Adam Batty wins Guild of Bricklayer's Senior National competition

Congratulations to Adam Batty (a Barnsley College 3rd year bricklaying Apprentice) who has won the Guild of Bricklayer's Senior National competition, which was held at City of Liverpool College on the Thursday 20th June 2019.

To qualify for the national competition, Adam had to prove his worth by winning the Guild of Bricklayers Yorkshire Region Senior competition on the 31st May 2019 held at Bishop Burton College, so this is a double success for Adam.

Adam is employed by Fountain Developments LTD and has shown excellent work ethic, dedication and attitude to improve and develop into a superb bricklayer and person.

We are exceptionally proud of Adam and elated as a department, because his success means that we now have 3 national competition wins in the last 3 years.

Well done Adam!

Guild of Bricklayers National Final 2018

The national final of the Guild of Bricklayers competiton took place yesterday (27th June 2018) and we are delighted to announce that our students were successful once again.


Adam Batty came 2nd in the Junior national final and Morgan Chambers came third in the Senior national final. The competition was held at Brooklands College, Surrey.

 Well done lads - you're amazing bricklayers!

Skillbuild 2018

Congratulations to Adam Batty and Morgan Chambers who have earned further success at the Yorkshire and Humber heats of the Skill Build competition.

Just weeks after they both won first place at the Guild of Bricklayers regional heats, they have now secured places in the national final of the Skill Build competition. The heats took place at York college on the 21st June 2018.

Well done lads!

The Guild of Bricklayers Regional Heats 2018

Two of our bricklayers have taken part in the 2018 Yorkshire regional heats of the Guild of Bricklayers competition and have managed to bring home two first place trophies.

The competition took place on the 25th of May 2018 at Doncaster College and students from 14 colleges from across Yorkshire were invited to showcase their skills.

Adam Batty was awarded the trophy for the Yorkshire region junior brickwork competition:

Morgan Chambers is the Yorkshire region Senior winner:

We are extremely pleased with their success and look forward to the national final that will take place at Brooklands College in June.

Well done!

Construction & the Built Environment students have a tour of the Miller Homes Construction Site

 

Last Thursday, Barnsley College Construction students were invited by Miller Homes to visit their site in Honeywell, Barnsley and tour their current build project.

Miller Homes are a highly respected construction company who specialise within new build properties, they are based in Wakefield and have been established since 1934.

Students were inducted to the site before being presented with information about the company, the team and the actual project before going on tour of the whole site.

The students were shown around by the Site Manager – Nick Arnold, Build Manager – Paul Ramsbottom, Health & Safety Advisor – Tony Haig, Contracts Manager – Paul Archer and Production Secretary - Carol Ackroyd. It was very informative and the whole project was explained from the beginning with the different processes involved in the new build process. The staff and students were asking questions during the tour and it gave them a great insight of the project and the tasks involved.

The students are currently studying the Construction and the Built Environment course, so the site visit gave them all a better understanding of the tasks and sequences involved in a project like this. Also to find out about the issues that may occur on site and how these issues can be rectified to meet the builder’s requirements.

We would like to say a big thank you to Miller Homes for arranging the visit and hope they enjoyed meeting some of our students.

Morgan wins the Guild of Bricklayers Juniors Final

Great news!

After Morgan's success in the regional heats last week, Morgan has now won first place in the Guild of Bricklayers Juniors national final in Derby yesterday.

This is a great achievement in this prestigious national bricklaying competition.

 

Our Bricklaying tutor Michael Lindsay is very proud of Morgan's achievement. He states: 'The hard work and effort Morgan put in to practice prior to the competition and through the competition is credit to him and he thoroughly deserves the reward of achieving first place in a national competition.'

Well done Morgan!

Jack Pogson named the Barnsley College Plastering Apprentice of the Year 2017

Well done to Jack for winning the Plastering apprentice of the year award.

Jack has worked hard all year and put 100% effort in his theory sessions and practical.  Jack has 100% attendance and has improved his skills and knowledge every week by trying his best.

Well done Jack and keep up the great work!

Morgan achieves success at the regional Guild of Bricklayers competition 2017

Well done to Barnsley College Bricklaying student Morgan Chambers, who won the Guild of Bricklayers Yorkshire region Junior heat on Friday 16th June in the competition in Hull.

