Falmouth Marine School CCSU

YOUNG PEOPLE CORNWALL - Summer Support

Well done and many congratulations to our FMS student Nikyle on winning a Star Award 🌟 🤩 👏

Summer Support Services and Helplines 2023

Fantastic Job Opportunity 🤩🤩🤩🤩

FUTURE FOUNDATIONS OPPORTUNITIES 👀👀👀👀

Finishing College and looking for a job? Boost your employability this summer!

Fully Funded 1-Day Employability Courses for those aged 16-24 who are not currently employed.

Would you like to gain an additional qualification that can boost your employability? The Future Foundations project will be delivering 1-day courses in July located in Truro, that will be beneficial for employers and look great on your CV!

You can choose to attend both or pick the one which is most suited to you. Most importantly, there is no cost to you as these courses are fully funded through the European Social Fund and Future Foundations Project.

Choose from:
• Customer Service (non-accredited workshop): Tuesday 25th July
• Award in Food Safety in Catering (accredited); Thursday 27th July

If you'd like to register your interest, please email [email protected]. Places are limited, so get in quick!

Type 1 Diabetes Youth Programme - Diabetes UK

Opportunities for students

More student opportunities!

Student Opportunities 👀👀👀

More Photos of our Spring Barbecue - Taken by Nat Theobold - Big Thanks to Nat for some amazing photos.

Falmouth Marine School Spring Barbecue - Thursday 25th May 2023.

Wow what an amazing event. Nat Forder-Jackett our amazing Caterer in the Sails Cafe organised, with the Support of the Student Experience Team and the LSEC at Falmouth, a Spring Barbecue to replace the Prom which unfortunately had to be Cancelled. Nigel Philips LSP/Technician Engineering, was also on hand as always to help and support. A massive thank you also to Sue Selwyn and Nat Theobold who worked alongside us to ensure we provided a good event for all the students. The afternoon, was full of GREAT food, awards, games and the Stocks, soaking the Teacher, which proved popular. Many thanks also to all the students that got involved to lend a hand, setting up, serving and cleaning down.

CCSU ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN............

Congratulations to Josh for winning the CCSU Vice President position. Congratulations to Summer and Winton who have won the votes for Falmouth LSEC Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Thank you to all our candidates for putting themselves forward and attending the Hustings events.

CCSU ELECTION RESULTS FROM ACROSS THE CORPORATION.......

Thank you to all the candidates that took part in the CCSU Elections. Many Congratulations to all the winners 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Mental Health Working Party

LSEC and Students

The college are redeveloping a mental health working group for staff and students, to carry out tasks in making The Cornwall College Group more effective when supporting mental wellbeing. It will be a college wide approach to improving mental health outcomes for our college.

We would really like some of our amazing students to input into the meetings. You would help to shape how we recognise and move forward with mental wellbeing in college. We all want to have a positive impact in new ways to support everyone, the student voice is really important to enable us to make any new plans really effective.

If you are interested, please contact Mel Thomas: [email protected]

Anna Freud Centre - Mental Health Link

Another really good link

On My Mind | Resources for Young People | Anna Freud Centre On My Mind aims to empower young people to make informed choices about their mental health and wellbeing. Click here to find out more.

AI Student Feedback Opportunity

An opportunity for students to be involved in an AI project for an amazon voucher


The National centre for AI in tertiary education are running two college student discussion forums – to identify student perceptions on AI. We would ideally like a mixed group of students at each forum (c20) and will give participating students £20 amazon voucher for taking part.

The sessions are:

24th May at 1pm - Please click link for sign up details
https://www.eventsforce.net/jiscevents/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=496543&eventID=1694&CSPCHD=000001000000lHLw5GJSSzjCWJxk$fxQlf3wgBY_bxiimHWdA7

25th May at 3pm – Please click the link or sign up details
https://www.eventsforce.net/jiscevents/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=496842&eventID=1695

Jisc AI in education - student discussion forum The National Centre for AI in tertiary education invites Further Education College Students to discuss the use of AI in their education.

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

It's Mental Health Awareness Week with a focus on anxiety

Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 The Mental Health Foundation is the home of Mental Health Awareness Week. Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 is taking place 15 to 21 May, and the theme is anxiety. Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual event where there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental....

CCSU ELECTIONS HUSTINGS 2023
2nd Round, Wednesday 10 May 2023
LSEC positions; Chairperson and Vice Chairperson

REMINDER - 2nd Hustings Event Tomorrow. This one will not be recorded and is for the local (site) positions;- Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Please ensure you have your questions ready for the candidates, to find out what they propose to do locally on site at Falmouth. Wednesday 10 May 2023 in Falmouth LRC 12.00 - 13.00. There will be cake 🎂🎂🎂🎂

CCSU ELECTION HUSTINGS
Thursday 4 May 2022

Falmouth CCSU Elections Hustings, Wednesday 4 May 2023. A great event, thank you to all the students that turned up to listen to our candidates give their speeches and answer questions. Lots of interest around the candidates values and opinions and what they can bring to the roles. We look forward to the next Hustings, Wednesday 10 May 2023.

Government Emergency Alarm - Test

The Government will be testing a national emergency alarm on Sunday 23rd April at 3pm. This will sound on your mobile phone even if you have it turned to silent.

