The Equality and Diversity Competition 2013

The Equality & Diversity competition is an annual College-wide contest, were students from all departments create a piece of work that reflects an aspect of Equality & Diversity. This year's theme was 'Respect' and the Construction entry was a large ornately-mosaiced domed room that has been constructed and decorated at the Barugh Green site.

The winners of the competiton were announced in the Atrium as part of the Equality & Diversity event, where all the entries that reached the final were printed onto T-Shirts. Here is our T-shirt, which appeared on the finalists washing line.

The photograph below shows plastering student Michael Taylor & Tiling student David Cunningham with tutors at the Equality & Diversity event waiting for the winners of the competition to be announced.

Their entry into the Equality & Diversity competition reached the final, but didn't win the prize. Regardless of this it's an amazing piece of work, which we are looking forward to showing off to visitors during the Skillbuild competition in June.

Student of the Year Awards 2013

The Student of the Year Awards is an annual celebration of the students in each trade area that have excelled themselves.

The learners are nominated by their tutors for their hard work, determination, good attendance and great attitude. They are usually high achievers who have put in extra effort or have overcome barriers to become a success. These students are the ones we expect to go onto great things in the future, either in College or employment.

Here are the photos from this year's event:

Brickwork: tutor Wayne Lumb with Apprentice Level 2 winner Joe Crossley.

Joinery winners : Daniel Creighton, Zak Markwell, Dom Wiggan & Arya Dehghani.

Plastering: James Bowker, Luke Mason, Rob Charlesworth, Craig Perry, Ryan Hopkinson & Michael Gordan Taylor

Plastering Tutors including Mark Whitham, Mark Speight, Wayne Davies & Steve Eggleton.

Painting & Decorating winners: Ryan Davidson, Chris Hughes & Jerome Harber.

Wall & Floor Tiling: Jason Cook & Megan Reed.

Plumbing students: Robert Marshall, Daniel Thwaites, Lloyd Johnson & Bradley Allott.

Essential Skills winner: Mathew Shillito with tutor Alison Docherty.

Sarah Watson being presented with the Les Schofield Award for Endeavour.

Beth Smith receiving the Fred Booker Award for Excellence.

Thanks to all the award winners, tutors and family members who attended the event for making it such a positive celebration.