The Green Zone @ Coleg Y Cymoedd

The Green Zone is an enterprise and work experience project run by the staff and students of the Vocational Access department at Coleg Y Cymoedd Ystrad Mynach.

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Best of luck to Jamie and Iolo from our Phase 3 Foundation Construction groups in Ystrad Mynach and Aberdare Campuses, who are competing in the Inclusive Skills Woodworking Competition today at @CAVC Barry Campus. Go on lads! @ColegyCymoedd @ISEinWales

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

Group 1 Foundation Construction skills from Ystrad Mynach showing off their plastering skills! Great work lads! #NewSkills

Sgiliau Adeiladu Sylfaen Grŵp 1 o Ystrad Mynach yn dangos eu sgiliau plastro! Bechgyn gwaith gwych! #SgiliauNewydd

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

E3 Construction learners from Ystrad Mynach continuing work on our wildlife pond and sensory garden at @TheGreenZoneCyC. Funded with help from @TNLUK @GrowWildUK. Almost finished and really starting to look great! Well done boys! @ColegyCymoedd 👷👷🌲🌻🦎

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Nantgarw Construction students digging the ground ready to lay the path. Keep up the good work lads 👍👍

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E3 Construction learners at Ystrad Mynach today taking the Maths lesson out of the classroom today and working on "Perimeter, Area & Volume" in The Green Zone. A great experience giving them real life work skills! @ColegyCymoedd @TheGreenZoneCyC

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

A brilliant team effort by E3 Construction groups from Ystrad and Nantgarw this week! The Green Zone has seen a huge transformation with a soon to be completed wildlife pond, sensory garden and shop, while our E3 Catering group have begun growing their own herbs and spices! 🌶️🌱

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

A huge congrats to Luke & Ryan from E3 Construction at Ystrad Mynach who start their summer jobs as members of the @ColegyCymoedd Site Services team today! You've done yourselves proud lads and your hard work this year has paid off! #E3 #Construction #Skills #FE #Wales 🔧👷🏼‍♂️👷🏼‍♂️🔨

[Behnaz @behnazakhgar]

I want to go back to college and more specifically @ColegyCymoedd. A beautiful building with nicest staff I have ever met. The pupils were super smart and this is the lovely principle. I guess I'll just have to figure what I am going to study 😀👍

[The Green Zone @ Coleg Y Cymoedd @TheGreenZoneCyC]

The talented E3 Construction students at YM campus putting the final touches to the Green Zone shop counter. Fully wheelchair accessible, it will be the centrepiece of our shop offering a realistic work environment for learners across all courses! #ALN #enterprise @ColegyCymoedd

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

Today, E3 Construction groups from @ColegyCymoedd Ystrad Mynach have been building a wheelchair accessible shop counter which will be used in the new @TheGreenZoneCyC shop and help provide a realistic work environment for our E1, 2 & 3 learners. Well done lads! #ALN #construction

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Ystrad Mynach hosting the What’s Next? event today in the Calon area 10-12 with various organisations to offer advice & support. @TheGreenZoneCyC @LlamauUK #walescouncilfordeafpeople @eliteseauk @Engage_2_Change @V21CyfleCymru @RCTCouncil @CareersWales #inspire2work

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

Learners from E3 Foundation Construction in Ystrad Mynach have been hard at work making these beautiful concrete moulded garden ornaments and planters! They'll be on sale at @TheGreenZoneCyC soon! Well done lads! #Construction #Enterprise @ColegyCymoedd

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Some of our beautiful hanging baskets ready for collection at Nantgarw Campus today! @ColegyCymoedd @CYCVocAccess

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A massive congratulations and thanks to Corey, Josh and Calon from our E3 Vocational Access groups at Ystrad Mynach! The brilliant videos they submitted to @GrowWildUK were successful in securing funding for a Sensory Garden and Wild Pond area for The Green Zone! @ColegyCymoedd

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A huge thank you to everyone who placed an order for one of our beautiful hanging baskets! With 70 orders received we have sold out!

Here's a pic of just some of them in the greenhouse yesterday afternoon! Really coming along!

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#enterprise #aln

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

Day 2 of our @OpenDoorsWeek site visits and we're in Bristol University with @ISGplc visiting the Humanities Building renovation. What an amazing project! We really enjoyed our visit and the boys learned a lot! @ColegyCymoedd

[ILS @ Coleg y Cymoedd @CymoeddILS]

In the first of 3 site visits this week, our E3 Construction learners from Ystrad Mynach were shown around The Mill at Canton in Cardiff. A fantastic afternoon! Thanks to everyone at @OpenDoorsWeek & @Lovell_UK 👷🏼‍♂️🔨👷🏻‍♂️ @ColegyCymoedd

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E3 Construction boys from Ystrad Mynach digging the footings for our paths at The Green Zone today. Great job lads! @ColegyCymoedd @CYCVocAccess

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Some more photos of our London adventure @ColegyCymoedd @TheGreenZoneCyC

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Massive thanks to Multiplex Site M&E Manager Dean Adkins for helping us organise an amazing visit to one of London's newest and most exciting development @ Hyde Park. Our E3 Construction Students loved it!! @ColegyCymoedd @TheGreenZoneCyC #London