Hoping to go to college?
This page includes helpful information if you are planning to go to college.
What help is available?
Ask your school or college SENCO and careers advisers about how they can help you decide on:
- Which course
- Which college
- How to get help with your application
- Look on the college websites or look at the Peterborough Post-16 Education Offer 2024 - 2025 to help you
- Choose a course and apply
Video Tours
See our colleges
Some of our colleges have recently made information videos to help you familiarise yourself with the buildings. Keep checking this page and the college websites for these updates.
City College Peterborough Tour
View a virtual campus tour of Peterborough College on this webpage
Open Evenings for Colleges for the next academic year
City College Peterborough
- 20th April 2024 10-1pm
The Inspire Group
Peterborough College
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27th March 2024 5.30 – 7.30pm
Stamford College
- 20th March 2024 5.30 – 7.30pm
Applications - online or postal?
Applications
City College Peterborough
City College Peterborough SEN Support - Meet the team:
City College Peterborough post 16 courses and application form:
Peterborough College
Peterborough College support:
Peterborough College courses
- Application forms are online within the specific course area
Stamford College
Stamford College support
Stamford College courses
- Application forms are online within the specific course area
Interviews, offers and what happens next
Once you have applied to a college, you will be offered either an interview or a conditional or unconditional offer.
Links to courses
Follow these thinks to find various courses
This may help any young adults who are transitioning to college this academic year and have not decided on a place.
You will find lotsof details on the Send Information Hub webpage
College course details
The Five Day Offer
Who is the Five Day Offer for?
The 'Five Day Offer' is a supportive framework which focuses on young people aged 16+ (with a learning disability) who are leaving full time education. It helps them to develop links around further learning, independent living skills, volunteering, paid work and leisure in their local community.
You will typically have had an Education, Health and Care plan
- Be aged 16-25
- Will have a recognised learning disability
What is the Five Day Offer?
The purpose of the Five Day Offer in Peterborough is to help prepare you to make a successful transition to adulthood.
Through primary and into secondary school you have been used to doing something every day, Monday to Friday. As you move on to college and 6th form you might find that most further education and post 16 courses are offered over three days.
The Five Day Offer is a package of provision and support across education, health and care that can be put together to meet your needs to cover up to five days a week. The five days do not have to be at one provider. They can include time in different settings and with different providers and include a range of activities to compliment the education outlined within your EHCP.
There is no requirement to have a five day offer and some young people are able to structure their week to build in their existing hobbies, interests, part-time work or volunteering or are able to undertake coursework and homework independently or with other students outside of lessons, as well as socialising with their college or 6th form peers with the education environment.
The package, which does not need to include study towards formal qualifications, can include activities such as:
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volunteering or community participation
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work experience
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independent travel training
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skills for living in semi-supported or independent accommodation
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training to develop and maintain friendships
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access to local facilities
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physiotherapy
These activities can tie in with vocational studies, for example, volunteering in a work area you are studying or be different and linked to your hobbies or interests.
What can it cover?
The Five Day Offer in Peterborough can be built around your existing post 16 education; for example courses delivered at our three colleges
- City College Peterborough
- Peterborough College
- Stamford College
How to put a Five Day Offer together
From year nine onw,ards at the annual review of your EHCP, the four Preparing for Adulthood themes will be discussed. The discussions will focus on the outcomes you want to achieve under each heading:
- Employment and education
- Friends, Relationships and Community
- Independent Living
- Good Health
Once you have had an offer of a place or started at college or 6th form; you will have an idea of your typical week at college and what days you will do which lessons and any work experience or placements. There will be things in your EHCP that you would like to do/achieve.
Step One
First have a discussion with tutor/EHCP coordinator and build up a typical week taking your college time table as starting point, then think about what else you would like to do. Write out a timetable for the week and add activities you are doing for each day.
Step Two
Identify opportunities from a range of sources – this can be existing websites, or through a discussion with your family or others who know you well. You can then add these to your typical week.
You don’t have to do activities across all five days and can put together a timetable for four days, as the Five Day Offer can be up to five days. It is also okay to plan in some time with your friends or family or individual study.
Step Three
You might find that something you really want to do (for example swimming or sailing) is only available on a day you are timetabled to be at college. Sometimes college can swap days so talk to your tutor about swapping college sessions if there is only one day when an activity is on offer.
Where to find opportunities
There are lots of places to find out about opportunities to include in your Five Day Offer.
Get Yourself Active is a national programme which aims to find ways for disabled people to get active in their local area. It is run nationally and supported by Inspire Peterborough and Disability Peterborough. Click on the blue links below to go to the websites to find lots of information about local sporting activities.
You can also put disability Peterborough into the keyword search box on the top of any of the Local Offer pages, to find a list of things to do. Here are a few examples:
Peterborough Disabled Angling Academy
English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS)
Disability Sports Programme - Peterborough Adapted Cycling Scheme
Access to Work grant scheme
Access to Work is a government grant scheme which supports disabled people in work. Access to Work might pay for:
- a British Sign Language interpreter
- specialist equipment
- extra transport costs, such as a taxi where no public transport is available
Access to Work can also pay for assessments to see what you need at work. You can apply for Access to Work up to six weeks before you start work.
Find lots more information on the SCOPE website