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!

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.

Johnstone's Young Painter of the Year 2016

Two of our Painting & Decorating students took part in the 2016 Johnstone's Young Painter of the Year competition at Doncaster College on Tuesday 26th April 2016.

Katie and Jess were chosen to represent Barnsley College in the Yorkshire heat and they had 6 hours to set out and paint the wall to strict specifications.

Both students did extremely well and completed the work on time and to a good standard. Jess also managed to achieve first place and has gained a position in the national final in Coventry in November.

Well done to both students!

Employers needed for Work Experience Placements

The construction department at Barnsley College are always looking for employers that can offer a valuable placement opportunity to our full time students.

 

Work experience has become part of the study programme for all young people attending college full time. It gives them a real insight into what the job they are training to do is like and also prepares them for work in general – timekeeping, presentation, communication, responsibility and hard work.  

We are always looking for new ideas on how to give our students work related experience and find the following to be most beneficial to employers:

-          Two week block - students participate for 2 weeks on dates pre-arranged with the college

-          One day a week – This can help companies who already have apprentices and have to attend college one day a week to complete their technical certificates. You could cover this day with a student on work experience.

-          Apprenticeship trials – if you are thinking of recruiting an apprentice then work experience is a great way to trial students before actually making that commitment to employ them.

If you would like to be involved in supporting young people in construction please contact myself Nicola Barratt on 07824 607 088 or n.barratt@barnsley.ac.uk