Potential Partner Schools Meeting (6th Feb)

Yesterday members of staff from different schools visited NEW Academy to visit our Academy Aircraft Factory and find out about how they could get involved with the project. The partner schools interested are; 

South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy

Brine Lees Academy

Burton Borough School

Willenhall E-Act Academy

Kingswinford School

George Salter

Windsor High School

Wood Green Academy

Wolverhampton City College


Keep a look out to see how they're going to get involved very soon!

1st Skills Training Day (6th February)

Yesterday 11 of our build students went to Michael Beetham Conservation Centre, at RAF Cosford, to learn about the basic skills needed to build a plane. This was the first full day sessions in which the students were taught basic skills by the centre apprentices.





They got the chance to get hands on by marking out and dimpling a square of aluminium.



















They drilled holes in to it, countersunk the holes and added in rivets.

They were also shown how to mark and drill through tubing. Lastly they were taught how to bend metal and join parts together using pop rivets.














The students extremely enjoyed the day and the MBCC staff were very impressed with their behaviour.