College attends Skills North West

Realistic-looking gashes on this young visitor’s face

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Hopwood Hall College attended Skills North West, the region’s largest careers and training event at Event City in Manchester.

Skills North West aims to inspire young people from schools, colleges and community groups with their friends and families about their future careers and opportunities.

This year the event saw visitor numbers in excess of 8,000.

Thousands of people visit and try different activities that give a taste of the skills and challenges required in a range of careers. Learning through experience, visitors touch, taste, feel, smell, hear and most importantly meet staff face to face - things a website, leaflet or prospectus can never do.

This year, Hopwood Hall College promoted its Animal Care, Health and Social Care, Dental Nursing, Theatrical Media Make-Up and Electronic Engineering courses.

Theatrical Media Make-Up students were creating various movie make-up techniques such as scars, cuts and bruises on the schoolchildren who attended (see realistic-looking gashes on this young visitor’s face).

The Animal Care department brought along a menagerie of creatures for visitors to handle, including snakes, tarantulas, giant stick insects and lizards.

The Health and Social Care department offered interactive quizzes, alcohol awareness activities as well as various games relating to the human body.

The Electronic Engineering department’s ‘Buzz Off Challenge’ generated a buzz of excitement, as visitors competed to complete the circuit without setting off the sensor (see pic).

Transition and Marketing Officer, Nichola Martin commented: “This event is a huge opportunity for many learners across the North West to find out in-depth information about our college and the courses available to them. Our stand had more have a go activities than in previous years with a good selection of courses being represented that were very well received by the learners.”