Carpentry & Joinery - Pre-Apprenticeship: NQ (Level 5)

What you will learn

• In addition to a range of Carpentry & Joinery units, you will undertake activities on
• Health & Safety, Construction Drawing, Numeracy and ICT.
• Carpentry and Joinery: An Introduction
• Develop Bench Joinery Skills
• Manufacture Joinery Components
• Carpentry and Joinery Repair and Maintenance
• Construction Occupation Practices
• Health and Safety in a Construction Environment
• ICT
• Additional units in
• Develop Constructional Carpentry Skills
• Develop Site Joinery Skills

Entry requirements

The course has no formal entry requirements, but applicants should have a genuine interest in carpentry & joinery and be aiming to gain a craft apprenticeship on course completion.

For this course, if English is not your first language

• you need to have SQA ESOL National 5 (or equivalent)

• If you do not have a formal ESOL qualification but your language skills meet this level, you should apply for your course and then contact our Admissions team to organise an internal language assessment  here at the College.

The course will be delivered via blended learning using classroom and online activities along with practical workshop activities.

Future prospects

While the pre-apprenticeship course is in carpentry & joinery there are many transferable skills and attitudes gained throughout the progress of the course which may lead to employment in other areas within the construction sector.