How nail students have been keeping busy during lockdown
By Guest Writer | 27 May 2020 | Feature, Tech Talk, Training
Sarah Brenton-Sara, lecturer in Level 2 & 3 Nail Services & Beauty Therapy at Truro & Penwith College, reveals how her students have been learning & developing their skills during lockdown…
Remote teaching from Truro & Penwith College is going well – and lockdown has definitely not hampered the learning of our students. I think that the situation has pushed we lecturers to be more creative in our delivery. My advice to fellow educators would be to deliver live demonstrations, laugh with students and show them that you are happy and coping with the lockdown, no one wants to see a negative face for sure.
Create collages of photographs that students have sent you and then put them on social media (if they give consent) to really boost their confidence. Check in with your students not just at lesson times. The response we have received at our college is amazing and makes you very proud to be part of their journey.
Utilising what we have at home
Nails by Katie Butler
I encouraged my part time level 3 nail students to practice full sets on training hands, Flexi fingers or false tips, and they haven’t disappointed. They have been submitting images of their practice sessions and they are doing so well.
Katie Butler has created a set on a training hand, and even added a personal touch to make it realistic by adding a ring onto the finger. She’s very talented and her nail art is coming along brilliantly. Watch this space, as I feel she will go far.
Sophie Lumley has been juggling children with remote learning ensuring she is getting in her practice sessions, and she is producing nail art and full sets of nails on false tips.
Amy Osborne has been practicing on her own fingers and toes, and has created a great marble nail art, while Katie Weeks has produced a great set on her own fingers. With a lot of patience and careful application she even mastered both hands and produced a fabulous French.
Collate evidence any way you can
The competition unit is going full steam ahead even with the lockdown restrictions. The students have been creating amazing designs to suit the theme of Sustainability. They are going to submit all evidence to me which will include what they had planned for the actual competition itself. Images of the model’s outfit and make-up, along with a full set of competition nails, will then be judged by our team of staff to reveal the winners.
Natalie Kellow
The topics that have been chosen to represent the ways the students’ imaginations capture sustainability are so ‘out of the box’. There are environmental issues being created from saving the planet with polar bears being made 3D to upcycling old jewellery rather than buying new, so 3D items of jewellery are going to be displayed on the nails.
Bee and honey creations have been shown by Aimee White and Leanne Tegg has made the most adorable snail out of a miniature beach shell and acrylic. Natalie Kellow has started to make a treasure chest of jewels. I am so excited to see the finished creations!
Combine techniques & your creative thoughts
Bailie Robins
The combined nail and make-up qualification students were given a project to paint arms, hands and nails, and had to choose a theme from something that had inspired them that day. They enjoyed this project as it was different to the usual task, either body art, or nail art. They liked the idea to combine all three.
Bailie Robins chose the topic of a cactus as she loves them and created the most delightful set. Tean Hosking has been working on her theme taken from the river near her home. Brooke Tristram created the sun and the moon, such a lovely idea.
Nails by Brooke Tristram
Tutorial support
To keep students engaged further, we are continuing with online quizzes, Kahoot, daily diaries and the isolation photographs are still coming.
For the usual tutorials before lockdown, an anti-bullying project was created by Michelle McCoon where the students needed to research their interpretation of anti-bullying. So, Michelle decided to deliver it over this isolation period and the results were fabulous.
Magan Martin and Alisha Trathen from the part time group produced stunning results, along with Bailie and Brooke once again showing off their skills.
More remote learning ideas are to come!