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Staffordshire Schools’ Combined Events Athletics Competition On Friday, 10th May, learners from Year 9 and 10 competed at the Staffordshire Schools’ Combined Events Athletics competition at Northwood stadium. The learners competed in a pentathlon consisting of long jump, 100m hurdles, javelin, shot putt and 1500m. Our Y10 boys team came first in the competition and were crowned Staffordshire County Champions. …
It’s been another fantastic Comic Relief fundraiser today at The JCB Academy. The total raised today was a magnificent £701.85 Learners and staff at the academy and sixth form raised £530.85 Apprentices and staff over at our higher apprenticeship training centre contributed with a fantastic £171.00
Are you fundraising for Comic Relief 2019? The JCB Academy will be doing various fundraising activities. Learners and staff can wear their own ‘red themed’ clothes, we are having a bake sale and competitions including guess the staff member from a selection of childhood photos.
It’s World Book Day and our staff are participating along with our learners.
A few very interesting days! From working in the automotive workshop at St Patrick’s technical college, trying some welding and putting cars on hoists. To sitting in the Holdon Monaro at MTA, which we will see racing at the Calipso tomorrow. We are getting truly spoiled by St Patrick’s.
Today we visited the JCB Indian Headquarters at Ballabgarh where we were welcomed in the traditional Indian way with a flower garland and bindi. We were treated to a presentation about JCB India and then went on a tour of the plant touring the backhoe assembly line, power train line and the engine line. It was fascinating to see the …
Another great day in Pune this time looking around the fabrications plant and then heavy products. We saw all of the different types of manufacturing methods that are used to make these fantastic machines. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take any photos within the facilities so I managed to get another group photo with the JCB representatives who had …
After an early start we took a domestic flight from New Delhi to Pune and headed for the JCB Engineering Design Centre which is located on the outskirts of Pune. After lunch in the JCB cafeteria with a beautiful vista we were the introduced to the Engineering staff from the facility. We had talks from the following teams: Industrial Design …
So after landing in Delhi around lunchtime we went to the ITC Sheraton Hotel where we were staying for the night. We freshened up, had our lunch then it was out to see the sights and sounds of New Delhi. We went to the home of the President where we were privileged to be invited to watch the changing of …
A school with a difference! We’ve been enjoying a couple of days shadowing the students at St Patrick’s technical college. The wonderful catering and hospitality department let us join in with a tour of the local food market, treating us to cheese and meat tasting and teaching us about the local seasonal foods. The fresh juice bar was a big …
