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Admission Policy Changes for 2024-2025 Consultation

The following proposal has been submitted to North Lincolnshire Council for the 2024-2025 school year:

“We are formally requesting to change our admissions policy for the cohort 2024/25. Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire has gone from strength to strength over the last two years, recruiting record numbers into year 9, whilst growing our sixth form.

Health Science and Social Care has been added as a new specialism from September 2021 after the sector needs were highlighted due to the covid crisis. The Labour Market Information (LMI) for across Northern Lincolnshire shows that both Engineering and Health and Social Care have skills gaps that are growing and will continue to grow with population growth and energy sector growth across the Humber.

Today the presence and growth of global and national companies as well as an entrepreneurial development of small and medium sized enterprises places demands on highly skilled young people.

The area aspires to position Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire as the world leader for renewables, engineering and Health and Social Care, engaging businesses and employers across North Lincolnshire and beyond to demonstrate commitment through investment.

It is the intention of Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire to mirror this ambition attracting admissions from across North Lincolnshire, as well as the neighbouring areas of North East Lincolnshire, South and East Yorkshire.

As we have grown the new Health sciences specialism, it is important to highlight the different STEM pathways, and ensure the teaching and learning is robust with specialist teaching, as well as safeguarding numbers of students in science classrooms and engineering workshops. This will allow the UTC to work in a safe manner adhering to our risk assessments which follow legislation and professional guideline.

For the above reasons we would like to make changes to our admissions policy:

1. All students for Year 9 admission will be expected to apply for one of the UTC’s two specialisms

1. For the engineering specialism there will be 60 places available for students in each year group and 60 for Health Sciences.

1. If there are insufficient applicants for places in one specialism, these will be added to the places available for the other specialism up to a maximum of an additional 10% in either specialism due to restrictions of the building, staffing levels and health and safety

There are no changes to our overall Pupil Admission Numbers (PAN). The PAN is split into the two specialisms equally. These two specialisms have the largest skills gaps in Northern Lincolnshire, and are both fully supported by the businesses we work with on a daily basis, as well as our core partners.”

Full copies of the proposed arrangements and further details of the consultation are available on the council’s website at  Consultations for admission arrangements – North Lincolnshire Council (northlincs.gov.uk)

Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire Loyal Leaders submitted an entry into this year’s Waterline Summit Student Sustainability Challenge, led by Marketing Humber and sponsored by Equinor and SSE Thermal, the challenge encourages students across region aged 9 to 18 to make a positive impact on communities and the environment by coming up with climate change solutions.

Pictured: The Waterline Summit Final Winners ENL UTC 2022

The Loyal Leaders are made up of eight year 10 students Ethan, Bailey, Nicole, Lila, Rob, Oliver, Filip and Jacob. These students act as ENL UTC’s school council for their own year group meeting regularly, being the voice of their peers and bringing fresh new ideas and suggestions to the UTC.

Team members developed and implemented an energy pledge at Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, investigated ways to reduce energy consumption and is now working with the Finance Manager and Facilities Manager to cut the school’s energy bills by a third. This was submitted earlier in the year and the students won £250 for making it to the finals.

Some of the change’s students have implemented within the school working alongside the premises & finance manager are automatic shutdown of all PC’s, reminding teaching and support staff to turn off any lights in classrooms, arranging the cleaning of all solar panels on the roofing and installation of netting to keep wildlife away from them, making them more efficient in producing solar power and much more. The students also created an Energy Pledge for family, friends, students and business to sign.

The winners of the Waterline Student Sustainability Challenge, which encourages young people across the Humber to come up with their own eco solutions, were announced at the summit earlier this month.

The Loyal Leaders, from Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, won the top prize of £2,000 for their school and a trip to Norway with sponsor Equinor.

Anesta McCullagh principal of Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, said: “We are incredibly proud of our students and the work they have done not only towards the Sustainability Challenge but to make a difference to a real-life issue that everyone is currently feeling the effects of.

They have been able to make a significant contribution to lowering the school’s energy usage which is something the students should be really proud of.

We would like to thank everyone involved in The Waterline Summit Sustainability Challenge 2022 and for the opportunity this has given young people in our area!”

Students attending the session also enjoyed a talk from three-time Olympic champion cyclist Ed Clancy OBE, who shared his tips on how to succeed in even the most high-pressure environments.

The Waterline Summit Student Sustainability Challenge 2022 was supported by Equinor and SSE Thermal.

For more information about The Waterline campaign visit https://thewaterline.global/

Further information about The Waterline Student Sustainability Challenge is available via https://thewaterline.global/students/

ENL UTC Health Science students were very kindly invited to the Care Plus Group Annual Members Meeting 2022. 8 of our students together with 2 members of staff took the journey from Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire and headed to Grimsby Auditorium for this event. Students had the opportunity to attend a working lunch kindly provided by the team at Navigo, take a tour of the marketplace where multiple departments from within Care Plus Group had set up informative stands on their specific area. This meant our students had an amazing opportunity to speak with key workers from various different job roles who shared with them their knowledge, experience and skills required to progress into their career pathways.

As the day went on, ENL UTC students took their seats for the afternoon awards ceremony and had even been given the very important job earlier in the day of visiting every stand in the market place to crown the best stand of 2022! Alysha & Nicole took to the stage to announce the winner live in front of a very busy crowd. Our Health Science students then had an incredible afternoon listening to the key speaker in awe, Dany Cotton – Previous Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and the first female to hold the position.

Our students listened to Dany’s tales of her life, career and challenges she has faced throughout. Dany provided invaluable advise to our students who are at the start of their pathway and encouraged them to never give up, despite the challenged they may come across.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Care Plus Group, who provided our students with this amazing opportunity to network and learn more about what the different sectors of health care can look like. Our students were treated like VIP’s from the second they arrived and all left the AMM feeling not only full of knowledge and new information, but hugely inspired to push forward into their exciting pathways.

If you would like to find out more about Care Plus Group and what they do, you can visit their website here.

http://enlutc.users70.interdns.co.uk/waterline-summit-2022/

On top of this, Eve raised £650 in just six days for the We Are One Foundation by riding 50 miles on her bike – and managed to raise a further £200 for The Poppy Appeal. Eve also bakes cakes, biscuits and crumbles for elderly people in the village she lives – and leaves baked goods on people’s doorsteps as random acts of kindness.

Last Easter, Eve also managed to collect 400 Easter eggs to give to people in need. Despite her own challenges with dyslexia, Eve is so passionate about helping those more vulnerable than herself – so much so that she has just won a prestigious award. Incredibly, Eve has won The Nottingham’s Innovative Young People of 2021 competition, which sought to find young people who have demonstrated “inspiring ways to further their education or boost career aspirations”.