Fabrication Review

I am in college currently on a full-time basis, with 4 days in the workshop and one day in the classroom environment to be taught the theory side of our apprenticeship.

I have learnt many things I did not previously know, like how to weld, plasma cut and managed to improve my hand skills significantly.

I enjoy it and have made some good friends during the course of my first year. Sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming due to an large amount of work we are given and expected to complete even if there are extenuating circumstances.

Now it is well structured and organised, but it took a while for us to even have a designated teacher for our theory days and I feel like we missed a lot of significant time with a teacher in the first couple months. There is also sometimes a lack of room in the workshop where we find one of the fabricators class is always working on one file in a classroom whilst our class is always in the workshop and it seems it would make sense to change that so both classes can have a more diverse experience.

We do receive support , not only from Babcock but from Vanessa at City College also. It is made clear to us where to go if we have questions and are shown who can help for what scenarios.

We get a lot of support, and they can be quite lenient with us if there are are underlying things that may have prevented progress etc.

It gives us a more in depth feel of what we are going to do practically, so the theory lessons really helps us understand the craft we work in that bit more which makes our jobs easier.

Yes, we receive emails from Babcock regarding extra curricular activities, I am not in any but it is clear what to do if you want to partake in extra curricular activities.

Yes

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