Each month we’re sharing stories that highlight our young people’s accomplishments. Everyone is at a different stage of their own journey and these stories will reflect that. This month we’re giving a Shout Out to three young people who are ‘building’ bright futures. We see the hard work they do and we think it’s time that you do to!
Our first Shout Out is for Colin* and Scott*, who are wowing with their skills. Colin* & Scott* from Whitehill Secondary are proving that Glasgow’s secondaries are overflowing with talent! The two won awards at the Education Festival Ceremony at the Trades Hall earlier this month.
The Glasgow School Craft Awards celebrated 40 young people who excelled in categories ranging from woodwork and metalworking to design and cookery from across the city’s secondary schools. Colin won first prize in Nat 5 Woodwork for his stunning shelves, and Scott won a Culinary Excellence award. It was a fab and swanky ceremony and senior representatives of Glasgow City Council and the Trades House attended. Their proud Pathways Coordinator Sharon accompanied them to the ceremony.
Congrats Colin & Scott!In our second Shout Out we’re celebrating Declan who has started a fab apprenticeship!Declan from Lochend Community High School left school this year and joined a construction employability course at Tigers. Declan’s mentor Ross, who works for McTaggart Construction in partnership with Tigers, secured him a work placement. The director of McTaggarts agreed to offer him an apprenticeship with their Groundwork division or Scaffolding if the placement went well. Declan’s placement went fabulously and he was offered a position in the Civils Division team!
Congrats to Declan on all your hard work!
#GiveAnHour
Thanks to all the amazing work of our mentors and young people. We’re working with more than 1300 young people each week, but there are still another 750 pupils in Glasgow alone that are waiting for their very own mentor. Mentors build a trusting, caring relationship with their young person, which is the prerequisite for young people to find and accomplish their dreams. Can you become a mentor and work with one of our fab young people? When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
*Names have been changed for privacy
