Hairdressing students at Coleg Sir Gâr are accomplishing outstanding competition success.
Work-based learning apprentice, Phoebe McLavy, who works for Morgan Edward hairdressers in Carmarthen, has been selected to train and compete as part of WorldSkills Squad UK, which is a team of judiciously selected UK competitors aiming to compete for a place in the globe’s biggest biennial skills competition, WorldSkills, which takes place in Russia in 2019.
Jasmine Harries won a bronze medal in this year’s WorldSkills UK Live national competition at the NEC in Birmingham. Working as a barber in her hometown, Jasmine applied to Coleg Sir Gâr to complete her level three qualification. She has been working with her tutor Adrienne Chick, gaining additional skills to help her competition journey. Jasmine successfully gained third place at a Skills Competition Wales event in Cardiff and as a result, was named as one of the top eight competitors in the UK, which gained her a place at the Birmingham competition.
Shannon Jones-Rees began her hairdressing journey when she took part in a college link with Glan y Mor Comprehensive School and then applied to study full-time.
In her first ever Skills Competition Wales competition, she won third place and will now progress to a Welsh final at the end of the year at Coleg y Cymoedd.
Karrie Eynon, a level three hairdressing student has also been successful in gaining a place in the final due to her high score of above 70% at a regional competition.
Coleg Sir Gâr curriculum head, Claire MacKerras said: “The college is a regular participant of skills competitions both regionally, nationally and internationally.
“I’m delighted to see so many of our hairdressing students showcasing their talents and rising through the competition stages to as far as UK level, I wish them every success.”