Jewellery - Absolute Beginners
This Jewellery course is suitable for complete beginners. It will give you the basic skills you need to design and make jewellery in a structured environment. You will be given projects, with plenty of demonstrations, help and guidance.
Creative Web design with Adobe Photoshop and Wordpress
This course is designed to give practical and creative skills in building a website for a business or a personal portfolio using Adobe Photoshop and Wordpress.
Woodwork Design and Make Wooden Furniture
This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to design and make original items of furniture. You will be given demonstrations on woodworking techniques and guidance on your own unique project.
Digital Technologies and Computer Science - Access to HE
This course will be delivered online.
This course will develop your skills and knowledge in Digital Technologies and Computer Science - an industry with growing opportunities for employment. This includes roles in computer science, games design, cybersecurity, AI, Data Science, programming and web development.
This is an advanced level course designed to prepare you for university, and the completion of this Level 3 diploma will give you the qualification required to do so. The course can also be used to support your entry into employment or into an apprenticeship or degree apprenticeship within your chosen sector.
Many students progress onto their chosen field of study at university, with others progressing into employment or into an apprenticeship related to their course of study. In 22/23, access learners received offers from a range of universities, including from Sheffield, Bournemouth, St Mary's, Queen Mary's, University of the Creative Arts, UAL, Brunel, Goldsmiths, Greenwich, Ravensbourne, Kingston, Westminster and Portsmouth. For Digital Technologies learners, this has included offers in Cybersecurity, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science and Games Design and Development.
Autocad for Interior Designers Intermediate
This course will be delivered online.
Following on from AutoCAD for Designers - Introduction, or for students who have had some experience of using AutoCAD, this intermediate progression course is designed for those seeking to gain enhanced knowledge of the software and to add professional quality to their 2D designs.
The aim of the course is to practically teach the advanced techniques required to assist you in your career development, using clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and to create a portfolio of work displaying your skills to take to interview, either for employment or further education purposes.
Computing - Access to HE
This is an advanced level course that will develop your skills and knowledge in Computing; a field with an exciting range of employment opportunities that require both your practical skillset and your theoretical knowledge.
Access courses are specifically designed to prepare you for university, and the completion of this Level 3 diploma will give you the qualification required to do so. The course can also be used to support your entry into employment or into an apprenticeship within your chosen sector.
Sketch-Up for Designers
This course will be delivered online.
An introduction to Sketch-Up - a 3D modelling visual software which is free, easy to learn and can be applied with many uses in interior and other 3D design.
Art and Design for Wellbeing - Introduction
This course is designed to provide you with creative freedom as to how you wish to express yourself with creative media, with outlines in place to guide you through the creative journey & its variable creative outcomes.
Hillcroft Centenary Book: Front Cover Design Competition
WIN £100 AND YOUR DESIGN ON THE FRONT COVER! Showcase your work in our exciting art competition. This year we are celebrating 100 years of women’s education at Hillcroft by publishing a commemorative book including all the entries from our recent Creative Writing Competition. These pieces of work...
ViewJewellery Advanced Practice
This jewellery course is suitable for learners with an advance level of jewellery making skills or those wishing to learn advanced skills.
Through set projects you will learn a range of skills while working with silver and some gold. You will learn advanced stone setting and wax carving skills, how to repair or remake jewellery pieces and how to add colour through patina and enamelling using hot and cold enamels.
You will learn through hands on demonstrations, group work, design sessions, gallery exhibitions/museum visits, tutor guidance and support.
Basic materials can be purchased during the classes.
