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Carpentry

YOU HAVE AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN IN SITE CARPENTRY. THE DEPARTMENT AIMS AT TEACHING TRAINEES WHO WANT TO WORK IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. YOU WILL LEARN A WIDE RANGE OF SKILLS FROM HANGING DOORS TO CREATING STUD WALLS TO ROOFING. FOR TRAINEES WHO PROVE THEMSELVES, AN NVQ L2 IS POSSIBLE. YOUR TRAINING HERE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD BACKGROUND TO GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP COURSE WHEN YOU LEAVE OR GAINING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

Carpentry

YOU HAVE AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN IN SITE CARPENTRY. THE DEPARTMENT AIMS AT TEACHING TRAINEES WHO WANT TO WORK IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. YOU WILL LEARN A WIDE RANGE OF SKILLS FROM HANGING DOORS TO CREATING STUD WALLS TO ROOFING. FOR TRAINEES WHO PROVE THEMSELVES, AN NVQ L2 IS POSSIBLE. YOUR TRAINING HERE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD BACKGROUND TO GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP COURSE WHEN YOU LEAVE OR GAINING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

Our Carpentry Department can help you to...

  • Get your licence to work on sites (CSCS Card)
  • Get Working at Heights, Manual Handling & Emergency First Aid qualifications
  • Create frames, studwork and joists
  • Learn door lining and hanging
  • An NVQ L2 for trainees who prove themselves
  • No prior experience is necessary as full training is given

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Learning basics of the trade and gaining work experience.

Complete Level 1 basic theory course.
By the end of Level 2, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:

  • CSCS
  • Driving Theory
  • Emergency First Aid
  • Manual handling
  • Working at Heights
  • Health & Safety

Examples of dept skills you can learn;

  • Producing a range of basic joints
  • Using and maintaining different hand saws
  • Using and maintaining powertools
  • Site skills
  • Frames
  • Studwork
  • Door lining
  • Door hanging
  • Joisting
  • Service encasement

Increasing work experience and skill level.

Complete Level 2 basic theory course

By the end of Level 2, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:

  • CSCS
  • Driving Theory
  • Emergency First Aid
  • Manual handling
  • Working at Heights
  • Health & Safety

Examples of dept skills you can learn;

  • Producing a range of basic joints
  • Using and maintaining different hand saws
  • Using and maintaining powertools
  • Site skills
  • Frames
  • Studwork
  • Door lining
  • Door hanging
  • Joisting
  • Service encasement

 

Trainees who prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.
Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some part of the following:

  • Driving practical
  • Carpentry NVQ

Carpentry Department Social Highlights

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Well done to everyone who received certificates this month. #building #painting #estate #landscaping #metalwork #carpentry #foundationlife ... See MoreSee Less

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Congratulations

Well done everyone 👏

Well done all 👏

#carpentry trainees helping to fit out our new kitchen and doing a great job. Come and train with some of the best #foundationlife ... See MoreSee Less

#carpentry trainees helping to fit out our new kitchen and doing a great job. Come and train with some of the best #foundationlifeImage attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment

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The camelia Botnar foundation delivers excellent employment training skills

The Firepit. No it's not Mallorca, it's Cowfold. I GOT A TEXT.... Can everyone please gather round the firepit. The public have been voting, and.....Darren there is not going to be a re-coupling........you are going home 🤣
Seriously now, the firepit is looking fabulous and the #builders are doing a great job so well done to everyone in the department and Darren. #foundationlife #carpentry #metalwork #estate #building
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The Firepit.   No its not  Mallorca,  its  Cowfold.   I GOT A TEXT.... Can everyone please gather round the firepit.  The public have been voting,  and.....Darren there is not going to be a re-coupling........you are going home   🤣
Seriously now, the firepit is looking fabulous and the #builders are doing a great job so well done to everyone in the department and Darren.  #foundationlife #carpentry #metalwork #estate #building

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Fantastic work with the fire pit and as always camelia Botnar foundation delivers many happy memories of my residential training in my journey towards independence 40 years ago in January March and April 1983 and is always brings me back happy memories

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Well Done You ! Trainee of the Month and a £50 voucher #foundationlife #carpentry ... See MoreSee Less

Well Done You ! Trainee of the Month and a £50 voucher #foundationlife #carpentry

Amazing facelift given to our Pirate Ship in the garden centre. Looks just like a Spanish Galleon now and the kids are loving it! Well done carpenters #carpentry ... See MoreSee Less

Amazing facelift given to our Pirate Ship in the garden centre. Looks just like a Spanish Galleon now and the kids are loving it!  Well done carpenters #carpentryImage attachmentImage attachment

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My great granddaughter loves it ❤️

Carpenters fixing my door today. Good job #carpentry ... See MoreSee Less

Carpenters fixing my door today. Good job #carpentry

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Carpenters at work #carpentry

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