Student Competition SuccessLooking back at the incredible achievements of our students

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IntroductionAt East Durham College we focus on developing resilience and practice for perfection through a range of strategies, one of them being taking an active role in competitions. We have moved the emphasis for students away from winning and losing to simply taking part.

At East Durham College we believe competititon motivates ambition and increases performance standards among those involved, as well as their classmates.

Importantly, competition also creates role models for others to look to emulate, driving up standards and creating an upward cycle of success and building resilience.

For lecturers, the challenge of a competition brings fun

and exciting new elements into teaching, learning and assessment, making the experience more involved for all concerned.

That’s why we encourage as many of our students as possible to take part in competitions as part of their course. At college, local, national and even international level, competitions play a vital role in raising standards, esteem and levels of expertise in further education and skills, rewarding exceptional talent.

This newsletter does not include every event and competition our students took part in, but gives you a good flavour of some of their successes, and helps celebrate some outstanding achievements.

2019-2020

EDC hairdressing student Rayna Kovacevic took the 1st place prize at this year’s North East heats of the Concept Magazine Hair Apprentice of the Year show.

Rayna was awarded the title after creating a stunning design inspired by the Roaring Twenties, bringing the 1920’s straight into the 2020’s!

Rayna can now go on to the National competition later in the year.

1st Place for Rayna at Hairdressing Competition

Simone Bags Silver at European Taekwondo Championships

Talented East Durham College student Simone Abley has achieved the silver medal in the female welterweight division at the European Universities Taekwondo Championships held in Zagreb, capital of Croatia.

In the recent competition, Simone won the quarter finals against Croatia 19-0, came out on top in the semi-finals against Croatia, again, with 9-2 and lost the final against Portugal with a result of 7-3.

2018-19

Sam Coote from County Durham has been crowned the winner of Farmers Apprentice 2018.

22 year old Sam was crowned the winner of Farmers Apprentice 2018, following 5 days of challenging tasks. He beat eight other finalists to clinch the title, walking away with a cash prize of £10,000 to invest in his farming future.

Sam is a former EDC Houghall student now pursuing a career in agriculture.

Sam Named as Farmer’s Apprentice of the Year 2018

Bronze Medal at Chelsea Flower Show for AllanAllan Raby, an EDC Houghall floristry student, did an amazing job in 2018 as he came 3rd in the country in the Chelsea Florist of the Year competition.

Allan travelled to the competition alongside fellow EDC student Vicki Abbott and floristry tutor Rebecca Hough.

Rebecca won the title of Chelsea Florist of the Year at the show too!

2017-18

East Durham College students have shown off their skills by taking part recently in the Skills Show 2017, proving that having learning difficulties and disabilities don’t have to hold you back when it comes to looking for employment.

Macauley Dean and Laura Reynolds, both students at EDC, took part in the Skills Show’s Inclusive Skills competition. Thirty-nine students from 20 different colleges took part in the competition.

Students Shine at Inclusive Skills Competition

Inspirational Award for ImogenImogen Johnson, a student from East Dur-ham College won the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy’s ‘Inspirational Student of the Year’ award during a London ceremony last week (5th July 2017).

Imogen, from Blackhall Colliery, was studying the BTEC in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, when she was nominated by fellow students and staff at the college. Imogen fought off competition from several other colleges and was chosen for the honour due to her incredible achievements on the course, despite being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

2016-17

An engineering apprentice, who studies qualifications with East Durham College, has scooped the top prize at a regional industry awards ceremony.

Martin Clutterbuck, 23, from Durham, took top prize in the Outstanding Apprentice of the Year category at the North-East, Yorkshire and Humberside EEF Future Manufacturing Awards held last week at Harrogate’s Great Yorkshire Showgrounds.

Engineering Apprentice Takes Top Spot In Prestigious Manufacturing Awards

Arb Team Proves It Has A Head For HeightsA group of East Durham College arboriculture students have impressed with their pole climbing skills at a num-ber of recent county shows, picking up awards across the country.

At Woodfest, student Rob Kay picked up a first place in the Tree Surgery class, with female students Lois Millburn, Liese Unger and Poppy Bowyer taking the top three places respectively, in the Ladies Climbing competition.

At the Highland Show, Luke Towler took first place in the Experts Category and the Utility Climb.

2015-16

A talented East Durham College student has won a silver medal at the World Kickboxing and Karate Union’s World Championship 2015.

Leigh Newton, 17, from Wheatley Hill, competed at the WKU World Championships held in Benidorm, Spain, last month, where over 30 federations from around the world took part..

Student Wins Thai Boxing World Championship’s Silver

Gareth Making A Splash With Medal HaulA talented East Durham College student, on top of achieving very highly on his current college course, has been putting in impressive performances for a local swim-ming club.

Para-swimmer Gareth Orr, 22, joined the college back in January this year after moving to the north east from Peterborough, enrolling on the college’s Foundation Studies programme.

He recently won a number of medals at a club championship event at Sunderland before going on to be the only swimming represent-ative for East Durham College at the Associa-tion of College’s national championship.

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