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June 2010
Bird Box Clever
Two Stourbridge College lecturers have been helping local students to build and paint bird boxes with a difference – and it’s not hard to see why they’ve been so popular!
Blakebrook School students show off the camouflaged bird boxes they made.
Kim Fellows, Painting & Decorating Lecturer and Richard Smith, Carpentry Lecturer based at the Advanced Technology Centre in Brierley Hill, have been working with eight special needs students from Blakebrook School in Kidderminster to provide evidence towards their ASDAN qualification.
Kim said: “We have been helping the students to make bird boxes with a difference by decorating them with camouflage paint so that they blend in with foliage when they are in the gardens. They are proving to be very popular with staff and students wanting to buy them!”
The bird boxes will be sold at the school summer fare to make money for a new interactive game for their electronic console.
Blakebrook School, which is a specialist communication and interaction establishment, teaches pupils aged between 3 and 19 who have a wide range of learning difficulties and communication problems.
A spokesman from Blakebrook School, said: “This has been a great project for our students to work on and a really innovative idea to camouflage the bird boxes. Stourbridge College lecturers Kim and Richard are an inspiration creatively and we hope to make enough money for our interactive game.”
Our success rates have increased steadily over the past four years and we are currently in the top 25% of colleges nationally. 
