Extra Curricular Activities
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A wide range of activities take place at lunchtimes, after school and at weekends. These are carefully planned to enrich the curriculum, to provide additional challenges and to give students opportunities for different experience. They are run by teaching and support staff, with a particular emphasis on children's health and safety. Many are run on a voluntary basis some are sponsored by the Children’s University. If we cannot achieve numbers or sufficient money to cover a visit, it will be cancelled.
We see these extra-curricular activities as an integral and important part of the education of students at Bicester Community College and we welcome and value parental support.
Day/Evening Visits are a regular part of the curriculum, ranging from farms and reservoirs to churches and theatre, to museums and factories, to concerts and exhibitions.
Residential Courses are periodically available during term at one of the Oxfordshire Centres, at Hill End in Oxford, in North Devon, on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales and in Herefordshire. Students also take part in field-trips at home and abroad as part of their academic studies.
Activities Week takes place in July in the last week of term. Students have the opportunities in small groups to pursue one particular interest in some depth - e.g. golf, jewellery-making, cosmetics design, cycling, horse riding, visits abroad, musical, sporting activities, drama etc.
The Work Related Learning Programme and the Youth Award Scheme involves considerable extra-curricular activities.
Community Service is undertaken by most sixth formers, and other students take part in such activities from time to time.
Music, Dance and Drama concerts and productions are a regular feature of our annual calendar. Recent years have seen major productions of ‘The Wiz’, 'Tin Pan Ali', ‘Grease’, ‘Bugsy Malone’, The Sound of Music and Showstoppers (cabaret). GCSE groups perform regularly to audiences in preparation for practical examinations, and there are Christmas Carol Concerts and a regular programme of concerts each year.
The Library is an especially popular facility, open to students before and after school for reading, homework and research purposes. Computers and CD ROM facilities are available and a Homework Club operates after school hours. The Librarian runs a Share Scheme programme after school, encouraging reading with families.
The Young Enterprise Award Scheme enables sixth formers to gain experience in setting up and running a small business. Advisers from the Business Community meet with the groups to act as critical friends and to offer advice.
The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is open to students in Year 9 upwards and enables students to begin the Bronze Award and work their way through Silver and Gold Award in the sixth form.
