About Us - Local Links
THE COLLEGE AND THE COMMUNITY
The college has long-standing links with primary schools, secondary schools, Higher Education institutions and the wider community. The college has an ethos of aspiration and achievement which has seen it double in size over the past decade. In the same period our links with our educational and the wider community have grown apace. We believe that the latter precedes and influences the former.
The college has developed high quality, diverse ways of working with primary schools, secondary schools and universities to raise and sustain aspirations of all learners. We use our strong links with schools and Higher Education to make connections and create partnerships in which we work together to engage and inspire young people. Our excellence in school/college partnerships has been recognised by an Association of Colleges Beacon Award.
The college also has strong links with a whole range of statutory, voluntary and commercial organisations, including the local authority, the Health Authority and Primary Care Trust, Humberside Police and Rescue Services and many other bodies. This enables us to provide excellent support to students in developing their personal, emotional, social, mental, physical, spiritual and academic wellbeing.
Wendy Chaplain
14-19 Curriculum Support Officer
Susan Walker
Chaplain; Schools Liaison
CORUS
Corus Links Scheme
Up to 20 science students benefit from a prestigious link scheme with Corus each year.
Set up in the 1980s to try to encourage more students to study engineering and science subjects, the scheme allows students to undertake a five-week research project at the steel plant during their summer break.
The projects they address involve real problems or developmental issues within technical and engineering departments and result in oral and written reports to managers.
Corus Group plc is a leading international metal company formed from the merge of British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens in October 1999. Combining international expertise with local service, Corus is a steel producer providing innovative metal solutions for attractive markets.
Headquartered in London, Corus is listed on the London, New York and Amsterdam stodck exchanges. It has 20 business units manufacturing in 17 countries; has sales offices in 41 countries and service centres in Europe and North America.
Corus produced 18 million tonnes of steel in 2001 which represented 11% of total EU production and is Europe's third largest steel producer. The company employs around 52,000 people world-wide, 26,000 of whom are in the UK and 12,000 in The Netherlands.
Its main markets are in the construction, automotive, packaging, aerospace, shipbuilding, rail transport, energy and engineering industries. It has strong links with education, both HE and schools and colleges.
Corus website - http://www.corusgroup.com
Corus/John Leggott College Link Scheme
SCIENCE CENTRE
John Leggott College, Science Centre of Excellence
INDUSTRIAL LIAISON DOCUMENT
At John Leggott College there is a consistent effort to create and extend links with local industry so that students develop an understanding and appreciation of the industrial world in its widest sense through their day to day learning and in their career aspirations. This Industrial Liaison Report details some of the activities the College has organised for students, including work experience, work shadowing and learning from industry and community representatives.
[Industrial Liaison Document, pdf format, 276kb]