Practical Craft Skills
What will I learn?
The Course is practical and experiential in nature. It focuses on the development of practical woodworking and/or practical metalworking skills. It provides opportunities for learners to gain practical craft skills in the use of a range of tools, equipment and materials, working with wood, manufactured boards and/or metals. It allows learners to follow a series of activities through to the completion of a finished item.
The Course provides opportunities to develop and enhance practical creativity and practical problem- solving skills, and to gain an appreciation of safe working practices in a workshop or similar environment.
How will I learn?
Various projects are delivered throughout the year that are designed to develop and push all students creative and motor skills.
Students will have the opportunity to personalise and develop unique skills that will be different from their peers, which creates a challenging environment where each student learns new skills from each other.
A healthy, team based environment is formed early on which helps develop a full understanding of all industrial standards.
How will I be assessed?
This course is comprised of three units which broadly cover the types of activity undertaken by professional personnel within the Construction industry.
There is no written exam and the course is fully assessed during the academic year in class.
Career Opportunities
Our local community actively seeks skilled professionals with varying modern apprenticeships available to keen students. Students that enjoy Practical Woodworking should consider careers, such as; Joinery, Craft Work, Electrical Engineering, Furniture Manufacture, Plumbing, Toolmaking, Pipefitting, Engineering, Motor Vehicle Repair, Vehicle Body Repair, Welding and Fabrication, Blacksmithing, Carpentry and Painting and Decorating.
