AS and A Level Textiles students enjoyed a weaving workshop with Llio James, a Welsh practitioner with a strong interest in developing the relationship between hand weaving and the traditional woollen industry within Wales.
Exploring the feeling of belonging to ‘country and culture,’ colour plays an important role in her design process as she examines proportion, scale and geometric shapes when hand weaving bespoke cloth.
A group of A2 History learners recently heard testimony from Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke BEM as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).
They also took part in a Q&A session to enable them to better understand the nature of the Holocaust and to explore its lessons in more depth. The visit was part of the HET’s extensive all year round Outreach Programme, which is available to schools across the UK.
Almost 4,500 full time students have started the new academic year at Gower College Swansea – signing up for A Levels and vocational courses in a range of subject areas including accountancy, engineering, hair & beauty and plumbing.
They are joining the College at an exciting time, with the imminent completion of renovation work and refurbishments set to enhance student facilities.
Gower College Swansea A Level English Literature student Matilda Gregory is one of only 20 young people to win a place on the Beacons Project residential writing course at the Hay Festival 2017.
The Beacons Project offers Welsh students the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills and explore careers in writing and journalism by working with professional writers, broadcasters and journalists such as Stephen Fry, Tracey Chevalier and Owen Sheers.
A student from Gower College Swansea has been shortlisted in the inaugural Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP) essay competition, which is open to AS Level students across the UK.
All students must have photographic identification (a student card is ideal) when they collect their results from the college.