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Curriculum Activities, Site Visits & Career Talks

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Work Experience

Site Visits are a great way for groups of young people to see the actual working face of a construction project.

At GRAHAM, we encourage education to come along and gain an insight into the project, typically, the group will meet with members of the project team and learn about their role and their journeys into construction.

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They will then be given a guided tour of the project and usually this is followed by a Q & A Session. Aberdeen Grammar visited the site in December 2021, and Aberdeen University visited the site in January 2022 with some of their Civil Engineering students, Bucksburn Academy are scheduled for a site visit in February 2023, with more visits planned for local schools in the coming months.

Career Talks

During the past year the GRAHAM team have risen to the challenge of the pandemic and managed to provide 2 online career talks, 1 with 12 students studying Foundation Apprenticeships (Civil Engineering) and another to the wider community in partnership with DWP to unemployed people within the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire areas.

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