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Key Details

Course Area:

Catering and Hospitality

Student Type:

Courses for 19+ students

Course Type:

Part-time FE course

Start Date:

Monday 28th April 2025

End Date:

Monday 7th July 2025

Time:

10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location:

Bakersfield Community Centre

Fees:

£78.75

Course code:

C053082 / Q053083

Course Introduction

Community courses are “first steps” for adults to learn new skills, develop confidence, meet others in welcoming classroom. The purpose of courses is to support students into further learning or employment (paid or voluntary).

This course is perfect if you want to make and decorate cakes, cupcakes for sale or family and friends. You will learn easy techniques to produce beautiful items.

You will learn the skills how to decorate easy cakes and learn how to bake them for sale and your family and friends, as well as learn how to make and decorate cakes of your choice with basic buttercream techniques and to piped and sugarpaste flowers that transform ordinary cakes and cupcakes into beautiful designs.

You can expect to learn a variety of baking skills, decoration skills and cover simple employability skills.

Students will need to have tools and equipment needed for the course. Students will be making cakes for projects and therefore will need ingredients. For the first lesson you will need to bring with you sugarpaste, fondant and tools, rolling pins, ball tools, craft knife.

You should attend regularly and arrive on time to make best progress on course.

You will complete a short diary weekly in class time, to record your progress and receive written tutor feedback.

You will use Microsoft Teams whilst on the course. Microsoft Teams is a free, safe online app used by Nottingham College for tutors to contact students.

Using Teams will also enable you to develop and feel confident using digital skills.

For more information on using Microsoft Teams and the induction process, please visit our Induction Information for Community Students page.
 

Course Information

No qualification awarded.

Other

There are no formal entry requirements but you must be aged 19+.

You will complete a weekly “Student Diary” and so ESOL students should be studying at entry 3 or higher to enrol on a Community course taught by non-ESOL tutor.

Tutors will give weekly verbal and written feedback. You will complete a short workbook and set your own personal targets, as well be progressing though the general course learning outcomes. This will help you and your tutors record progression on the course.

The course tutor and development workers can advise of other learning opportunities within Community faculty or signpost you to courses in other vocational areas of Nottingham College.

You will have the opportunity to receive progression guidance from an external locally based agency “Futures for You” whilst on the course.

If you are interested in progressing onto leisure courses in your chosen subject, you may have opportunities to do so at Nottingham College or be signposted to other leisure courses in the Nottingham area.

You will need to buy the items you need for the course. Please bring tools and equipment if you have them. Please bring with you sugarpaste/ fondant and something to bring things home in.

Some items will be provided for you to use for the first session

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