A Shirebrook vicar has praised a group of Year 11 students’ handiwork after they built and installed a brand-new noticeboard outside the church door to keep her parishioners in the know.
The Reverend Karen Bradley, team vicar of Holy Trinity Parish Church, in Main Street, said that the noticeboard, which was made by students at Shirebrook Academy and installed last month, is a “thing of beauty”.
The students took on the task as part of their practical foundation studies, assisted by design technology teachers Simon Dosanjh and Simon Langrick, who guided them through the process, from building the noticeboard out of wood and then sanding and staining it to give it the finished look.
They then visited the church to put it into position.
From left Thomas Bates, design and technology Simon Dosanjh, Nathan Buckingham and Ethan Poole with the new noticeboard they made for Holy Trinity Church in Shirebrook.
The Reverend Bradley said: “We had a notice board installed previously, but it was certainly passed its sell-by-date and a bit of an eye-sore, but the new notice-board is a thing of beauty and hopefully it will be used more than the previous one was.
“I want to thank the students for all of their hard work, it was such a wonderful thing for them to do for us, a real blessing, and it’s brilliant to see the students discovering how the things they learn at school apply to the community.”
Student Thomas Bates, 15, said: “I really enjoyed doing something different for the community and helping people out, but it was also cold installing the notice board and getting it level was a challenge.”
Claire Armstrong, head of design technology at Shirebrook Academy, said: “It was really nice as a department to do something practical and contribute to the community.
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Shirebrook Academy student Nathan Buckingham (left) and Ethan Poole give Holy Trinity Church’s new noticeboard a final wipe-down after he and his classmates made it in their design and technology classes.
“We’re in the midst of really uncertain times, because social distancing rules means we can’t do as much practical work as usual, but this project was able to go ahead and allowed us to give something back to the parish after they generously donated some bibles to the school’s Philosophy and Ethics department.”
