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Overview
Please Note
This is a school-college partnership course. We can only accept online applications from Glasgow City school students (S4-S6). If you attend a different school please use the Contact Us button to get in touch.
This course is an ideal first step towards a career in the Construction Industry. This practical course will allow you to explore a variety of disciplines in our industry standard workshops, including woodworking, painting & decorating and tiling.
Initially classroom-based, after Christmas this becomes a hands-on and practical course where you’ll gain experience working with a variety of hand tools and assorted materials. You’ll discover how to create a variety of paint effects and practice how to mix different colours to match given paint samples. You’ll discover how to fix tiles to pre-prepared walls and floors.
This course also contains a focus on employability skills. You’ll develop working practices that will enhance your job prospects including timekeeping, health & safety awareness and team working. You’ll learn self-evaluation skills and how to adapt your performance in response to feedback.
Minimum entry requirements
Whilst there are no formal entry requirements you should be interested in a career in the construction industry, who have a reasonable level of numeracy and are capable of working at SCQF level 5
This course would suit students with good communication skills who are willing to work as part of a team. You should be able to act on instructions and be committed to working in a manner that supports health and safety at work.
What you study
- Employability Skills.
- Plasterwork Skills.
- Bench Joinery.
- Decorative Painting.
- Community Projects.
After the course
Construction is an innovative, impactful, and in-demand industry, with an additional 45,000 people needed to fill expected vacancies in the sector by 2031. This course could lay the foundation for a Modern Apprenticeship, working in a specific trade or a career in Civil Engineering and surveying.
Continuing Study
This course will allow students to make a more informed choice of progression within this highly rewarding industry. Graduates of this course will be able to progress onto full-time courses across the Construction department.
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How the course is taught
This course will be delivered through blended learning with demonstrations, lectures and practical activities.
Dress code
For classroom work you should wear what you feel comfortable in. Football tops are not permitted.
For the practical side of the course, you will be issued with steel-toed safety boots and work coveralls. Safety boots are to be worn at all times during practical activities, however, workwear must not be worn outside the construction hall or workwear cafe.