{"id":416667,"date":"2025-09-11T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416667\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:28:14","slug":"team-uk-comes-together-during-day-2-of-euroskills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416667\/","title":{"rendered":"Team UK comes together during day 2 of EuroSkills"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team UK reached the midpoint of the EuroSkills competition with a sigh of relief today.<\/p>\n

Some competitors had to undergo hours-long tasks involving stress and time management while others found themselves up against some experienced peers who were involved at WorldSkills Lyon last year.<\/p>\n

Going into the final day, Team UK members told FE Week they were pushing through some tiredness to make it to the end but with a dash of positivity.<\/p>\n

Grace Longden, 18-year-old health and social care competitor has luckily come to Herning already riding the high of a win.<\/p>\n

Longden, who is a triathlete representing Great Britain in the 16-19 age group, won gold in the Asia and Europe triathlon in Istanbul two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough race,\u201d she said, adding that the swim in the Bosphorus River was \u201cone of the best swims\u201d she\u2019d ever had.<\/p>\n

Coming to Denmark for EuroSkills, the Macclesfield College alumnus said there is \u201calways\u201d the hope of a medal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re competing against the best in Europe. Everyone is so well trained, so competent,\u201d Longden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing on the younger age [bracket] of my skill, I have got some tough competition,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\"\"Health and social care competitor Grace Longden<\/p>\n

Longden is up against Croatia\u2019s Dino Brki\u0107 and Germany\u2019s Anna Telle, both of whom won a Medallion for Excellence at WorldSkills Lyon last year, showing they met the international benchmark.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Longden has acclimatised to the spectacle of the competition after day 1<\/a> and said her second day of tasks went swimmingly.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cGoing into the day one, I did feel quite nervous, because there were quite a few crowds about and we had to be microphoned up as well. Going out on stage was quite daunting the first time, but it got easier and easier throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second day, I came into a bit more confident. [\u2026] I was happier than I was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Longden had to treat a breast cancer patient coming to terms with a diagnosis and teach a stroke patient how to use a walking frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m starting university next week in physiotherapy, so that was one of my strengths,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Longden will be attending Keele University next week after receiving a distinction grade in her T Levels.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Katie Sime, 20-year-old hairdressing competitor with Reds Hair Company, had to undergo a five-hour task of working on both a men\u2019s and women\u2019s cut and colour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of time management, working out what you\u2019re going to do first and then, because obviously, once you\u2019ve then got one colour on, you have to stop what you\u2019re doing to take that off. So it\u2019s a lot to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s long and quite stressful, but, yeah, I was happy in the end,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Katie Sime hairdressing competitor<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Sime and her peers are facing live models, which she is a tad nervous about.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what their hair is going to be like until they arrive so that adds a bit of extra stress onto it but hopefully it\u2019ll all be good, and I\u2019ll be happy,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Sime also had some advice from last year\u2019s Medallion for Excellence winner Charlotte Lloyd to \u201chave a good time and come away with good memories\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sime has already come away with a shot of confidence since the new experiences of competing on an international stage, but it has also made her closer to her teammates in Team UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think at the boot camps, although you spend a lot of time together, it\u2019s only for like, a couple of days, and people just come and go, I think. But I think this week has been really nice, and everyone seems to be getting along really well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More from this theme Recent articles Team UK reached the midpoint of the EuroSkills competition with a sigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764,141780,142861],"class_list":{"0":"post-416667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales","19":"tag-worldskills","20":"tag-worldskills-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115187555877844476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}