Wonderful week of diversity at John Wheatley College

John Wheatley College’s students have, in the past week, helped to mount one of the best Week of Diversity events yet. This themed event, on St Andrew’s Day, has successfully been going for several years now.

Sparkling Performances

The week opened with a spectacular show of national costume and culture, choreographed by the creative staff at Visual Statement and delivered by the John Wheatley College’s own Enhanced Vocational Inclusion Programme (EVIP) students, who wowed the audience with their confident and sparkling performances. 

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The EVIP learners are a classic example of the huge changes that can be brought about by further education, and by John Wheatley College in particular.  These are young people, generally under 16yrs, who attend through GCC Education Services and often have a range of barriers and challenges to overcome in their learning. 

This year, they have excelled themselves in achieving such a level of confidence and displaying their teamworking, problem solving and communication skills.  They were excellent!

Delicacies from around the world

Hospitality and Catering students moved among the audience with platters of delicacies from around the world which they had prepared themselves -  delicious!

Tremendous contribution

Everyone’s contribution demonstrated the efforts made to celebrate diversity in the community and the John Wheatley College’s aim to ensure that equalities learning is embedded within all its programmes and in the character of its students.

Contributors and partners

in partnership with several other local and city organisations, the College has staged a range of exhibition, workshop and participation events, including valuable contributions from the following :
Strathclyde Police, Women’s Aid, Enable Scotland, Routes Into Learning, the Community Health Partnership, Glasgow City Council, Visual Statement, Visibility, Starcatchers, Larch and Hullabaloo Nurseries, JWC Student Association, Out of the Darkness Theatre Company, Platform, Glasgow Life Library Staff, Scotland’s Colleges and HE Partnership, Jill Clark, Debbie Tolson of Glasgow Caledonian University, Stephanie Crookston, Chris Kerr, Peter McMahon and Serwat Asmat.

The many College staff who have been involved in organising and staging the Week of Diversity should have much to feel pleased about  -  Congratulations to everyone involved!

News 12/12/2011