By Angela Brown

Living Sky School Division launches mobile welding trailer

Nov 7, 2017 | 7:00 AM

It was an exciting day at Maymont Central School Friday when Living Sky School Division launched its new mobile welding trailer.

“We were celebrating because we were the first school to have the trailer in the division,” said principal Bridgette Millen. “It provides a hands-on learning opportunity for our students, and it helps students to promote their academic achievements that aren’t classroom-based.”

The heated welding trailer includes various work stations with different types of welding equipment available for students to use.

The trailer arrived at Maymont school in September, and will stay until the end of November.

It will also travel to Cando and Hafford schools during the school year. Each year students from all three schools will have a chance to learn welding. 

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“It’s a great opportunity for our students, so it can happen right here in our local community,” said Millen. “It’s really awesome… This is a great hands-on piece that we can always provide. This has been a great solution.” 

Students who were studying welding at Maymont before the trailer was available had to travel to St. Vital school in Battleford to take their classes because Maymont school didn’t have its own welding workshop in the school. So the new welding trailer will mean students won’t have to leave school to learn the skill.

“Now they don’t have to be transported by bus; it is just right here for them,” Millen said.

Before the welding trailer was available, Maymont students only in Grades 10 through 12 were able to take the welding program, now Grades 7 through 9 can also participate since it’s easier to access. 

Living Sky School Division board chair Ronna Pethick said the project had been in the planning stages for about two years so she was delighted to see the welding trailer launch.

The cost to Living Sky for the trailer and electrical services for the three schools was $118,000.

Pethick said the welding trailer would “open up opportunities in the practical and applied arts” many students at Maymont, Hafford and Cando didn’t have access to previously.

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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