News

You may be aware that a student at the college’s London Road campus was recently admitted to the hospital with suspected meningococcal disease.

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Shrewsbury Colleges Group is delighted to celebrate the outstanding achievements of two talented apprentices, Kyle Blower and Cai Curtis.

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At the beginning of December, the college will send out the A Level certificates for the students who sat A Levels during the summer.

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Due to the potential impact of strike action on the reliability of appointments for the Year 2 Consultation Event on Thursday, 28 November, between 5.00pm and 8.00pm, we are switching from running a face-to-face event to using the online meeting facility, MS Teams.

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Shrewsbury Colleges Group has responded to the notification of strike action at the college by teachers who are members of the National Education Union.

Strike action will occur on Thursday, 28 November, Tuesday, 3, and Wednesday, 4 December 2024.

The strike action is in response to the NEU's dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the demand for a fully funded above-inflation pay award for teachers and will take place in some sixth-form colleges.

The college will take action to minimise the strike's impact on students across the three days.

The strike action will not affect college trips, the Criminology external assessment on 28 November, the information event on 28 November or the Christmas Concert on 4 December.

Students who have an assessment, exam, or trip will still be expected to attend college to complete the exam or assessment or go on the trip on these dates in November and December. All lessons will be registered.

The overwhelming majority of lessons will take place as usual. Therefore, all students should attend college as normal unless informed otherwise by the relevant Curriculum Director.

Students will be contacted by:

• Tuesday, 26 November, with the details of alternative arrangements for Thursday, 28 November
• Friday, 29 November, with the details of alternative arrangements for Tuesday, 3 December
• Monday, 2 December, with the details of alternative arrangements for Wednesday, 4 December

The Curriculum Directors are:

English Bridge Campus
Helen Morgan and Belinda Greenaway

Welsh Bridge Campus
Cathy McAllister and Jamie Hopkins

London Road Campus
Michelle Dawes, Andrew Lee, Jackie Swan, Stuart Raine, Micky Riddell

Shropshire Council has introduced a safe zone around the school on Sutton Way.

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Business in Action: Real-World Experience for Our Students! 

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A range of guests including students and educators gathered at the Library of Birmingham for the Access to HE Celebration.

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We recently held another successful Speed Networking event specifically designed for our Business T-Level Students.

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For Year 2 Students on Academic Programmes: A level / CTEC / Criminology

The college had detailed the planned mock exam period for A level and CTEC subjects to give students further experience of preparing and sitting several papers close together.

Year 2 Assessment Week

The mock week will run from Monday, 9 December to Friday, 13 December.

Please note that there is no mock exam for Criminology at this stage, as the controlled assessment for this subject only recently took place in November.

Individual exam timetables for students (including dates/times/room/seat number/candidate number) will be available on the MySCG app and on ProPortal from Monday, 25 November.

Please note that students may already be able to see exam timetable information on the app, but this is NOT the final version—dates, rooms, and seats are still being sorted out and could change multiple times in the next couple of weeks, so students should please wait until 25 November for the final version.

Course tutors will review critical exam information in tutorials next week, including how to access or print their timetable and reminders for what students can/can’t bring to exams.

All exams will take place at English Bridge.

Study Leave

Study leave runs from Monday, 9 December to Friday, 13 December for most Year 2 A level subjects with some exceptions as follows:

Students of Fine Art, Graphics, Photography, and textiles should attend lessons unless there is a clash with an exam. If there is a clash, students should attend the exam and make up an equivalent amount of time in the studio when possible. Art staff will let students know when the studios are available during that week.

CTEC students of Applied Science, Business and Health & Social Care should attend their mock CTEC and, where possible, attend lessons or workshops as agreed with their CTEC teachers.

Year 2 students on mixed programmes of Year 2 A level with Vocational Art or Year 1 subjects must attend their Vocational Art or Year 1 lessons as usual unless a clash with a Year 2 mock exam. In that case, students should attend the exam and return to the lesson when possible. Please get in touch with teachers regarding any missing work so that students catch up fully before the next lesson.

Year 2 Tutorial and EPQ lessons will not run during the study leave week.

Year 2 students will not be expected to attend GCSE or Functional Skills lessons that week but will continue for Year 1 and Vocational Art students.

CTEC students

Students studying CTEC subjects will have exams in January that are not mocks. These exams count towards their final grade and cannot be rearranged because they are nationally timetabled external assessments.

Teachers will ensure that they prioritise marking CTEC mocks so that feedback is given to students before the Christmas holiday. Students must attend those final lessons to help inform their revision over the break.

Summer Contingency Date

Exam boards have confirmed the final contingency date as Wednesday, 25 June 2025 – any exam board could choose to move a summer exam to this date at short notice in response to a national or regional incident.

Students must keep themselves free until this date, so please do NOT book summer holidays that start on or before 25 June. Being away would not be accepted by an exam board as a reasonable excuse, so it would impact their grade if they missed an exam.