Personal development at Horizon Community College extends the curriculum beyond the academic, technical and vocational providing our students with broader development of their interests and talents. We support learners in developing their character including their resilience, confidence and independence, ensuring they know how to stay physically and mentally healthy throughout. At every stage of our students’ journey, we provide an outstanding programme of careers and enterprise, preparing students for further education and next steps. In turn, students are prepared for life in modern Britain within all subject areas but additionally through an in-depth programme of citizenship and tutor period debate.
Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
Developing an understanding of the fundamental British Values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance.
Developing respectful, responsible, and active citizens with confidence, resilience and an in-depth knowledge of the world around them.
Providing and in-depth careers programme preparing our students for their next phase of educations, employment or training.
Developing and age appropriate understanding of healthy relationships.
Developing an understanding of the fundamental British Values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law and mutual respect and tolerance.
The first half term ended with an exciting focus week – Cyber Week, students were invited to take part in cryptic challenges, learn about jobs in cyber and take part in a hands-on CSI activity that was hosted virtually by Think Forensic. Students were involved in attending a crime scene, taking fingerprints, creating footprint moulds,…
On Wednesday 7th October 2020, as part of National Skills Day, the Careers and Enterprise Department have been working across the College to emphasise the skills that students use every day. They highlighted skills in every subject area across 40 different classrooms and involved over 1200 students. We wanted to document the variety of skills taking…
Tuesday 19th November saw Horizon CC represented by the STEM Club at The Royal Society in London at a specially arranged student conference. Founded in 1660 the Royal Society has been a place where scientists across the world have met to educate, meet and challenge each other. Our students got to experience that for themselves…
Over the last 2 weeks Horizon Students have been participating in events for Remembrance. On Thursday 5th November each year group had an extended assembly and we asked our students to “Remember Together” which was the Royal British Legions Campaign message this year. This year is the 100th anniversary of the 1st Armistice Day as well as remembering…
On Wednesday 23rd October the Year 9 Enterprise group hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning to the staff of Horizon. Students worked really hard to plan the event by researching recipes, baking, inviting the local press and advertising the event around school. The event went really well and was attended by two Macmillan support workers who…
On Wednesday 17th July, 363 Year 11 students took part in Horizon’s first ever Mock Interview Day. 80 professionals from 45 different businesses conducted a series of interviews to help our students prepare for the world of work and life beyond Horizon. It was an extremely successful day with the majority of students demonstrating how mature…
This half term has seen an all year group enterprise activity for the Y7 school hosted and held at Wentworth Woodhouse. This historic building is currently being renovated and will take 25 years to restore to its former glory at an estimated cost of £150 million pounds. Apart from its fantastic history it has and…
Last October all of the Y9 school were given the opportunity to participate in The Big Challenge a borough wide competition that challenged students to start their own business to sell a product or service. The Y9 students applied and were filtered down into the best ideas for entry. There were 7 teams initially and…
On Friday 17th May, 4 Y9 students visited the ASOS XPO Logistics site for a workplace visit. It was a reward for winning a competition earlier in the year, where they had to work out how to improve the efficiency of a warehouse operative’s day. As part of the visit they were given a full…
On the evening of 7th May the Careers and Enterprise Team hosted a Progression Pie and Pea Evening for parents and carers of Y7 and Y8 students. Parents and Carers are the key influences in our students lives and we want to equip them with the information and knowledge to help them support their children to…
On Friday the 12th April we opened our doors to 220 Year 6 students who join us in July for rollover. It was the culmination of a 6 week project in which students from The University Campus in Barnsley had been coaching year 6’s on the fundamentals of kick rounder’s with a final kick rounder’s event…
On Wednesday 3rd April 2019, some of our Y10 & Y11 students took part in the Sheffield Sharks events management project which concluded with them delivering an event at the Sheffield Sharks vs. Glasgow Rocks game. The students delivered the pre-game logistics including allocating tickets, selling merchandise, scanning tickets, playing music before the game and ensuring…
On 21st March 2019, eight Year 9 students travelled to The University of Sheffield for their third session of the Discover US programme. Discover US is an aspiration-raising programme for pupils in Years 9-11 who have the potential to access Higher Education but may not see it as a potential post-16 pathway. The University of…
On 20th March 2019 100 students from Year 8 took part in the Ryman National Enterprise Challenge as part of Careers & Enterprise curriculum. Students working in groups of 4 were given the chance to design a brand new mascot for the stationary company that is Ryman. The challenge was split into different sections with a…
On Thursday 14th March 22 Year 7 students who are currently taking part in the National Teen Tech awards competition visited the National College of High Speed Rail in Doncaster for an Innovation day. The day was designed to inspire the students and give them ideas to help them move forward in the competition and it…
Our She RA programme is in full swing, the latest element was an Alumni talk by one of our former students Rose Dyson. Rose presented her journey from Year 10 to becoming Founder and Creator of Pura Cosmetics. There are more activities planned to engage the group, build confidence and learn new skills.
On Wednesday 27th February our Year 11 “Made in Barnsley” students graduated from the 3 year “Better Learner Better Workers” Programme. The programme that targets students who have a keen interest in Engineering, Construction and Healthcare culminated in an awards ceremony at the prestigious Cutlers Hall in Sheffield. The evening began with an introduction from The…
Last Thursday saw the launch of an all school competition in partnership with Carlton Motor Sport Ltd/Deltastyling. This local Barnsley business has over 100 years’ combined experience in the manufacturing and fitting of aftermarket car parts and are a leading design house in this field. They take great pride in the quality of their products and the innovative range. They already sponsor…