Year 11 ESTEAM (Open to ALL Year 10 students)
11STEAM Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Ms S. Tomaz.
Recommended Prior Learning
E-STEAM stands for Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. Our E-STEAM programme will help you lead the way and future-proof yourself and stand out from the crowd.
● Open to ALL current Year 10 students even if they have not completed STEAM in Junior School
● This course is taught in 1 option
● Includes up to 17 credits at Level 2
● Mini-internship in an innovative company. Find out about ESTEAM Power-ed Internships here.
Innovation is significantly shaping our world having a transformative effect on the world -on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives. The future of work is becoming increasingly more difficult to accurately predict or even imagine. The speed of change also calls for an updated skillset, calling for workers to quickly adapt, to learn new approaches to challenges, to think more critically, and to collaborate.
Learners need not just knowledge, but also skills, attitudes and values to thrive in and shape their own future for a more empowered global citizenship. This has never been more evident than in the current pandemic.
Enterprise STEAM (E-STEAM) provides you with the opportunity to adopt an innovative mindset, develop 21st century skills further including their financial capabilities, business and entrepreneurship skills while having an impact in your community. This option line benefits from a combination of teachers and members of the business community to provide an experience that is both authentic and relevant to the world we live in. To support your growth and development in the E-STEAM field you will have the opportunity to take part in an internship and learn directly from Businesses and Industries while continuing to grow your Tech and Engineering skills.
Students drive their projects and have agency on what they choose to undertake. Also as part of this option students will complete work experience in a business/industry that aligns to their career pathway and project outcomes.
Assessments fit around students' project work, students will complete two compulsory standards and choose 2 more from other standards available from different learning areas as per list below, depending on the focus of their chosen projects. Throughout the programme students meet with their mentors which are aligned to their assessment choices and projects. These mentors are learning area specialist within the school.
Total credits available range from 11 to 13credits depending on students' choices.
The standards offered in this course may be altered at the discretion of the TIC of STEAM.
Course Overview
Term 1
Unit 1
Understanding yourself as an entrepreneur
Designing your career pathway, Linked in profile, CV building, interview skills
Personal finance as a school leaver
Investigate the Application of Motivation Theory in a business (L2, 3 credits)
AS90847 Investigate the application of motivation theory in a business (Level 2 Business Studies, Internal, 3 credits)
Term 2
Unit 2
Biomimicry: Design by Nature
Impact of Technology
Wearable Sculpture collaborative project
Think Global, Act Local
AS91734 Develop a collaborative response that promotes a sustainable future, in relation to a current issue (Level 2 Education for Sustainability, 4 credits)
and
AS91325 Produce a resolved work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions (Level 2 Visual Arts Internal, 4 credits)
or
AS91890 Conduct an inquiry to propose a digital technologies outcome (Level 2 Digital Technology Internal, 6 credits),
Term 3
Unit 3: Community Centred Enterprise
Developing a Social Entreprise using Design Thinking and Agile, Lean Canvas concepts
Apply Business knowledge to a critical problem(s) in a given large business complex
AS90845 Apply business knowledge to a critical problem(s) in a given large business context (Level 2 Business STudies, External, 4 credits)