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Lambing season has arrived!
The recent weather might be sunny one day, and stormy the next, but that hasn't stopped the spring lambs. Lambing season is officially in full swing; this critical time in the farming calendar sees approximately 500 lambs born at Plumpton College.
Our annual Raising & Giving Day
Over the years, Plumpton College staff and students have raised over £10,000 for local and national charities. This year our fundraising efforts will be donated to Naning'Oi, a girls' school in Kenya that we have been supporting to become fully self-sufficient.
Bakers Roundtable
We held our first ever Bakers Rountable at our new AgriFood building for local bakers.
Plumpton College secures AoC Beacon Awards win for Education for Sustainable Development
The FE Sussex Partnership has won the prestigious Beacon Edge Award in The Nous Group Award for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
The judging panel met a range of staff, students and governors from colleges across the...
It's World Autism Acceptance Week 2023
This year for World Autism Acceptance Week, we've put together a range of activities for staff and students to learn more about Autism.
Plumpton College win award at the Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2023
We are thrilled to have won the Sales, Marketing, Procurement Apprenticeship Provider of the Year Award at The FE Week and AELP AAC Apprenticeship Awards 2023.
Level 3 students support a local primary school with a rainwater harvesting project
The Sustainability Committee at Plumpton College have gone on tour! Part of their outreach has led them to St Margaret’s Primary School, along with Animal Management students Victoria and Blayne, to work on a rainwater harvesting project with the Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust.
Launch of Plumpton College Bake Off for Year 9 & 10 Food Tech students!
To celebrate our new AgriFood Centre and training kitchen, we are very excited to launch 'Plumpton Bake Off' - a bakery competition for Food Tech students with a topical Coronation theme.
Year 9 & 10 students are to pair up and...
Event launch of training kitchens in the AgriFood Centre with Table Talk Foundation and Adopt A School
We were delighted to welcome Table Talk Foundation and Royal Academy of Culinary Arts' Adopt a School to the new AgriFood Centre, where they launched their involvement in the new training kitchen located in the centre, to their supporters.
Plumpton College awarded Shared Prosperity Fund for Green Skills Project
The FE Sussex Partnership has been awarded £32,000 funding for a Green Skills project as part of Arun District Council’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund programme.
Learn more about our history
Since the original 400-acre College farm was bought back in 1919, Plumpton College has certainly seen a lot of changes.
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