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Foundation Apprenticeship: Construction

(SCQF level 4)

Construction Crafts, Nautical and STEM

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Mode of Study

Part-time

Start Date

8th Jan 2025, 48 weeks

Day(s):

Wednesday

Time:

9:30 - 16:00

Location

City Campus

Overview

Please Note: This is a school college partnership course.  We can only accept online applications from Secondary School pupils in their Senior Phase.

Are you considering leaving school in Summer 2025?

Join our Summer Leavers Foundation Apprenticeship in Construction.

The apprenticeship combines classroom sessions, hands-on experiences, and employability-focused training.

This course will help you learn more about the industry, explore the job opportunities available, and understand how to navigate a construction environment safely.

Learning with like-minded students, you will use our state-of-the-art workshop facilities to develop your technical and practical abilities in trades such as carpentry and decorative painting.

Within our supportive learning environment, you build upon skills in confidence, communication, and problem-solving – all qualities needed to have a successful career in construction. 

Collaborating with industry leaders, you will visit job sites, work on real projects, and acquire valuable employability skills for the future.

Attendance Pattern

  • Wednesday 9.30am – 4pm.

Entry requirements

Minimum entry requirements

  • Applicants should want to learn more about the construction industry and be considering a career in the sector. 
  • You must have achieved or are working towards National 4 Literacy and Numeracy.

What you study

  • Understanding Industry.
  • Personal Development: Self and Work.  
  • Construction Crafts: Site Carpentry and Bench Joinery.
  • Construction Crafts: Employability Skills.  
  • Construction Crafts: Decorative Painting.  
  • Construction Theory.  
  • Construction Practical.  
  • Work-based Skills Challenge.

After the course

Careers

This course will provide a sound understanding of the career paths, entry requirements and working conditions featured within the construction industry.  With further specialised training, you can pursue careers in bricklaying, painting and decorating, plastering and carpentry and joinery. 

Continuing Study

Upon completion of this course, you could:  

  • Progress on to a specific trade programme at college.
  • Earn as you learn with a Modern Apprenticeship.
  • Continue your study with us and complete a Level 5 Foundation Apprenticeship in Construction.

Explore the Course Progression Pathway.

Teaching

How the course is taught

This is a practical course with many of your classes in our workshop on-site or externally with an employer. There are some theory-based units, which are delivered in an interactive classroom setting.

For the practical side of the course, you will be issued with steel-toed safety boots and work coveralls. Safety boots should always be worn during practical activities however, workwear must not be worn outside the construction hall or workwear café. 

  • Mode of Study:
    Part-time
  • Start Date:
    8th Jan 2025, 48 weeks
  • Day(s):
    Wednesday
    Time:
    9:30 - 16:00
  • Location:
    City Campus