Thank You notes from Barugh Green Primary School Children

The children that attended the Santa's Grotto and activity afternoon from Barugh Green Primary school have created a book of thank you notes, which was kindly sent to us to show their appreciation of the event. Here are the entries:

 

It is good to know that they all enjoyed the event. Thanks for showing your appreciation in such a nice way.

Visit from Barugh Green Primary to Santa's Grotto 2013

On the 16th of December 2013 the department was happy to welcome a large group of primary school children from Barugh Green primary to take part in construction activities and meet Santa in his Grotto.

Each trade area arranged tasks for the children to do within small groups on a rotation, so that each child had the opportunity to take part in all activities, which included:

• helping to build an arch in Brickwork
• creating patterns and rag rolling with Painting and Decorating
• learning how to bend copper pipe with Plumbing
• creating a pan stand with the Joiners
• plaster casting Christmas ornaments with Plastering
• tile mosaicing Christmas pictures with Tiling.

Here are a few photos of the children undertaking the activities:

The afternoon concluded with a performance by the children who sang 'Santa Buddy' for the staff as a way of saying thank you.

During the song, Santa arrived and was waiting in his grotto to meet the pupils and give them all a Christmas gift:

It was great that all the hard work by are own students to create the Grotto was appreciated by the local children on such a wonderful afternoon.

 

Here is a video from the afternoon too, showing the students singing Santa Buddy for the staff to say Thank You.

 

Construction Christmas 2013

Christmas in the Construction department is a big deal, with many students eager to create festive themed work. Here are some photographs of the Santa's Grotto that was made this year:

Great work by everyone involved. Well Done!

Ryan Davidson wins a Proud of Barnsley Award

Here is an extract from the Barnsley Chronicle's Proud of Barnsley 2013 supplement, showing Ryan Davidson with his award. He won the apprentice of the year award for 2013 and is currently studying Painting and Decorating with us on day release from his job at Berneslai Homes.

 

Further details can be found at: http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/proudofbarnsley

 

Well done Ryan!

Open Evening: 27th of November 2013

Barnsley college has regular open evenings throughout the year to allow potential new students to get a taste of the courses we have available.

At the latest open evening the Construction trades had a competition to see who could create the most interactive and enjoyable stand.

Here are a few photographs from the event:

Craig, Josh, Bradley and Tutor Chris

Wall and Floor Tiling

Wallpapering demonstration

Contemplating his options

Stencilling with Al

Making pan stands with Joinery

The impossible task

Super Mario tile mosaic

Ryan is Bob the Builder

Stencilling demonstration

Inter-trade team work

Sponge work

Josh & Brad with completed wallpapering task

Craig tries out Bob

 

The department would like to give special thanks to the students who helped out at the trade stands, because they gave up their own time to ensure that all the visitors had an informative time.

Shoot to Score Competition

The Shoot to Score competition was a fund raising activity run by the Bricklayers to raise money for a local bowel cancer charity.

Students were asked to pay 50p to take five shots at the goalie model, where if they shot the ball through the big circle they were awarded 10 points and they were given 20 points if they scored in the small circle.

Students from both brickwork and plastering took part and we managed to raise £31.

There was a prize for the highest scorer, who was brickwork apprentice Jordan Bray. He scored 80 points with 5 shots and was awarded a Stabila level for his efforts.

Craig Brook achieves success in the Dulux Pitch2Win competition

Painting and Decorating student Craig Brook took part in this year's Pitch2Win competition, which is an annual contest run by Dulux to find the next new Dulux Select decorators.

Craig had to create a business plan for the competition and was one of only five chosen to pitch his ideas to the Dulux panel in a 'Dragon's Den' style contest.

Craig was awarded 3rd place for his efforts and his prizes include funds, equipment and advice to help his business, Brook Decor, get off the ground.

Here he is with tutor Chris Styan receiving his award:

 

Well done Craig!