We have recently been given centre approval by AAT (Awarding body for Accountancy courses) to run our own testing from the CSCS Testing Centre. We are the only private company in the Gloucestershire area to do this.
James Newman was a pupil at Maidenhill School in Stonehouse, who took part in our Employability Skills Programme. James showed an interest in construction from the very beginning, he had a succesful extended work experience placement with JR Bennett & Sons for 6 months for which he had both excellent attendance and reports.
James then progressed onto the Prospect Training Building Skills course. James was very keen from the start and got stuck into the building tasters that we offer to all new students. James decided on the plastering route and worked with our plastering tutor Malcolm White. James progressed well with this and was chosen to help Malcolm work at Belmont School, where he helped Malcolm to set up a basic building skills project for pupils with learning difficulties. James worked extra hours in order to do this and received praise from the staff and pupils.
In January of this year James was chosen to do a work placement with Yorke Construction as a general labourer. James worked hard and we received good feedback, at the end of the placement James was offered a full time job as a labourer. James is now earning a full time wage and his new employers have helped him finance the puchase of a moped, so he now has independance..
On the 5th June 2009 BTCV held an award ceremony to celebrate their 50th Anniversary, for this we had to nominate learners, employers and staff who we felt should achieve recognition.
There were four categories for these awards:
Staff Achievement - Graham Dunn who is our Pre Placement Tutor was nominated and he came runner up.
Employer Category - John Middleton from The Mind Shop in Gloucester, for his help with work experience placements, he also came runner up
Best Learner Achievement - Robert Agg was nominated, he came on with PTS on the W/Exp programme, was placed in a work experience position and from this has secured full time employment in a management role, he collected first prize.
Chey Thornton has become the first learner from Building Skills Academy to pass the complete Ascentis Level 1 Certificate inPreparation for Employment in the Construction Industries qualification. Well done Chey!
Prospect Training is proud to announce that we will be delivering Work Experience Health & Safety Vettings for all block work placements, on behalf of all Gloucestershire Secondary Schools.
Prospect Training has won a large ESF contract to cover the SW region. We will be engaging employers and apprenticeship providers to support apprentices who are at threat of or have been made redundant to complete their apprenticeship frameworks.
