Friday 21st March 2025
9.30 am – 4.30pm
£80 per person (No bursary options for advanced certificate)
The advanced assessment is a one-day practical assessment event for those who have completed the Intermediate certificate previously.
This assessment is similar to the last day of the intermediate course, but a bit more challenging. You will be tasked with building a dressed granite style Cornish hedge in situ to be assessed at the end of the allotted time. Find out more here: https://www.lantra.co.uk/product/35829
Please note: To enter the advanced assessment, you need to log 40 days of Cornish hedging since the completion of your intermediate certificate.
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Logging your days
For most of you, you will be logging days since completing your intermediate training. For a few of you, you can start counting your hedging days since you completed 10-days of other training with us (e.g. some of you did 2 foundation courses initially).
You can use the Cornish hedging log template to keep track:
Word Document: Click here to download the hedging log template.
PDF Document: Click here to download the hedging log template.
We will need to see the log and photos of your work as evidence before you enter for the advanced assessment.
We can accept days of:
- Professional hedging jobs
- Practice days with CREST
- Work experience
- Voluntary hedging
- Enhanced Skills training (stile building etc.)
- Personal projects – like your hedge at home.
- Ideally, the 40 days will include a couple of different jobs for variety.
We cannot accept:
- Days from additional Foundation or intermediate training courses you’ve done.
- Skills consolidation days
- Any other types of stone work, like carving or other boundary types.
Photo evidence and inspection
For each job that you log, progress shots are important. It doesn’t have to be one for every day of work, but at least one photo of the build stage and one of the ‘finished’ hedge is required.
Andrew Cockshaw will be looking at these and assessing them to make sure they meet quality criteria. If he needs to, he may even visit your hedge. This is something he does voluntarily and entirely to help you if you’re picking up habits that may affect your ability to pass the advanced certificate or impact your professional work.
When to send your log and photos?
Please send them to us when you’ve completed around 20 days, this will give us time to keep up with checking them before assessments.
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