Beamont Collegiate Academy Year 7 Residential 2015 in North Yorkshire.

Year 7 students have been taking part in lots of activities (whatever the weather) on their residential. Students were accommodated in a bunk barn close to Malham in North Yorkshire and their activities included, caving, rock climbing, hiking and problem solving in teams.

All tasks required students to listen carefully to instructions, to consider their safety, to work closely together and to have respect for the ideas and contributions of others.

All students took part in the activities with the full encouragement of their peers and everybody enjoyed trying out new experiences.  Students really enjoyed spending free time with other students from their form group and everybody helped out with the chores at mealtimes.

In the evening students took part in a quizzes, night orienteering and team games before having supper and heading to bed for a well-earned sleep in their dormitories.

We will be running a full flight school at our next Coder Dojo on November 7^th 10-12.30.

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Two of Beamont Collegiate Academy best computer coders travelled to Brussels this week to teach coding to MEPs in the EU Parliament building.

The two whizz kids, Luke Corbishley and James Spiers, both study Computer Science at school and volunteer at weekends to help younger students at the schools Coder Dojo.

Coder Dojo is a club to help kids 7-17 learn to write code, design games, engineer robotics, Minecraft and even fly drones to film local projects. Beamonts Coder Dojo is leading the way in Warrington for new Tech, STEM and cutting edge computer coding.

Director of STEM at BCA, Chris Hillidge said ‘ We have hundreds of young computer geniuses working with professional games designers and graduates to build and fight robots, fly drones, compete at coding and get their hands on loads of new tech at the school. Luke and James were selected from the best in the country because of their commitment and skills in teaching code – will they be the next Mark Zuckerbergs?’

BCA recognised for its outstanding STEM opportunities

Our amazing school was formally recognised for the fantastic opportunities we give our students to experience STEM careers and guidance.

Mersey Stem – Sponsored by Engineering UK – stated that  ‘Beamont Collegiate Academy has the North Wests best opportunities for pupils who want to follow a career in Science, Technology Engineering or Maths (STEM).’

And that

That BCA STEM goes ‘above and beyond’ with regard to STEM provision.

Mr Hillidge, Director of STEM said ‘ the STEM pathways goes from strength to strength at the academy with negotiations in place to bring some world class facilities to our school that ensure that BCA remains the best choice for a STEM education in the North West. We are already receiving National recognition for our STEM provision and some ‘secret’ further developments will ensure our pupils have a first class STEM education to prepare them for an amazing career!

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Amazing experience for our STEM pathways pupils – Coding and digital media at SKY Academy in London.

An enthusiastic group of year 10 Creative Digital Media students visited the Sky Academy Careers Lab for a day of web app development and careers advice on how best to enter the booming digital media industry.  In this state of the art facility in West London our pupils were mentored by graduates and professionals from the STEM industry.

As part of the STEM experience students also visited ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ at Warner Bros. London, to learn about a wide range of creative careers within the British film. They worked in the special effects workshop and learnt about how those amazing scenes in the Harry Potter films are made using digital media.

Sky provided an inspirational day of activities including a Q&A session with their top software developer, a tour of the Sky Sports Studios and an afternoon working with Sky’s software graduates.

Next time we’re going during the football season se we can interview Thierry Henry!

This is just one of many fantastic STEM opportunities available at Beamont Collegiate Academy as we prepare you for an amazing career in a STEM industry.

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