News College students set for Skills Olympics
Pupils attending Selby College from Goole and surrounding areas will take part in a 'Skills Olympics' on Monday.
Students from six curriculum areas, art, beauty, business, catering, fashion and hairdressing, will compete by under-taking a practical test based on real-life work. The Skills Olympics will highlight the many talents and skills of Selby College's students, from areas including Goole, Howden, Snaith, Rawcliffe, Carlton and Eastrington, and allow them to prepare to participate in regional and national skills competitions, which have been arranged as a precursor to the World Skills Olympics which are to be held in London in 2011.
The event will be judged by some of local industry's key players and the college will also welcome Margaret Coleman, Regional Director of the Learning and Skills Council for Yorkshire and the Humber as guest speaker and presenter. Other important guests such as Selby Town Mayor, Doreen Davies and local headteachers will also be in attendance.
In preparayion for the event, art students have been given the theme 'The Portrait' and will be asked to produce an original artwork using a variety of materials on an A1 sheet of paper/card. The theme of the beauty competition is a masquerade ball. Competitors will create masks out of make-up.
Business competitors were given a brief to produce a promotional plan to increase the amount of students enrolling onto Selby College business courses. They have had a week to collect data and research the project and have been given a budget of £25k to work with.
A BBC Ready Steady Cook style competition is taking place in Selby College's Four Season's Restaurant. The competitors will be given a basket full of ingredients and their task is to produce two portions of a main course dish and two portions of a dessert.
Fashion competitors will be given access to a range of standard resources including lengths of fabric, basic tools, and a dress stand. They will be asked to respond to a set theme of 'pleat me, tuck me, fold me'. On the day they will be asked to produce an original moulage (the process of working directly onto the dress stand). Hairdressing competitors will go back to the swinging sixties and the decade of disco and recreate the hairstyles born out of the sixties and seventies! The styles will be performed on models.
The competitions will start at 9.30am on Monday and competitors will have three hours to complete their competition task. Judges will decide on a winner for the gold, silver and bronze award from each category. The event will conclude with speeches from Margaret Coleman and Principal Allan Stewart and a prize ceremony before guests enjoy a buffet lunch.
Published on 13th March 2008 in News.
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