He will now compete in the Guild of Bricklayers final in Derby on Wednesday 21st of June.

Good luck for Wednesday Morgan!

2017 Inter-Trade Football Tournament winners

Every year the Construction department holds an Inter-Trade football tournament to celebrate the end of the academic year.

This year saw 6 teams made up of students from Brickwork, Plastering, Joinery, Professional Studies and Plumbing, competing for our silver shield. The tournament was won by the Professional Studies team, who won every match they played on the afternoon.

Well done Lads!



A site visit for the plumbing department

This week the construction department was given the opportunity to visit a Keepmoat housing development in Barnsley. 14 students from Barnsley College who are currently studying towards a level 1 Plumbing Diploma got to experience what it is like to be on a real construction site.

Katie Stafford the Social Value Manager and the Site Manager, Jamie Ellis, introduced Keepmoat and what the development was for. An H&S briefing was carried out and information on apprenticeships and development opportunities was also passed on to the students.

The Site Manager took the students around the site and into some of the houses allowing them to see the different fixing stages when building a house.

The students were given information that related to their actual course such as plumbing installations, the job roles of people working on the site, the site programme and scheduling, H&S, Quality standards that everyone works to, Inspections that take place, the importance of housekeeping and the potential earnings in the industry.

The site visit was invaluable as many of the students have not yet had the opportunity to see a live site and this visit gave them a better understanding by putting the training they have received in college and seeing it in a real environment.

All the students and staff really enjoyed the visit and can’t thank Keepmoat enough for the visit and the opportunity they have given two further students from Barnsley College to undertake a placement on the site in Athersley.

Students Visit Civil Engineering Site Junction 36 Birdwell, Barnsley

Barnsley college/university campus barnsley students recently enjoyed a visit to the ESH Group UK site on the A61 Birdwell junction on J36 in November 2016 which consists of a new highway construction and remodelling of the existing junction.
 

The site manager discussed health and safety awareness and risk assessments before heading out on to the site to look around for themselves.

 

 

This type of experience is invaluable for our students especially when you consider that very few of them have any experience in the civil engineering sector. They all thoroughly enjoyed it.

Construction Student of the Year Awards 2016

The Student of the Year Awards is an annual event that allows us to give praise to the students that have done exceptionally well over the academic year.

One student is chosen from every level of every trade to receive an award and the winners were all nominated by teaching staff for their hard work, attitude and dedication.

We also give out awards for students who have 100% attendance, as this is a great achievement in itself.

This year, the event took place in the CUBE construction building and parents, grandparents and friends came to watch the students receive their award from Vicky Slater, who is one of Barnsley College's assistant principles.

Here are a few photos from the event:

Owen Clarke - Level 1 Joinery

Logan Lawton - Level 1 Brickwork

Fabian Steele - Level 2 Brickwork

Vicky Thornton - Level 3 Brickwork

Lewis Needham - Apprentice Brickwork

Charlie Smith - Level 1 Plastering

Connor Rawson - Level 3 Plastering

Luke Herring -Plastering Apprentice

Connor Letherland - Apprentice Plasterer

Katie Tucker - Level 1 Painting & Decorating

Jess Heath - Level 2 P&D apprentice & the Fred Booker Award for Excellance

Luke Spence-Hirst - Level 3 P&D apprentice and the Les Schofield Award for Endeavour

Maciek Petka - Wall and Floor Tiling Level 2

Natanael Idan - Professional Studies Year 1 and 100% attendance award

Isaac Marshal - Professional Studies Year 2

Scott Wright - Professional Studies Apprentice Year 1

Aiden Platts - Professional Studies Apprentice Year 2

Cameron Noble - P&D Level 3 and GCSE Maths

Andrew Jowitt - GCSE Maths

Isaac Bower - GCSE English

Chelsea Cowlishaw - Plumbing Level 1 and GCSE English

Sam Leak - 100% Attendance

James Clancy - Plastering Apprentice Year 1

Gary Rodgers and Ricky Curtis

Gary Rodgers - Wall & Floor Tiling Apprentice Year 1

Ricky Curtis - Site Carpentry Level 3 apprentice

Well done to all involved.