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Student Wellbeing

Your wellbeing is at the forefront of what we do, we have a Student Services team who are here to support you on your college journey.

We want you to feel welcome, safe and valued while you are studying with us. We offer specialist support to help you in a variety of areas, whether you need careers guidance, learning support, or someone to talk to about personal difficulties that you may be facing, we are here to help you.

Counselling

Qualified therapeutic counsellors are available at all our campuses to offer confidential support. They can help you with a range of issues, including mental health, relationships, body image, bullying, and self-confidence.

If needed, they can also refer you to external services, such as local mental health teams.

Mentoring

Mentoring is available at all of our campuses. It can help support you to:

  • Settle into college and make new friends
  • Get practical advice, encouragement and emotional support
  • Build confidence and make positive choices
  • Develop and improve study skills and academic performance
  • Identify goals and develop a clear sense of direction

Course representatives

Course representatives are elected for each course group to provide you with the opportunity to feedback your views and experiences of your course to tutors and the College Senior Leadership Team.

Dyslexia and intervention support

Our friendly and knowledgeable team of support staff and specialist tutors work together with our various curriculum areas to provide you with the right help. We offer study support sessions to help you with getting organised, note taking, researching, assignment support and Maths and literacy.

Safeguarding

We recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all students. We endeavour to provide a safe and welcoming environment where staff, students, visitors and volunteers are respected and valued. We are alert to any signs of abuse neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that students receive effective support to thrive and achieve. Child and Adult at Risk protection forms part of our safeguarding responsibilities and we expect all staff, visitors and volunteers to share this commitment. Our full safeguarding policy can be viewed here.

Partnership working

We have excellent community links across London, working with the Police, Social Care Services, and Mental Health Support Services to help safeguard our students. We have also got sector based links with colleges and other educational providers to ensure sharing of best practice and lessons learnt.

Careers guidance and development

All of our students have access to impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance as set out in the College Information, Advice and Guidance Policy 2022-23.

Our Career Advisers are on hand to support you with your career planning and development. You will have access to information, advice and guidance across various areas, including: UCAS applications, one-to-one sessions, CV and cover letter writing, class tutorials, online and offline job search, interview techniques, mock interviews and an annual career fair attended by numerous industry professionals.

Current students can access the College’s careers pages on Moodle for useful advice and our jobs board.

Get in touch with our Careers team

Current students can pop-in on their lunch break, or book an appointment with our Careers Adviser, Mustafa Qureshi via 0303 003 1234 or careers@capel.ac.uk.

If you are an employer, please visit our Employers Hub with any suitable vacancies for us to share on our job boards.

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Learning support at Capel Manor College

  • Adaptive Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Learning Support Assistants (dependent on evidence of need and funding)
  • Open support sessions between 4–5pm (Study Skills–Organisation–Maths and English support)
  • Access arrangements for exams (Based on Normal Way of Working)
  • Assistive technology, CLARO Read, on all college laptops (Reading software – speech to text)
  • Learning support resources such as overlays – reading rulers – noise cancelling headphones – pen grips – writing slopes, fidget toys
  • BSL support
  • Electronic note takers
  • Mental Health support

Learning support is available to ensure no learner is disadvantaged on their chosen course of study and that you are able to successfully engage, participate and achieve your qualifications.

All learners on full time and part time FE programmes who have declared a learning difference. Please note learners studying HE must apply via DSA through the government website for support on HE programmes.

All learners who declare a learning need will receive an Additional Learning Support Form from our admissions department upon application. This enables them to inform the college of what support/adaptations they may require.

For any further queries they should contact learningsupport@capel.ac.uk or once enrolled they can speak with their tutors who will then refer them to the relevant services.

  • Education and HealthCare Plan declarations will require a formal consultation with your host local authority.
  • The local authority will need to be informed that you have, or are planning to, make an application to Capel Manor College.
  • They will then send us a formal consultation and include an up to date EHCP as well as Annual Review paperwork dated within the last year.
  • We use this information to determine whether we are able to meet the SEN provision that is stated in Section F of your EHCP. We will respond to your host local authority who will then contact you with the outcome.

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One of the things that stood out to me when I started was how friendly all the lecturers and College staff were; I have never felt like I could not speak to anyone. David studied environmental conservation during his time at Capel Manor College
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