Student's bronze award for brick work skills

A WARRINGTON teenager has won a medal in the UK Skill Build finals after impressing the judges with his brick work skills and now may go forward to represent his country in an international competition in Germany.
Warrington Collegiate student Ashley Terron won Bronze in the recent competition and received £200 and a set of tools.
He is now waiting to hear if he will be selected for Team GB at the WorldSkills Championships in Leipzig in 2013.
As a junior Ashley, 19, from Appleton, won the SkillBuild (Northwest) in 2010. He built on that success and this year won the senior competition with one of the highest scores in the country.
The competition awards students for their brickwork skills and is organised by Construction Skills and endorsed by UK Skills.
Ashley said: “I’m absolutely over the moon. It was tough completing a neat construction with so much of the bricklaying in challenging and awkward positions, but I’m proud that I was able to complete the job to a professional standard.
“I know the tests will be even more difficult if I make it to the world final but I’d love this experience to continue.”
Curriculum manager Paul Gould said: “Ashley is a talented student and I’m sure he will go far. He has a great future ahead of him. These types of competitions, not only raise the profile of the construction industry but they also demonstrate the high level of skills training which is undertaken here at Warrington Collegiate.
“Ashley has great career prospects ahead of him, in a very diverse construction industry.”
Ashley works for Peter Terron Brickwork Contracting Limited. After completing his studies at the collegiate he is now studying at the University of Salford for an HNC in Construction and Property Management.