Brislington
Enterprise College

Brislington Enterprise College has 1,485 secondary school places and 250 post-16 places. The new school opened in September 2008.

BEC is divided into a series of 'learning communities' and includes a 20-place unit for physically disabled children. Each of these mini-schools has its own director and staff. Tutor groups are replaced by ‘learning families’ of around 10 students, each with an adult ‘learning guide’. Students spend most of their time in their learning community but use shared areas for specialist subjects such as dance, PE and art.

At the heart of the new building is the Enterprise Learning Centre, a large space packed with computers and other electronic learning equipment to support the college’s Enterprise specialism. E-learning capabilities in the new-look college include:

• More than a thousand mobile electronic devices including laptops.
• Every student having their own mini-laptop by 2010.
• Fifteen students having Apple iPhones to access online learning 24/7 in a trial project.
• Every teacher having a Dell tablet linked to an electronic whiteboard so they can roam the classroom instead of having to stay close to the whiteboard.

Visit the school website http://www.because.org.uk/