Year 12 Construction - Brick & Block Training

As part of the VET Construction course students are required to complete various competencies showing skills related to the construction industry. One of the competencies they undertake is learning to lay bricks and besser blocks. 

Students attended a two day course at Cathwest Innovation College - Penola where they were shown the skills and techniques used to lay bricks. We received a few ‘tradie tips and tricks’ and then got to work. Students were required to demonstrate the skills they were shown by building a brick wall, piers for a house as well as lay a blockwork retaining wall. They also learnt to cut bricks and mix mortar to the correct consistency.

Students were all able to successfully complete the course and should be congratulated on the hard work they put in. It was very physical work, students needed to move a large quantity of bricks, besser blocks, mix mortar and build the structures. After two days of early starts and hard work it was a very quiet bus trip home.