Travel and Tourism at Beckfoot Oakbank

We ensure all students succeed in Travel and Tourism through creating lessons that provide essential specialist knowledge of the wide variety of businesses in the travel and tourism sector.

Students will be able to acquire sector-specific applied knowledge through vocational contexts by studying the aims,
products and services of different travel and tourism organisations, their use of consumer technologies, the features of tourist destinations, how organisations meet customer needs and preferences, and the influences on global travel and tourism as part of their learning.

We believe that travel and tourism is a remarkable subject to develop transferable skills, practice and expand interpersonal skills, learn to critically analyse information, and accurately apply their knowledge gain to plan holidays for specific visitor types.

Enrichment

Students have access to a wide range of enrichment activities. These include:

  • National Science Week competitions
  • Lego robotics club
  • STEM Year 7 Science Club
  • Gardening club
  • Access to the library
  • Cross curricular reading clubs: Royal Society book club

Assessment

Summative and formative assessment will be used throughout KS3 to monitor pupil progress and further inform teaching and learning.

KS4 Specification

Careers

We make links to Careers in Travel and Tourism, by integrating job examples into our schemes of work for students to consider the fields that link to the subject such as cabin crew, hotel management, resort representative, travel agency manager or visitor attraction management.