Train to Gain: November 2011 Archives

Its that time of the year again and TDR need all current TDR Apprentices and TDR Adult Funded Learners to complete the relevant on-line survey.

To acces the survey you need to click the following link but you will also require 2  x Access codes to gain entry.

Code 1 - TDR Company Number 10006517

Code 2 - Your Own personal number - (Please call your co-ordinator to acquire your code)

The online survey once accessed, should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete.

Link to the Survey = On Line Survey

Your input is appreciated and TDR use the information to assess our current performance.

Thank You All.

TDR Training Ltd

Stephanie Oswald has won the EEF North East Apprentice of the Year for Outstanding Final Year Apprentice.  Stephanie started her engineering experience with TDR Training as a Student Engineering Apprenticeship at Emmanuel College.  She completed her Btec National Certificate there and achieved a Double Distinction for her efforts.  She also completed a Performing Engineering Operations NVQ Level 2 at South Tyneside College prior to starting work as an apprentice at BAE Land Systems in Newcastle where she currently works as a design engineer in the hydraulics team. 

            During her time as an apprentice to date she has completed a Btec Higher National Certificate in which in the second year she picked up Distinctions throughout again.  Stephanie has also completed an NVQ Level 3 in Engineering Technical Support for both Project Management and Engineering Design and has shown that she could run a number of projects by her own, working with suppliers, scheduling workloads for the factory, designing and modifying new parts for the vehicles and organising work layouts.

Other achievement's Stephanie has received during her apprenticeship was to win a Bronze Chairman's award for 'Transferring Best Practice'.  This was awarded for work on the annual Apprentice Charity Challenge in 2009. At this time no other Apprentice team had ever won a Chairman's award.  Also in 2009 Stephanie won the Newcastle annual apprentice of the year award.

Finally Stephanie is currently studying a BSc honor's degree in Management of Engineering Technologies and has also been an ambassador for BAE Systems by giving presentations to primary schools to encourage learners to look to engineering as a career.  Overall Stephanie has worked very hard to achieve her goals and will hopefully do well in the National EEF awards in December 2011.

TDR Training wish her well................

TDR Training has been involved in the delivery of the Advanced Apprenticeship program with BAE Land Systems since 2006.  At the end of every college year BAE Land Systems judge their apprentices on their ability within college and on the job performance and award their apprentices with an award for best Apprentice in their first year of training and best Apprentice in their last year of training.  This has been held every year at Gateshead's Marriott hotel and has been very successful.  All achievements  are identified for every apprentice and presented to them at the awards ceremony.  

                All apprentices have completed or will complete an NVQ Level 3 in their relative field and have the opportunity to complete a Btec Higher National Certificate at South Tyneside College.  The start of the Apprenticeship with BAE Land Systems was helped though TDR's delivery of the Student Engineering Program.  This is a program linked with schools to deliver the Btec National Certificate whilst in the sixth form and also deliver an NVQ Level 2 Performing Operations Engineering qualification also.  During the Apprentices time at BAE Land Systems they have gained practical engineering skills that will help them progress through their career as engineers or trades person's to help build the future of engineering.  Some have progressed onto Degree level and all will strive to build on their skills they have achieved through their Apprenticeship.

The names of apprentices left to right are: -

Paul Scott, Jack Hill, Scott Hutchinson, Andrew Watts, Joshua Potter, Aaron Blakey, Chris Fail

Rhys Quinn-McClaughlin, Chris Beckwith (ex apprentice now apprentice co-ordinator),

Marc Shepherd