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!

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!

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!

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.
 

Team BC at the Skillbuild Yorkshire and Humber regional heats 2016

This year Barnsley College had 9 students competing in the Yorkshire and Humber heats of the Skillbuild competition at Leeds College of Building. Our team was made up of Plasterers Alfie Robson and Charlie Smith, Bricklayers Vicky Thornton, Josh Kelly & Jack Evans, Painter and Decorator Jess Heath and Dry Liners Harrison Pilkington, Jack Syddall and Brad Speed.

SkillBuild is a multi-trade competition run by CITB (the Construction Industry Training Board) that has been running for over 45 years.  The Competition challenges the best construction students and apprentices from colleges all over the UK to test their abilities and skills. The winners from the regional heats will then compete in the national final with the chance to be crowned the overall SkillBuild winner in their chosen trade at the skills show.

Barnsley College brought home a 1st in Painting and Decorating Seniors, a 2nd in Plastering Seniors and a 3rd in Bricklaying Seniors. Three of our Dry Liners from the Horbury group also came 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Dry Lining Seniors. Well done to Team BC!

 Here are a few photos from the event: