ASPIRE Curriculum
It is generally accepted that offering a wide choice of subjects allows students the chance to achieve in areas of interest, but success goes far beyond subject choice. The curriculum organisation at Beverly Hills Girls High School through a vertically integrated innovative timetable system provides such choice. More importantly, it also provides for:
- Units of Study that cater for specialist interests
- Opportunities to extend and enrich personal learning pathways
- Placement at appropriate Levels to suit personal performance
All of these benefits lead to maximum student success and confidence, which in turn foster student effort for greater achievement.
What is ASPIRE?
The subjects students study at Beverly Hills Girls High School is chosen within a system called ASPIRE. ASPIRE is our unique curriculum structure which is the embodiment and mechanism for future ready learning Years 7 to 10. ASPIRE is a Unitised Vertically Integrated Semester System.
This means that students will choose subjects at the end of each semester i.e. Term 2 and Term 4 rather than each year. The subjects they choose will be packaged in Units of Study (a Unit is studied for two hours per week for 20 weeks ie. one 80 minute period and one 40 minute period each week for 2 terms). Students must take 13 Units of Study to fill their timetable for the week.
Within this model, students have more variety in their study because they will be able to choose an individual pattern of study based on their own interests and abilities. Although they will have a good deal of choice in what they study, there are some restrictions imposed by the Education system.
Further information
NESA (NSW Education Standards Authority), which issues the Record of School Achievement and Higher School Certificate, states the number of hours and patterns of study you must undertake in eight Key Learning Areas (KLAs).