and this December, we’re adding a sprinkle of holiday magic by introducing Abingdon & Witney College’s Advent Calendar 2024 🎅.
Course code: XMBS350P
Subject area: Carpentry & Joinery
Study level: Apprenticeship
Course level: 2
Course time:
Days of week:
Various
Course date:
1st Aug 2024 - 31st Jul 2025
Course location:
Bicester Construction Skills CentreDuration:
• 20 months practical training period, plus 3 months for End Point Assessment
Delivery model:
• Work-based training with your employer
• Day release during term time (approximately 1 day per week for 20 months)
• Approximately 5 on-site visits per year
• Level 1 Functional Skills in Maths and English (7 days at college for each, if required)
• Off the job training will count for at least 6 hours a week of an apprentice’s time at work
Qualifications included:
• Level 1 Functional Skills in English and Maths
• Level 2 Carpentry & Joinery Apprenticeship (Architectural Joiner)
End Point Assessment:
• Multiple choice knowledge test
• Practical test
• Professional discussion based on a portfolio of evidence
• Health & safety
• Building terminology: foundations, roofs, walls, floors, utilities and services
• Interpret/ produce information from drawings/ specifications
• Estimate resource quantities
• Communicating/ working well with others
• Characteristics, quality, uses, sustainability, limitations and defects of timber/ timber-based products
• Prepare, use, maintain hand/ power tools
• Different types of fixings/ fasteners
• Fixings/ fasteners, moisture content parameters; characteristics, uses/ limitations of preservatives and finishes; requirements of fire door assemblies
• Using machinery
• Methods of connection: joints, nails, screws, biscuit, staples and adhesives
• Set/ mark out, prepare, produce doors, door frames and linings, windows, fittings and straight stairs; install ironmongery
What skills will apprentices gain?
• Identify/ apply safe working practices
• Plan/ undertake work productively
• Identify/ apply safe use, storage and maintenance of hand/ power tools and equipment
• Correctly interpret information from drawings/ specifications
• Estimate resource quantities
• Measuring, marking out, fitting, cutting, splicing, mitring, scribing, horizontal and vertical levelling, finishing, positioning and securing
• Inspect, prepare and operate machinery: narrow bandsaw, crosscut saw, re-saw, surface planer, thicknesser, morticer
• Use hand tools to produce connection points: joints, nails, screws, dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives
• Set/ mark out, and manufacture doors, door frames/ linings, windows with opening lights, straight stairs and fitting parts; install ironmongery
What behaviours will apprentices develop?
• Effective communication
• Effective team/ independent working
• Logical thinking
• Level 1 Functional Skills in English and Maths
• Level 2 Carpentry & Joinery Apprenticeship (Architectural Joiner)