Royal Bay Progress for June 2014
Belmont Progress for June 2014
Trades Awareness Skills and Knowledge students, left, Jeff Smith, middle, Will Clearwater, and right, Brennan McEwan, are working on the construction of the Royal Bay Secondary School in Colwood.
Trades training is a critical component of the high school experience. The Sooke School district has put a lot of energy and resources into making the trades programs some of the most efficient and forward thinking programs in the province.
T.A.S.K – Trades Awareness Skills and Knowledge – is an educational partnership between SD62 and Camosun College. The program allows students to explore a variety of trades including: Form Work, Framing, Floor Construction, Roof Construction, Plumbing, Sheet Metal and Electrical. The credits go towards high school graduation and can also be transferred to a trades training certificate.
Recent graduates and students of the T.A.S.K. and Belmont Residential Construction programs are working on the sites of the new Royal Bay and Belmont secondary schools. Seven students in total are busy learning new skills and sharpening old ones at the Royal Bay site. Students are working for Pitt Meadows Plumbing, Glenco Electric, DGS Construction, and Imperial Welding. There are two students working with Yellowridge Construction at the new Belmont site.
Royal Bay is looking to model the trade success Belmont has had by creating shop space and possibly trade academies. Royal Bay has a unique opportunity being located in a new housing development that has yet to be built. The school is currently working on creating partnerships with the developer, which would eventually see students working in apprenticeships with the builders.
All students in the program receive their OFA Level 1, Fall Protection, CSTS, and Hilti certifications while in the program.
Watch CTV’s story
Read the Times Colonist’s article
Read the Gold Stream Gazette’s article
Belmont Secondary
Construction work at the Belmont Secondary site continues to be on time and on budget. The gymnasium floor, which will house the Belmont Bulldogs, has been poured. The second floor of the two-storey building is also prepped and partially poured, and the multi purpose staircase is underway.
Royal Bay Secondary
Construction work at the Royal Bay Secondary site continues to be on time and on budget. The steel framework for the three-storey building is in place and the first flour is poured. Mechanical and electrical work is currently being installed on all floors. The steel roof is being framed over the theatre, which will hold up to 350 students.
Enjoy the construction photos that appear here in the home section. Each construction update is also available under the schools’ tabs. For example, click on Royal Bay’s drop down menu and you will see Royal Bay Construction.
Parents/Guardians of students who are attending or have attended Dunsmuir Middle School or who may be interested in learning more about Royal Bay Secondary are invited to attend an information session. This will be held at Dunsmuir Middle School on Monday, April 7th at 6:30 p.m. in the lunchroom. Following this presentation, there will be an inaugural Parent Advisory Council meeting for any parents who would like to stay and attend. If you have any questions, please email Windy Beadall, Principal of Royal Bay Secondary at wbeadall@sd62.bc.ca
Belmont Secondary is 20% complete. The pouring of the second floor is in process and the exterior walls will be completed in the spring. Over the next two weeks construction crews are going to pour the slabs for the gym and shop areas which are located at the back of the building. As the weather warms up, civil work will continue on the site to define the fields, and all drainage and underground works that go into servicing the property. Belmont Secondary is on time and on budget.
Have you driven by the Royal Bay site recently? If you have you will notice that the steel beams are now in place and the secondary school is taking shape. Royal Bay is on time and on budget with 20% of the school completed. Royal Bay is unique in that the steel structure portion of the school is designed off site and constructed on site. Up next is the pouring of the three concrete floors. Construction crews are going to be working on areas 1 and 2 first, which are the classroom blocks.
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