Optional Subjects
Creative Development and Science and Technology within Options at the Beacon College
At the Beacon College, students follow a 3-year rolling programme of Creative Development and Science and Technology learning. At the beginning of each half term or term, students are given the choice of options relating to these non-mandatory elements of the curriculum.
The half termly or termly areas of learning will also be used as a basis for possible enterprise projects to provide an explicit link to work-related skills and enhancing and contributing to the local community.
The focus of these two areas of learning are to provide a wide context to apply skills. These areas of learning recognise the importance of a broad curriculum that promotes self-advocacy through effective communication for choice, developing and maintaining social opportunities, health and wellbeing and ensuring life-long learning and interest.
The learning is planned and assessed discreetly as an isolated area of learning; however, the teachers plan, and the students are taught and supported, to apply their wider skills during the learning and will demonstrate progress in these areas. Students will focus on their Personal Learning Goals and alongside this, build on their wider skills progression in Listening, Speaking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Staying Positive, Aiming High, Leadership and Teamwork as mapped through the Skillsbuilder framework.
Creative Development Overview:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Year A | Textiles | Textiles Christmas Concert | Film Dance | Film Dance | Performance and Production Art | Performance and Production Art |
Year B | Photography Sewing | Photography Sewing Christmas Tree Festival crafts Christmas Concert
| Art Dance Beauty Textiles – crochet Music
| Art Animation Beauty Textiles – crochet Music Drama | Beauty Film Performance Art | Beauty Film Performance Art Photography Languages Dance
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Year C | Cheerleading Concert Dance Art and Crafts Book club | Dance Beauty Christmas Choir Art and Crafts
| Animation Fashion design Music | Animation Fashion design Music | Performance Art – for exhibition Anime | Performance Art – for exhibition Anime
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Science and Technology Overview:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Year A | STEM Enterprise project Gardening Houghton Farm | STEM Enterprise project Gardening Houghton Farm
| Construction Gardening Houghton Farm
| Construction Gardening Houghton Farm
| Construction Gardening Houghton Farm Outdoor Learning
| Construction Gardening Houghton Farm Outdoor Learning
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Year B | Beacon College Bake off Gardening Houghton Farm
| Enterprise – Hereford market Gardening Houghton Farm
| Science Enterprise Gardening Houghton Farm Fitness - circuits
| Science Enterprise Gardening Houghton Farm Fitness – circuits Computer programming
| Gardening Houghton Farm Outdoor Learning Enterprise
| Gardening Houghton Farm Outdoor Learning Enterprise
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Year C | Gardening Houghton Farm Food Technology Computing
| Gardening Houghton Farm Computing
| Gardening Houghton Farm Animal Care Environmental project
| Gardening Houghton Farm Animal Care Environmental project
| Gardening Houghton Farm Outdoor Learning Exploring our local area
| Gardening Houghton Farm Outdoor Learning Exploring our local area
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