Student earns coveted spot on programme
New College Doncaster Film and TV student Mary Manyika has been chosen to take part in the prestigious documentary filmmaking residential programme with the BFI Film Academy. This is an amazing achievement as there are only 40
places available from hundreds of applications. Mary will be part of a residential programme in London across February half-term and work in a production team with other participants from around the country to produce a documentary to be screened at a London cinema. She will be given masterclasses from five-time BAFTA winning producer Adam Tyler and director Tom Costello, as well as BAFTA nominees Marta Shaw (Ross Kemp’s Extreme World), Andrew Hulme (The Imposter) and producer Clare Johns (BBC’s Panorama). Mary said: “It’s an amazing opportunity for me to be able
to work alongside the BFI. The residential will give me the chance to meet BAFTA winning producers and directors to help me further develop my passion of film and TV, in particular documentary film-making. This is something that I never thought I’d be able to do, so thanks to New College Doncaster for giving me the opportunity to apply and also to my peers encouraging me to go for it – I’m so glad I did!” Lee Trueman, Head of Visual Arts, Film and Media at New
College Doncaster, echoed Mary’s comments. He said: “It’s a really great opportunity for one of our Film and TV Production students to be invited onto the BFI’s residential programme. We’re establishing links to the industry all the time at New College Doncaster, and this just shows how much external organisations value the quality of our students.” The BFI Film Academy provides opportunities for talented
and committed young people between the ages of 16–19 to develop new skills and build a career in the film industry, no matter where they live or what their background.
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ncdoncaster.ac.uk Mary Manyika with Brendon Fletcher, Principal at New College Doncaster Apprentice cements his place in competition
Former Barnsley College apprentice, Adam Batty, is celebrating after winning gold in bricklaying at the 2019 SkillBuild National Final. Adam, 19, from Darfield, battled
it out with other talented apprentices to be crowned as one of the country’s most talented trainees.
SkillBuild is the largest multi-
trade competition in the UK for construction trainees and apprentices and forms a part of WorldSkills UK. The competition took place at
the NEC in Birmingham, where competitors were given a challenging design to build over the three-day competition. Adam used his bricklaying knowledge to interpret the drawings to set out and build his design using different
styles and intricate techniques of brickwork. He won the competition on the accuracy, neatness and overall finish of his final build. The final was made up of the
eight highest scoring brickwork trainees from the regional qualifier competitions that took place throughout the UK last year. Adam said: “I found the
competition very challenging yet rewarding. It tested my skill and speed to the limit, but it was three of the best days ever. “I’ve made friends and memories
for life doing the competition. It was just an added bonus that I won out of the best eight in the country.” Michael Lindsay, Adam’s tutor at
Barnsley College, added: “The hard work and effort Adam put into practice prior to and throughout
the competition is a credit to him. WorldSkills UK attracts a large number of visitors from the construction industry so it was a great way for Adam to showcase his superb brickwork skills and techniques to construct three
brickwork models to a very high standard. Well done Adam!”
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www.barnsley.ac.uk/ construction Email:
info@barnsley.ac.uk Call: 01226 216 123
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