Learning and Teaching

At Suffolk New College we aim to provide you with an exceptional student experience.

We want you to have an exceptional learning experience where you further develop your knowledge, skills and values to help you achieve your dreams.

Your study programme has been carefully planned to help you develop your skills, knowledge and understanding in your chosen vocational area. It includes your vocational qualification, your Maths and English (if you have not yet achieved a 4), work experience and Personal, Social and Employability Skills Development (PD). It may also include short employment related courses.

Full details of how your programme has been developed is included in your course handbook.

Individual Learning Plan

Your Progress Tutor will take you through your Individual Learning Plan in Pro-Monitor in the All About Me section which reviews your skills and achievements to date and asks you to think about your goals and plans for the future.

This section on Pro-Monitor also contains your target grades for each aspect of your study programme and is updated regularly to show your working at grade (WAG). Your WAG basically shows you what grade you are working at - at that time. You can use this to help plan how to reach your target grade. Discuss this with your Progress Tutor and your Link Tutor.

Independent Learning and Preparing for Lessons

You will be asked by your tutors to undertake learning independently in your own time. This will be either to reinforce learning from your recent lessons or to prepare you for your next lesson. It is very important that you do this work in the timescales set.

Virtual Learning Environment

The College uses a number of online tools to teach you including Moodle and the Google Suite for Education. Tutors will use these to support your access to class materials and assignments. They will also be used to support independent learning with videos, quizzes and tutorials. You will be shown how to access these tools during your induction.