Business, in a commercial landscape where the pace of change is ever increasing, offers the opportunity to acquire knowledge of the real world and analyse causes and effects on an individual, company and global scale.
Students will gain an in-depth understanding of why and how businesses operate through the internal functions of Finance, Marketing, HR and Operations and how they adapt to and interact with the many external influences on all stakeholders.
Creative and enterprising students are encouraged to develop key skills in critical thinking, communication, organisation, teamwork and problem solving, all of which are highly relevant in taking forward to further study and the future workplace.
Students follow the OCR GCSE syllabus with 5 hours of lessons per fortnight.
In Year 10 topic areas studied comprise
- Business activity
- Marketing
- Human Resources
In Year 11 topic areas studied comprise
- Operations
- Finance
- External influences on business
- The interdependent nature of business
Over the whole course students complete end of unit tests in class. Internal grade indicator exams are taken at the end of Year10 and a mock exam in December of Year 11. Final exams take place with 2 Papers sat at the end of Year 11.
Additional Opportunities
Business offers opportunities at KS5 to
- participate in an inter-school Young Enterprise initiative in which teams of students set up and manage their own business
- undertake an optional trip to New York and Washington as part of the school calendar.
