Ayrshire College students working on important Belleisle Park project
Carpentry & Joinery students at Ayrshire College have built a new structure that will provide additional shelter to animals at Ayr’s Belleisle Park.
An existing structure within the enclosure – where Herdwick sheep and fallow deer roam - suffered badly from storm damage and needed to be replaced. A team from Ayrshire College met with South Ayrshire Council staff in September to discuss the restoration project.
Since that meeting, a class of pre-apprentice carpentry and joinery students have been hard at work designing, drawing to scale, calculating material quantities, ordering materials, and making the frames for the structure.
Visitors to Belleisle Park will have seen students working on the base and erection of the frame in recent weeks, with the overall project due to be completed by 16 December 2022.
Cameron Bell, Head of Learning and Skills for Construction Technology, Trades, Land and Renewable Energy at Ayrshire College, said: “We are very grateful to South Ayrshire Council for allowing us to undertake this project, which provides a very valuable learning experience for our pre-apprenticeship students.
“Students have also learned about the social and environmental aspects of the project and all about the animal breeds in their Essential Skills classes."
Read the thoughts of Cameron Bell, Ayrshire College’s Head of Construction Technology and Trades, here as he writes about the successful partnership between Ayrshire College, South Ayrshire Council and Morrison Construction after five enjoyable years of college delivery at Belleisle Park: Ayrshire College in Belleisle Park.
12 December 2022
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