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Monthly Bulletin April 2016 Inside this issue... Page 2 - National Apprenticeship Week National Apprenticeship Week Page 5 Accrington & Rossendale College - Apprenticeships General Accrington and Rossendale College celebrated National Apprenticeships week in style, with a busy week of activities, awards and master classes all taking place to showcase the talents apprentices possess. Page 7 - Skills Funding Agency Throughout the week, members of the College’s Senior Leadership Team swapped the comforts of their offices to become apprentices for the day, with Principal Sue Taylor becoming a Construction Page 9 apprentice for the day! - BIS - GOV.UK The College also celebrated the success of its apprentices - AELP and their employers with its very own Apprenticeships - The Education & Training Awards Evening, held in the College’s Heartwood Centre Foundation and Roots Restaurant. Other activities included: Page 10 • Visiting partners to offer apprenticeship guidance - Fair Train • BATJIC Awards Ceremony - Lancs Forum Updates • Apprenticeships Awards Evening Sue Taylor Principal • School drop ins becomes an • Workshops with external partners apprentice Page 11 • Masterclasses - Dates for your Diary Training 2000 CEO and Engineering Apprentices in Job Swap Two engineering apprentices have taken part in a job swap with Training 2000’s CEO, as the training provider celebrates National Apprenticeship Week. William and Matthew, both first year apprentices who split their time between the Blackburn engineering centre and their employers, first had the opportunity to attend a management team meeting, where Steve Gray, Training 2000’s CEO, explained to them how the business runs and the role that both he and each company director holds. Following from this, the apprentices had the opportunity to showcase the work they are doing as part of their apprenticeship, demonstrating how to operate a Universal Milling Machine and demonstrating how to make a steel dice model, something they have learnt during their time at Training 2000. 1 www.lancsforum.co.uk William Said: “The job swap has been a great experience, we’ve been able to learn more about how the rest of Training 2000 operates and also share the skills we have developed during our apprenticeships with the CEO which was really good.” Matthew added: “This has been a really good experience and something which will be really useful as we carry on with our careers in engineering.” Steve Gray, Training 2000 CEO said: “It was good to spend some time with William and Matthew, learning about them, the businesses they work for and how they have developed during their apprenticeships with us so far. It was also interesting to hear what they would like to achieve through the course of their careers, and hopefully this job swap has given them an insight into how a business like Training 2000 runs, which will be really useful for them going forward, and it was great for me being instructed by William and Matthew in operating a Universal Milling machine after my first instruction 36 years ago when I started on my Engineering apprenticeship.” Preston’s College ‘Your Future Career’ event During National Apprenticeship week a whopping 453 young people gained information about life in the workplace as part of a national drive to help them with future employment. The 14 to 24-year-olds attended the latest ‘Your Future Career’ event held by the Young Chamber of Commerce at Preston’s College, one of the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce’s patron members. More than 40 companies exhibited at the event, including Chamber centenary patron, RBS, as well as Ultimaker, another of the Chamber’s patron members. Also Virgin Trains, Blackburn Rovers, Hays, Premier Inn, Cuadrilla, OBAS UK and Lancashire County Council. As well as hearing from those companies, those in attendance could also visit workshops on CV writing, interview techniques and the local area’s growing industries. Region’s top Apprentices honoured at for the work we do with Blackburn College to develop our apprentices.” Blackburn College’s annual awards A total of 12 apprentices and 23 employers were presented A number of Lancashire’s top apprentices and Employers with certificates in apprentice-related subject areas including: have been honoured at an annual awards ceremony. sport; health and social care; childcare; hairdressing and beauty therapy; catering and hospitality; construction and Students and businesses from across the region engineering; business, law and accounting; computing from Blackburn through to Manchester, attended the and IT; textile and apparel; motor vehicle and business and Apprenticeship Awards held at Blackburn College to supporting teaching and learning. celebrate the achievements of the past year. The annual Apprenticeship Awards, which were held during A Blackburn student who progressed from a Traineeship National Apprenticeship Week, took place on campus at the to an Apprenticeship