This is a test, however, it may be used in a national emergency. More details can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/alerts

If you are a survivor of domestic abuse and/or carry a hidden phone for another reason, this is how you can turn off your alert on your hidden phone: Refuge has put together a video to show you how to disable the emergency alerts, with versions for both Apple and Android devices. You can watch the video here:
https://firstlight.us10.list-manage.com/track/click

NEW VOTING RULES - ID REQUIRED

While it's too late to register for the May elections now (previous information has been shared), students can still get a free ID from citizen card through NUS so please share the flyer below.

THE EASTER PAINT

The Cove has had a revamp. This shows the dedication of some of our students that gave up their own time in the Easter Holidays to come in and paint the SU at Falmouth. Many thanks to Summer- Vice Chair of the LSEC, Winton (nominee for all positions on the CCSU) and Winton's French Exchange student Naomi who have done an amazing job at bringing in some colour to what was a bland coloured room. Also a MASSIVE thanks to Leanne (Estates - St Austell) who donated the paint to us from St Austell's Paint Store and made this possible for us to achieve. The introduction of the colours also brings us in line with some of the other unions across the Corporation who have used similar colours, so we have some consistency amongst the spaces, yet with our own site personal touches. Many thanks to everyone that made this possible and the students for giving up their own time.

Well done to our Falmouth Marine School students 🤩🤩🤩 fantastic, many congratulations.

Well done to 2nd year Marine Biology students Sara, Malaika, and Tristan from for completing their Open Water course today.

They all adapted amazingly to becoming scuba divers and made my job easy. These guys now have a lifelong scubadiving qualification that they can take anywhere in the world. Congratulations!

As the summer months approach, we have lots going on, including PADI courses, guided dives, night dives, snorkelling, Paddleboard hire and much more.

Also, don't forget about our student guided dive special price, £95 for two dives. This includes full kit hire and air fills.

Pop into the hut on the beach if you would like to have a chat about anything, especially scubadiving.

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HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE - please have a safe and restful break.

There are support pages on this Moodle Page if you need them (you will need to be logged into your college account)

https://moodle.cornwall.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4754

[email protected] will be manned during normal college hours.

If there is an immediate risk of harm or abuse, or you need support out of hours, then please refer directly to the police on 101 or 999 or local authority safeguarding teams.

STI Information

There is also FREE Testing in Cornwall through BROOK - www.brook.org.uk

👀 👀 STUDENTS ....... FREE EVENT 👀 👀

Princess Pavillions, Falmouth - EVERY BRILLIANT THING

As part of our Mental Health and Su***de Prevention work, we are putting on an event featuring the Every Brilliant Thing play at the Princess Pavilion in Falmouth on 25th April. Tickets are free, but will need to be booked on our Eventbrite page, which is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/every-brilliant-thing-tickets-596677166467

Content warning: The story contains possible triggering and sensitive material. Mental health issues like depression and coping with the su***de of a loved one are part of the narrative.
The play will be followed by light refreshments and a Q&A session with the actor, Philip Robinson. We are hoping to have local mental health and bereavement services in attendance to ensure everyone’s safety, and show what support is available in Cornwall. There will also be a chance to find out how you can get involved in mental health awareness and su***de prevention as we are planning to have a member of the Healthy Cornwall team there to promote the local training opportunities.

Every Brilliant Thing A powerful, hilarious and poignant play

Cornwall College Students' Union Elections

Exciting News - we have our nominations for our CCSU Summer Elections.

CONGRATULATIONS To all our nominees standing for leadership positions for next year.

You can see their profiles here on Moodle (but will need to be logged into your college email account)
https://moodle.cornwall.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4968...

For anyone else interested, we will be looking for other positions later in the year.

Your candidates for Falmouth are.............

You Said We Did ....... FMS Display updated with current suggestions and actions taken from Term 2.

Cornwall College Students' Elections

Don't forget nominations close tomorrow at 4pm or Chair/Vice Chair and President/Vice President. If you want to get ahead and be part of CSEC for next year make sure your application is submitted today. Your campus EPO can help you if you are struggling to do this.

TODAY AT FMS - 16 March 2022

The Easter Egg Hunt went really well at FMS today, a lot of students engaged with this activity and said they found it fun. Students comments were that FMS should do an Easter Egg Hunt every year. All 22 small eggs hidden, were found. Winners of the THREE Golden Eggs were Sam, Winton and Martas.

Saturday 18th March is National Child Exploitation Awareness Day

Safer Cornwall Safer Cornwall is the Community Safety Partnership for Cornwall. It aims to reduce crime, disorder and antisocial behaviour.

We have launched a new digital partnership with Togetherall which will see people aged 16 and above given free access to an online peer-to-peer mental health support community.

Read the full story here: https://cornwallft.nhs.uk/news/access-to-new-mental-health-support-network-7926

Well done to our amazing Falmouth Marine School Staff Runners, who took part in the Falmouth Half Marathon on Sunday 12 March 2023. Danny O'Shea, Hannah Mason, Ben Pilling we are all so proud of you and how well you ALL did 🎖🎖🎖

How To Develop Your Personal Brand - So Employers & Universities LOVE You! 60 mins to help you really STAND OUT .....so you can SEIZE the opportunity! Including lots of great tips on using social media!