked ham, fried egg and chips, and sausage and mash. Main courses start at just £5.95, with two-course weekday specials £6.95 and Sunday lunches from £8.95.

The Garden Café will be serving the best of British including English breakfasts, scrumptious home-made cakes and delicious cream teas. Afternoon teas can also be provided if booked in advance.

The Garden Centre shop sells fresh home-made bread made on site from Monday to Friday along with award-winning jams and chutneys made by students in the college’s Food Centre.

Derwen College Commercial Development Manager Pete Evans said: “Derwen College is pleased to be part of British Food Fortnight offering some of Britain’s favourite dishes and produce in our Orangery Restaurant, Garden Café and Garden Centre Shop.”

For more information on Derwen College events and facilities visit www.visitderwen.co.uk.

Adam limbers up to support #TeamDerwen

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Derwen College is delighted to announce a new addition to our #TeamDerwen Lake Vyrnwy Half Marathon squad.

Former Derwen College student Adam Ffoulkes-Fenner is travelling back from his home town of Croydon to brave the 13.1-mile Lake Vyrnwy course to raise money for Derwen College Charity.

Adam, aged 22, who left Derwen College this summer, has been in training, keeping in shaped for the gruelling challenge over the summer holidays.

Since leaving Derwen College, the former hospitality student, is continuing to study Catering and Hospitality at Surrey’s Nescot FE College.

During his time at Derwen, Adam reached the national finals of a catering competition and achieved his Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

We can’t wait to see him again and know his determination and fitness will see him through.

To support Adam and the team of 10 Derwen College staff and friends you can donate here.

Or go along to Lake Vyrnwy at 1pm on Sunday, 8th September to cheer along him and the rest of the team.

We asked Adam to tell us a little bit about his motivation for running:

1. What is your running experience?
I have run a few Park runs while I was at Derwen with Steve, I also run with my Dad.
2. What do you want to achieve by taking part in the half marathon?
I want to raise money for Derwen and I like being fit
3. How do you stay motivated to run/train?
It gives me something to do.
4. What did you like about your time at Derwen College?
It gave me lots of opportunities and independence.
5. Why did you want to raise money for the College?
I want to raise money for the college to get more resources to help the students.
6. Favourite food?
I like everything.
7. Favourite music/band
AC/DC and the White Stripes.

Run for Derwen

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Olyvia, Eluned, Paul and Siobhan

A team of 10 staff from Derwen College will be raising money for Derwen College Charity by taking part in the 13.1-mile Lake Vyrnwy Half Marathon. Team Derwen will be running around the picturesque Welsh lake on Sunday, 8th September.

Liv Evans, Eluned Watson, Paul Moss and Siobhan Williams are ready for action in their new Derwen Charity t-shirts. They will be joined by Sarah Bennett, Rosie Keaney, Pete Williams, Steve Evans, Ffiona Lewis and Erin Fletcher.

So, click on each runner’s name to read a little more about their motivation, and watch out for more pictures, news and blogs from Team Derwen over the coming weeks.

All money raised will go towards supporting our students in their learning, work placements and wellbeing. Every donation helps, so please support the team and sponsor them here.

Thanks to Cambrian Rotary Club

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Ron Pugh from Oswestry Cambrian Rotary Club, Derwen College Finance and Business Director Andrew Smith and Fundraising Co-ordinator Paul Crosby.

Derwen College welcomed Oswestry Cambrian Rotary Club president Ron Pugh to visit the college’s new hydrotherapy pool. The pool will aid students in their physiotherapy and sensory needs.

Mr Pugh presented a cheque for £275 to the specialist FE college, near Oswestry. The club had raised the money to help pay for a specialist shower trolley. This will aid students with mobility difficulties in using the pool.

The pool will be used by Derwen College students in their therapy and well-being sessions. Therefore the new building has accessible changing rooms, physiotherapy area and a warm water pool with sensory lighting and music.

Mr Pugh had  a tour of the pool with Fundraiser Paul Crosby. After that, Derwen College Business and Finance Director Andrew Smith accepted the cheque on behalf of the college. The pool will be available to students when they return for the new term in September.

Mr Crosby said: “As a result of generous donations from the community, Derwen will open the Bradbury Hydrotherapy Pool in September. I’d like to thank Cambrian Rotary Club for their donation toward a shower trolley which will help make the pool and changing area accessible to all of the students.”

For more information on supporting Derwen College Charity visit www.supportderwen.org.uk

Katrina’s Derwen College book launch

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Derwen College student Katrina Beacham held a book launch to showcase her debut novel. The budding author shared her story, which is based around life at Derwen College, with fellow students and staff.

Katrina’s book, called Derwen Dreams, is based partly on her own experiences at Derwen College. It is written with the aim of supporting new students as they start at college in September.

Katrina wrote the book, which students Drew, Max and Thomas then edited as part of their Functional Skills English sessions.

At the book launch, Katrina and Drew read the story aloud to their audience. After that, she signed copies of the book in true author style.

We think it’s an excellent story, written by students, for students. Here’s a taster of Katrina’s work!:

“Jay was a naturally shy person, he was short with fairly long fair hair and he had just had his birthday, so he was now nineteen years old. He was a lad who stayed in his room a lot and he didn’treally have any friends, but that was all about to change.
It was a bright sunny morning in September, and it was just about to turn 9am. Today was a big day for Jay; in fact, he thought this day would never happen, not in a million years, yes that’s 1,000,000 years!”

You can read the full story here:
https://www.derwen.ac.uk/derwen-dreams-by-katrina-beacham/

Derwen College top techies take on IT Challenge

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Jamie and Ben received medals and t-shirts for their hard work at the three-day IT Challenge

Two talented computer whizzes from Shropshire’s Derwen College competed at the national IT Challenge in Ipswich last week.

Students Jamie Bullock and Ben Moore-Hill represented the specialist further education college near Oswestry in the three-day ShawTrust UK IT Challenge.

The event saw more than 50 competitors with learning difficulties and disabilities take on a variety of IT challenges to test ability, creativity and skill using different computer programmes.

Challenges included designing a poster in PowerPoint, retrieving specific information from the internet and showing off abilities in Excel. Jamie and Ben were a credit to the college, receiving certificates and medals for their knowledge and hard work. Jamie was also awarded with a Kindle Fire for his excellent public speaking and willingness to ask searching questions.

Retail student Jamie Bullock said: “I enjoyed the IT Challenge. Some of the challenges were rather hard but I enjoyed it and learnt a lot. We learnt about programming Bots and met Olympic athlete Mitchell Camp. I won the Best Public Speaker for talking about how important it is to support peers with IT, and for asking lots of questions to the interesting speakers.”

Derwen College staff Zoe Wood and Emma Dodd from accompanied the students on the three-day challenge.

Zoe Wood said: “Jamie and Ben worked extremely hard at the IT Challenge in Ipswich. They were both amazing and represented the college really well. We are incredibly proud of their achievements.”

 

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