This week, as in all years, the school celebrated the work of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. It was a traditional affair with a reading of the Address to a Haggis, the first verse of which goes like this: Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak …
It’s always nice to be able to celebrate a former student’s success, and doubly so when they come in to talk to our professional course students about what has helped shape their success. So this week we were delighted to welcome Mike Whittall from Turiff in Aberdeenshire, who won our Best Portfolio Award 2016. Mike, …
It’s week 13 of our 2018/19 professional course, and we’re now only two weeks away from the halfway point. As always, it’s been a pleasure to see how much the students are learning and the hard work and passion they’re all putting into their work. This week we’re concentrating on giving them an introduction to …
Jack and Jill did go up many hills, but to fetch timber not water. Because this week we’d like to celebrate the largely forgotten heroines of the Women’s Timber Corps (WTC). What brought this to mind is that, on our last introductory course, we had an equal split between men and women – for the …
It’s always nice when newspapers or magazines come to visit, and this week we had Clare Trodden from Living magazine. It’s a wonderful lifestyle title from here in Scotland with a circulation of over 100,000, and we’re looking forward to the published article. While we do, of course, want to promote the school here and …
This week is week twelve of the 2018/19 professional course, and we’re already nearing the half-way mark. This week, the focus is on hinges and metal ageing, although students are also learning about, for example, gluing with a UV pen, domino accessories, hand-cut knuckle joints, and sanding mouldings. As always, it’s a busy week, particularly …