has been honoured for outstanding Beacon Centre and were hosted by Richard Slater Publishing achievements, taking home the accolade of Apprentice of Editor of Lancashire Business View. the Year. Lee Boyle, 17, a Level 2 Business Administration Apprentice at Blackburn College said he was delighted to win the award. Congratulations also went to award-winning Northcote Group, owned by celebrity chef Nigel Haworth, which was named Apprentice Employer of the Year. Tom Geraghty HR adviser for Northcote, said: “We are really pleased to win the award. It is great to have recognition 2 www.lancsforum.co.uk Nelson and Colne College RWP Brainwave!! celebrates National As the young people we are trying to engage Apprenticeship Week! were in school on National Apprenticeship Week, RWP had a brainwave and decided to Two students becoming MPs for the go to them instead. day and a College Principal going “back to the floor” to see what life is like as an We ran a Schools Roadshow and travelled apprentice were just two of Nelson and throughout Cumbria and Lancashire in our Colne College’s National Apprenticeship RWP Smart Cars visiting local secondary schools to provide IAG to year 11’s and Week highlights. sixth formers. We tracked our route on Facebook via a live feed and uploaded pictures along the way. One of this year’s key themes was “rise to the top”, and to celebrate NCC’s Principal Amanda Melton paid a visit to bike part manufacturer Hope Tech, Runshaw Business Centre Hospitality and Catering in Barnoldswick, to see apprentice Apprentices wow with a lunch to celebrate National Cameron Monk on his journey to his dream job. Apprenticeship Week. Every year the Runshaw Business Centre hosts its own week-long celebrations, with various events helping to raise awareness of the benefits of Apprenticeships. The week culminated with the annual employers lunch which was held at Runshaws training facility ‘The Bistro’ at the Langdale Road Campus in Leyland. The event saw Runshaw Hospitality Apprentices cook up and serve a delicious three- course meal to local employers. Other activities taking place for National Apprenticeship Week included students Kirsty Browit receives special award giving an insight into a typical day as from Rathbone Training an NCC apprentice on social media, and two students shadowing Pendle An 18-year-old fulfilling her ambitions of working with children has MP Andrew Stephenson for the day to been presented with a special award by Rathbone Training as become apprentice MPs. part of National Apprenticeship Week. Syed Jawad Ali, 17, from Nelson, and Kirsty Browit, from Wigan, who is working as a childcare Aaron Hamilton, 22, from Burnley, apprentice at Parsons Walk Nursery was given a learner award because of her got to speak to Mr Stephenson about dedication to her qualification and the great relationship she has developed with the role of MP, and accompany him her colleagues as well as the parents and children. on a range of visits, including to Barnoldswick’s Silentnight to talk about apprenticeships, Brierfield Library to Myerscough College speak to In Situ and Super Slow Way and Nelson and Colne College for Below is just one of the many activities the Rotary BAE Systems Technical that took place at Myerscough College Tournament. during National Apprenticeship week. AOC Regional Director Richard is Apprentice for a Day As National Apprenticeship Week continues, we took the Regional Director of the Association of Colleges, Richard Caulfield, out on a day out to experience a day in the life of a Myerscough College apprentice. Our first stop was at Avro Golf Club, near Stockport in Cheshire, to meet apprentice greenkeeper, Wayne Atkinson, and Course Manager, Eddie Ainsworth. 3 www.lancsforum.co.uk Local Pupils bring Richard was shown the full range of duties Wayne has to carry out as part of his daily workload and got to experience first-hand what it’s like ‘on the job’. This Careers to Life included operating and driving a ride-on mower and sidewinder, tee renovation and turf management, equipment maintenance and the important part ecology To celebrate National Careers Week and natural habitat plays in the daily operations of the club. and National Apprenticeship Week, West Lancashire College opened their Skelmersdale Campus to over 1500 Themis hit the road with Have-A-Go activities in local school pupils and the student local schools population of West Lancashire College. The aim to educate and inspire pupils Themis at Burnley College took to the road for National Apprenticeship and college students on their future Week throughout Pennine Lancashire all week to host interactive hands-on careers. Apprenticeship activities. Students and pupils from the local Year 10 students from Our Lady and St. John Catholic College in Blackburn area and beyond had the opportunity took part on Thursday 17 March following the success of activities at Hameldon to engage in activities with more than Community College in Burnley and Colne Primet Academy on Tuesday 15 March.