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Intermediate Course Business (Retail) BTEC

Minimum Entry Requirements: Entry requirements for all intermediate courses: GCSE s at C/D/E grade.

Creative Media BTEC First Award

Spanish - 5 GCSEs at C grade or above including a foreign language

“ I didn’t plan to do the intermediate course when I applied to SSFC but my GCSE results weren’t what I needed. I enrolled on the Intermediate programme and I’ve been able to try some different GCSE subjects, resit Maths and get used to being at College. I’m staying on to do A levels so that I can work towards my aim of being a midwife. ” Anna Laycock “SSFC is an extremely open and welcoming college. People of all natures can be found here, and the college accommodates each and every student to find their own niche. ” Millie WiltshireKelly “I saw the potential of a ‘bridge’ between secondary school and discovering what was next for me. I was helped to develop my individual study skills and take responsibility for my own learning.” Lucy Abbott

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The BTEC Level 2 Award in Business (Retail) is a practical, work-related course, which provides an understanding of the business and retail environments. Students learn by completing projects and assignments that are based on realistic workplace situations and activities. It introduces students to particular areas of employment and provides a good basis to go on to a more advanced work-related qualification. Assessed primarily by coursework with an external exam component.

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By doing this Creative Media First Award, you will gain knowledge about the media industries; understand audiences and how media products are constructed to create meaning.

You will develop practical skills in pre-production (planning and pitching) as well as in production of a number of different media products. This course is effective because it helps you to develop skills that are essential for the modern-day workplace.

These skills include: team working; working from a prescribed brief; working to deadlines; presenting information effectively; and accurately completing administrative tasks and processes, opening doors to progression into further study and responsibility within the workplace. Assessed primarily by coursework with an external exam component.

English GCSE GCSE English is a diverse subject that allows you to encounter a wide range of texts including non-fiction prose, autobiography, magazine articles, advertisements, leaflets and web pages as well as poems and literary fiction. Students are required to respond to the material in a variety of ways, creatively, analytically and verbally.

Students who have not gained at least a grade C in GCSE English or English Language are required to take this course alongside their other studies. Assessment is by external examination and controlled assessment.

Intermediate Course Food Technology GCSE

Minimum Entry Requirements: Entry requirements for all intermediate courses: GCSE s at C/D/E grade.

Spanish - 5 GCSEs at C grade or above including a foreign language

“ I didn’t plan to do the intermediate course when I applied to SSFC but my GCSE results weren’t what I needed. I enrolled on the Intermediate programme and I’ve been able to try some different GCSE subjects, resit Maths and get used to being at College. I’m staying on to do A levels so that I can work towards my aim of being a midwife. ” Anna Laycock “SSFC is an extremely open and welcoming college. People of all natures can be found here, and the college accommodates each and every student to find their own niche. ” Millie WiltshireKelly “I saw the potential of a ‘bridge’ between secondary school and discovering what was next for me. I was helped to develop my individual study skills and take responsibility for my own learning.” Lucy Abbott

email: admissions@ssfc.ac.uk

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GCSE Food Technology allows you to develop practical skills using the material of food. You will learn to think creatively, to analyse existing food products and to understand the need for those products, to participate in tomorrow’s rapidly changing technologies. It is a good starting point for jobs in the catering industry, in product development, hotel or restaurant management.

Health & Social Care BTEC First Award BTECs are vocationally related qualifications, where you will develop knowledge and understanding by applying your learning and skills in a work-related context, providing you with a choice of routes into further education or employment. You will study a total of four units over the year. It is a good starting point for jobs in the care industry such as nursing, social work, care assistant and working with children..

Maths GCSE Improving your maths skills can make a real difference for future job opportunities or higher education courses. Most students will follow a resit programme aiming at GCSE C grade but for some students a Foundation course in money management may be more appropriate. Students who have not gained at least a C grade in GCSE Mathematics are required to take this course alongside their other studies.

Photography GCSE GCSE Photography is concerned with developing technical, critical, and contextual skills necessary to the production of engaging images.

The course includes technical exercises to build photographic skills and written analysis of the work of key photographers.

Students gain an understanding of visual communication and the role of photography in contemporary culture. You are expected to have your own digital camera.

Intermediate Course

Psychology GCSE Minimum Entry Requirements: Entry requirements for all intermediate courses: GCSE s at C/D/E grade.

Spanish - 5 GCSEs at C grade or above including a foreign language “ I didn’t plan to do the intermediate course when I applied to SSFC but my GCSE results weren’t what I needed. I enrolled on the Intermediate programme and I’ve been able to try some different GCSE subjects, resit Maths and get used to being at College. I’m staying on to do A levels so that I can work towards my aim of being a midwife. ” Anna Laycock “SSFC is an extremely open and welcoming college. People of all natures can be found here, and the college accommodates each and every student to find their own niche. ” Millie WiltshireKelly “I saw the potential of a ‘bridge’ between secondary school and discovering what was next for me. I was helped to develop my individual study skills and take responsibility for my own learning.” Lucy Abbott

email: admissions@ssfc.ac.uk

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Studying Psychology GCSE offers a broad introduction to the subject.

Unit one considers the Psychology involved in perception and dreaming, and unit two provides understanding and explanations of aggression, phobias, criminality and methods used to alter human behaviour. If you are interested in finding out more about Psychology, or are curious about the methods of enquiry that Psychologists use, this course could be for you.

Spanish GCSE This successful and rewarding course will take you from absolute beginner level to GCSE in one year and is only recommended if another language has already been studied to GCSE level. You will need to produce two pieces of written work under controlled assessment as well as two oral assessments.

Topics studied will include daily activities, holidays and travel, work and lifestyle and relationships. This is a fast-paced, intensive course and you will need to take advantage of all the resources available to consolidate work covered in class.