Ellie, Maeve and Kaycia

“Very happy, it was nice to come in as a group, rather than just getting your results online.”

Name: Ellie, Maeve and Kaycia

Course Studied: Level 3 Health and Social Care — Ellie: D*D*D*, Kaycia: D*DD, Maeve: D*D*D* 

Next Steps: Ellie is progressing to the University of Plymouth to study Midwifery. Kaycia is taking a gap year before applying for a Midwifery-related course in the future. Maeve is moving on to study 3D Design at Brighton. 

Ellie, Maeve and Kaycia interviewed together on results day, having spent two years studying Level 3 Health and Social Care side by side at Penwith Campus: “very happy, it was nice to come in as a group, rather than just getting your results online.” 

Ellie and Kaycia both joined from Helston Community College, with Maeve arriving from Mounts Bay Academy, and all three chose Penwith over staying on for sixth form:“the course options were more of a fit for me, to be honest. I didn’t want to stay in a school setting at all.” 

Already acquainted from a shared Health and Social Care course at secondary school, the three say College turned an acquaintance into a genuinely close friendship group. “It’s really close-knit, to be honest. We were going to McDonald’s a lot more than I care to admit.” 

The group is just as warm about the staff who taught them, praising a style of teaching that felt collaborative rather than top-down. 

“The staff! They were great fun, they were really informed, but appropriately, it wasn’t like you’d sit down, and they were teaching at you. Because the classes were small, it was so easy to communicate.” 

With their results secured, all three are heading in different, and equally exciting, directions. Ellie is off to the University of Plymouth to study Midwifery, while Kaycia is taking a gap year before applying for a Midwifery-related course of her own, and Maeve is moving on to study 3D Design at Brighton. 

For anyone considering joining the College, the group’s advice was unanimous. “Just do it. It’s such a nice application process; it takes ten minutes.” 

For Ellie, Kaycia and Maeve, College has been the place where a shared subject at secondary school grew into genuine friendship, where informed, approachable staff made two years of Health and Social Care feel like a partnership rather than a classroom, and where three very different next steps, midwifery, further midwifery study, and 3D design, all began with the same course, another story shaped by more than 30 years of Truro and Penwith College helping students find their place.